[2] He was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017. “Author Viet Thanh Nguyen and How Winning the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Changed His Life,” Orange Coast Magazine, December 27, 2016 129. The “culture wars” around identity reached their peak in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with opponents of so-called “identity politics” arguing that such politics threatened to disunite America. He is also the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, and the short-story collection The Refugees. ... University of Southern California, 1997-2003 ... ever since teaching several multimedia courses at USC and being involved with the Visible Knowledge Project of Georgetown University. [2], His family later moved to San Jose, California, where they opened up a Vietnamese grocery store, one of the first of its kind in the area. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s latest work is a nonfiction companion to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Courses back. [2] In an opinion column in the New York Times, Nguyen discussed having been a refugee and characterized refugees as heroic.[29]. This course provides an introduction to the war’s history in order for today’s Americans to understand some of the key factors leading the US into its current geopolitical situation…The course is a multidisciplinary, multicultural and international overview of the war’s history and its afterlife in American and Vietnamese memory…The course corrects a fundamental flaw in the American pedagogy and scholarship on Vietnam, which mostly sees the country, people, and war purely from the perspective of American self-interest and ethnocentrism. [4 ½ min read] By Susan Bell - November 15, 2018. His novel The Sympathizer won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards. September 30, 2016. USC Dornsife’s Viet Thanh Nguyen wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction April 18, 2016. The contemporary novel is a vehicle that helps us understand these issues of difference and perception. More BONUS – Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks with Stuart Carson for The Daily Trojan about Asian American anger, identity, and more. A big congratulations to Viet Thanh Nguyen, who is joining the Pulitzer Prize Board as its first Asian-American and Vietnamese-American member. In particular, this course is concerned with the novel’s development as a response to traumatic events in American history and changes in American society…, Literatures of America Fall 2003 syllabus, December 5, 2020 Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer and the Aerol Arnold Chair of English at USC. Public talk. ... See all courses “10 Romans Essentials,” Madame Figaro, August 18, 2017 18. The USC Bedrosian Center acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional caretakers of the Los Angeles basin and Southern Channel Islands. “Reckoning with the Vietnam War,” The Takeaway, PRI and WNYC, May 24, 2016 162. “Viet Thanh Nguyen, Amerikaner,” Welt, August 12, 2017 20. In the past forty years of Asian American studies, it’s arguable that essentialism—the belief that there is such a thing as an Asian American—dominated and defined the field for two decades. I think, in general, I’ve been fortunate because I have a place to weather COVID and I can go out and take walks. Students interviewed survivors of the Vietnam War and shared those interviews on the course’s evolving archive of memories, An Other War Memorial. Are you a student and not sure about the proper way of communicating with him or other professors? Pulitzer-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen will read from recent work. Viet Thanh Nguyen is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.His novel, “The Sympathizer,” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2016. Professor of English, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Professor of American studies and ethnicity, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Aerol Arnold Chair of English. This event is free and open to the public. Courses back. In 2002, Nguyen published a treatise entitled Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press). [26], Nguyen is the editor of The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, which includes essays by 17 fellow refugee writers from Mexico, Bosnia, Iran, Afghanistan, Soviet Ukraine, Hungary, Chile, and Ethiopia, among other countries. Viet Thanh Nguyen, the author of the 2016 Pulizer Prize-winning novel THE SYMPATHIZER and the 2017 short story collection THE REFUGEES, gives a lecture/reading that explores the concept of sanctuary. Viet Thanh Nguyen Official page, Someone Else Besides You. [14] The New York Times included The Sympathizer among the Book Review's "Editors' Choice" selection of new books when the book debuted,[15] and in its list of "Notable Books of 2015". More BONUS – Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen. Courses; ... Viet Thanh Nguyen in Conversation with Jose Antonio Vargas. In Fall 2015 he will be teaching the introduction to literary and cultural theory for all English and Creative Writing graduate students. He becomes USC Dornsife’s 24th faculty member elected to the prestigious academy, which honors exceptional scholars, leaders, artists and… Viet Thanh Nguyen Official Page, Fatherland. Strategic essentialism has dominated the academic field since the early 1990s, and arguably still does today, the principle that even if there is no such thing as an Asian American, the concept is crucial and useful