Lan Duong

About

Lan Duong, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Southern California. Her research areas include feminist film theory, postcolonial literature, Asian American cinema, and genre studies. She is the author of Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism, and her second book project, Transnational Vietnamese Cinemas and the Archives of Memory, examines Vietnamese cinema from its inception to the present day through the lens of the archival site. Dr. Duong’s critical works have been published in various academic journals and anthologies, and she has coedited Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora: Troubling Borders in Literature and Art. She is a Founding Member of the Critical Refugee Studies Collective, serving as the website editor and co-editor for the series Critical Refugee Studies at the University of California Press. Additionally, she is a poet with her debut collection, Nothing Follows, published by Texas Tech University Press.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Sociology
• Political Science
• History
• Media studies
• Law
• Linguistics
• Art
• Visual arts
• Archaeology

Selected publications

• Feminist Refugee Epistemology: Reading Displacement in Vietnamese and Syrian Refugee Art

  Signs · 2018-02-08 · 71 citations

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  Applying a transnational feminist lens to refugee studies, we introduce the concept of feminist refugee epistemology, which posits that gendered displacement is not only about social disorder and interruption but also about social reproduction and innovation. Fusing the critical with the creative, we conceptualize refugee artwork as a critical practice that allows for new forms of knowledge that would otherwise not be produced or shared. In this article, we analyze the artworks of Vietnamese and…

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• Departures

  2022 · 28 citations

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• Departures

  University of California Press eBooks · 2022 · 7 citations

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  Departures supports, contextualizes, and advances the field of critical refugee studies by providing a capacious account of its genealogy, methods, and key concepts as well as its premises, priorities, and possibilities. The book outlines the field's main tenets, questions, and concerns and offers new approaches that integrate theoretical rigor and policy considerations with refugees' rich and complicated lived worlds. It also provides examples of how to link communities, movements, networks, ar…

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• Archives of Memory: Vietnamese American Films, Past and Present

  Film Quarterly · 2020 · 4 citations

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  Vietnamese American filmmaking must be seen in the context of a community's diasporic formations. As such, it maps out a politics of representation that encapsulates the issues of community and history that invariably striate the ways in which Vietnamese American films and videos have been produced, distributed, received, and archived. This article focuses on the role of the Viet Film Fest, in Orange Country, California, as a major site for the archiving of South Vietnamese and Vietnamese Americ…

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• Through a Trans-Vietnamese Feminist Lens

  2017-01-01 · 4 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Yến Lê Espiritu

  8 shared

• Nikolas Giakoumidis

  1 shared

• Khatharya Um

  University of California, Berkeley

  1 shared

• Lila Sharif

  1 shared

• Victor Bascara

  University of Guam

  1 shared

• Lawrence-Minh B�i Davis

  1 shared

• Catzie Vilayphonh

  1 shared

• Yền Lê Espiritu

  1 shared

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