as a mode of analysis and activism. [6], Nguyen was born in Ban Me Thuot, Vietnam in 1971,[7] the son of refugees from North Vietnam who moved south in 1954. vnguyen@usc.edu Viet Thanh Nguyen Reading and Lecture To add this event to your calendar, click the date(s) below. [5] Nguyen is also a regular contributor, op-ed columnist for The New York Times, covering immigration, refugees, politics, culture and South East Asia. Viet Thanh Nguyen Official Page, Look At Me. Department of English [27]. New York, New York 10003, (212) 420-8585, To invite Viet to do a reading or lecture, please contact Kevin Mills of the Tuesday Agency, 132 1/2 East Washington Sunday, December 1, 2019 12/01/2019 17:45:00 12/01/2019 17:45:00 6 LARB Luminary Evening with Viet Thanh Nguyen Los Angeles Review of Books is pleased to invite you to an evening with VIET THANH NGUYEN Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer and The Displaced. BONUS – Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen. Viet Thanh Nguyen (born March 13, 1971) is a Vietnamese-American novelist. The Sympathizer. Viet Thanh Nguyen has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [2], Nguyen's non-fiction articles and essays have appeared in journals and books, including PMLA, American Literary History, Western American Literature, positions: east asia cultures critique, The New Centennial Review, Postmodern Culture, The Japanese Journal of American Studies, and Asian American Studies After Critical Mass. USC Dornisfe’s Viet Thanh Nguyen delivers an acclaimed nonfiction work on the Vietnam War that raises questions about the ethics of memory as he explores how different countries remember the conflict. Tag: Viet Thanh Nguyen. [1] The novel has also won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. [9][1] He went on to receive his Ph.D. in English from Berkeley in May 1997. We will explore the legacy of this early identity as it has evolved into the 19th and 20th centuries, and we will examine how our contemporary notions of cultural difference concerning other issues besides race—feminism, homosexuality, foreigners (legal and undocumented), and the poor—find some of their origins in this legacy. 1, Two Rivers: New Vietnamese Writing from America and Viet Nam (Summer, 2002), pp. The collection includes the following stories: Translated on Damau.org on October 8, 2006, 3rd Place Winner, 2011 Winter Fiction Contest, 2010 Nelson Algren Short Story Awards Finalist, This page was last edited on 22 October 2020, at 08:35. [1] Nguyen has also co-edited a treatise entitled Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field (University of Hawaii Press, 2014) along with Janet Hoskins. The primary concern of the course is to demonstrate the dynamic relationship between Asian American literature and the histories of Asians in the United States, and the United States in Asia. Nguyen and illustrator Thi Bui, along with their respective children, collaborated on a children's book titled Chicken of the Sea. Along the way, we will read some of the most important and influential books and essays in memory studies…, This course is a multidisciplinary overview of Asian American studies and what I will call its three phases of intellectual formation: essentialism, strategic essentialism, and post-essentialism. [9] He often enjoyed reading literature about the Vietnam War, preferably those from the Vietnamese perspectives, which were rather rare at the time in comparison with the overwhelming amount of the American narratives. On memory in general, the course traces the arc of memory studies, which gained momentum after the 1960s and has culminated in what some critics call a “memory boom” and a “memory industry.” We begin with Chris Marker’s premise, that “the function of remembering is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining,” and consider the ethical, political, and aesthetic challenges for remembering and forgetting, both of which are necessary to confront war and its related traumas. The 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, one of America’s most prestigious literary honors, has been awarded to Viet Thanh Nguyen, associate professor of English and American studies and ethnicity at USC Dornsife. The community celebration offers music, dance, art, speaker series,… (read more), Viet Thanh Nguyen Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer and the Aerol Arnold Chair of English at USC. Asian American Literature Fall 2009 syllabus, Asian American Literature Fall 2007 syllabus, This course examines American national identity, especially as it is formed and changes during periods of intense conflict and stress. Nguyen has also been a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (2011–2012), the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2008–2009) and the Fine Arts Work Center (2004–2005). [9] Nguyen's family then moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania until 1978. [3][4] He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [16] The novel also made it onto numerous other "Books of the Year" lists, including those of The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Slate.com, Amazon.com and The Washington Post. Viet Thanh Nguyen (* 13. března 1971) je americký spisovatel vietnamského původu. [25], Nguyen released a book of short stories, published by Grove Press in February 2017 entitled The Refugees. Professor of English, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Professor of American studies and ethnicity, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Aerol Arnold Chair of English. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer (Corsair, 2016) is a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Manoa — viet thanh nguyen (@viet_t_nguyen) May 24, 2016 The language you use to describe the role that art and culture play is straight out of the world of international relations. In Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (Harvard University Press, 2016), USC Dornsife’s Viet Thanh Nguyen says he wants readers to understand the gravity of war while remaining aware of possibilities for… Special bonus track! April 18, 2016 [17], Nguyen's short fiction has been published in Best New American Voices 2007 ("A Correct Life: Một Cuộc Sống Đứng Đắn"),[18] Manoa ("Better Homes and Gardens"),[19] Narrative Magazine ("Someone Else Besides You",[20] "Arthur Arellano"[21] and "Fatherland",[22] which was a prize winner in the 2011 Winter Fiction Contest), TriQuarterly ("The War Years" - Issue 135/136), The Good Men Project ("Look At Me")[23] the Chicago Tribune ("The Americans", also a 2010 Nelson Algren Short Story Awards finalist),[24] and Gulf Coast, where his story won the 2007 Fiction Prize. Viet Thanh Nguyen is a critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times, a contributing editor for the New York Times, and an associate professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at USC. Proponents, of course, saw the recognition of diverse identities through multiculturalism as being fundamental to American unity. Sunday, December 1, 2019 12/01/2019 17:45:00 12/01/2019 17:45:00 6 LARB Luminary Evening with Viet Thanh Nguyen Los Angeles Review of Books is pleased to invite you to an evening with VIET THANH NGUYEN Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer and The Displaced. This course is a selective examination of the major works, authors, and themes of Asian American literature, from the mid-20th century until the contemporary moment. Viet Thanh Nguyen Photo by Clemson New Room via Flickr Creative Commons. Viet Thanh Nguyen. “Cinq beaux romans pour la rentrée,” Le Monde, August 24, 2017 16. Nguyen Thanh Viet Automation Engineer at Anh Phat Company Limited Bachelor at HCMC University of Technology Vietnam 26 connections In Spring 2015 he is teaching an undergraduate course on “Asian American Literature” and a graduate seminar on Asian American studies. [10] While growing up in San Jose, Nguyen attended St. Patrick School, a Catholic elementary school, and went on to Bellarmine College Preparatory. More The Sympathizer. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author makes the cover of the respected magazine with a powerful and deeply personal essay on immigration. 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The Nation and its Others in American Literature and Film, The Literatures of America: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. NGUYEN • curriculum vitae, 3/8/2018 27/59 159. Viet Thanh Nguyen: It’s been difficult for everybody. Conflict and stress existed at the origins of American society, in the nexus of cultural confrontations between English settlers, native Americans, and African slaves, as we will see with Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography. Josh Kun, director of the School of Communication and chair in cross-cultural communication at USC Annenberg; and Viet Thanh Nguyen, University Professor of English, American studies and ethnicity at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences — both MacArthur Fellows — … He becomes USC Dornsife’s 24th faculty member elected to the prestigious academy, which honors exceptional scholars, leaders, artists and innovators, and engages them in sharing … Tuesday, November 14, 2017 11/14/2017 00:00:00 11/14/2017 00:00:00 6 Viet Thanh Nguyen Reading and Lecture Viet Thanh Nguyen, the author of the 2016 Pulizer Prize-winning novel THE SYMPATHIZER and the 2017 short story collection THE REFUGEES, gives a lecture/reading that explores the concept … To add this event to your calendar, click the date(s) below. “Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Latest Work is a Nonfiction Companion to His Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel,” USC Dornsife, January 3, 2017 128. Viet Thanh Nguyen Official page, Arthur Arellano. Courses; ... Viet Thanh Nguyen in Conversation with Jose Antonio Vargas. That year, he moved to Los Angeles for a teaching position as an assistant professor at the University of Southern California in both the English Department, and in the American Studies and Ethnicity Department. The Sympathizer. Novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen has become the first Asian American member of the Pulitzer Prize Board in its 103-year-history, according to Kirkus Reviews. Viet Thanh Nguyen has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [9][1], In addition to teaching and writing, Nguyen also serves as cultural critic-at-large for The Los Angeles Times and is an editor of diaCRITICS, a blog for the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network. Santa Cruz Sentinel, May 25, 2016 160. “Author Viet Thanh Nguyen and How Winning the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Changed His Life,” Orange Coast Magazine, December 27, 2016 129. [2], Nguyen then briefly attended the University of California campuses at Riverside and Los Angeles before finally deciding to finish his studies at Berkeley, from where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa[11] in May 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) [1] Multimedia has also been a key part of his teaching: In a recent course on the American War in Viet Nam, he and his students created An Other War Memorial, which won a grant from the Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching and the USC Provost’s Prize for Teaching with Technology. Since this period, identity-based movements and politics have arguably moved from being emergent or dissident political phenomena to being part of the cultural dominant of the United States and of late capitalism. On April 18, 2016, The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Pulitzer Prize in the fiction category. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s first novel, The Sympathizer, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, in addition to the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Literary Excellence from the American Library Association, and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Fiction from the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association. Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. [1], Cristina Mari Arreola (April 18, 2016). Email, For review copies or bookstore events, contact publicity@groveatlantic.com for The Sympathizer or The Refugees and Margaux Leonard of Harvard University Press for Nothing Ever Dies, Literary, translation, and film rights are handled by Nat Sobel at Sobel Weber Associates, 146 East 19 Street In the last decade, post-essentialism has emerged through various attempts to criticize the necessity and utility of Asian American identity and formation. "[2] Kirkus Reviews has also called the book "a powerful reflection on how we choose to remember and forget. In Spring 2016, he will teach an undergraduate general education course on the Vietnam War and memory, through American Studies and Ethnicity. BONUS – Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen. In this course, we will read a wide range of such reconsiderations; we will also consider some texts, past and present, that argue for the necessity of identity. Subscribe to E-news USC Dornsife’s Viet Thanh Nguyen wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Viet Thanh Nguyen is a University Professor, Aerol Arnold Chair of English, and Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Je prominentním členem Americké akademie umění a věd, a také získal stipendium nadace MacArthur Foundation a Guggenheimovo stipendium. “Viet Thanh Nguyen: Raconter ma version de la guerre du Vietnam,” La Fringale Culturelle, August 20, 2017 17. Viet Thanh Nguyen (born March 13, 1971) is a Vietnamese-American novelist. ... University of Southern California Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall 201E Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626. 15. USC Dornsife’s Viet Thanh Nguyen wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Event Details [SAN FRANCISCO]: City Arts & Lectures presents Social Studies / Viet Thanh Nguyen Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 7:30pm This is a past event. Viet Thanh Nguyen Official Page, A Correct Life. Chicken of the Sea by Viet Thanh Nguyen and Ellison Nguyen A Reading and Conversation with the Authors and Illustrators Sunday, November 1, at 11 a.m. September 30, 2016. 14, No. By Susan Bell - April 18, 2016 USC Event Calendar things to do and USC Event Calendar events, powered by Localist. In this collection, Viet Thanh Nguyen begins to assemble one.” [1], His teaching and service awards include the Mellon Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students, the Albert S. Raubenheimer Distinguished Junior Faculty Award for outstanding research, teaching and service, the General Education Teaching Award, and the Resident Faculty of the Year Award. These attempts include poststructuralist critiques of the field and efforts to expand it transnationally and cross-racially, as well as efforts to foreground issues of ideology and political practice over identity, foregrounding pressing issues like war, violence, religion, queerness, imperialism and indigeneity…, Readings in Asian American Studies Fall 2010 syllabus, Readings in Asian American Studies Fall 2005 syllabus. He has an ongoing interest in multimedia and pedagogy, ever since teaching several multimedia courses at USC and being involved with the Visible Knowledge Project of Georgetown University. Community with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Associate Professor of English . When: Thursday, October 26 at 7:00 p.m. Where: Presidents Hall. Since the new social movements of the 1960s, “identity” has been a key locus for political organization, social mobilization, and cultural production. Viet Thanh Nguyen. His other books include The Refugees (forthcoming from Grove Press, Feb. 2017); Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (Harvard University Press, 2016), a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction; […] “Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Latest Work is a Nonfiction Companion to His Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel,” USC Dornsife, January 3, 2017 128. Ultimately, the proposition this course puts forth is that the aesthetics of Asian American literature is inseparable from the politics of Asian American experiences; this intersection between aesthetics and politics is one important site where Asian American culture and identity are formed. From Viet Thanh Nguyen's website, vietnguyen.info. Some of the fields we will traverse include ethnic, American, queer, postcolonial, feminist and literary studies, keeping in mind as we do so that many of these disciplines and fields are also engaged in contesting the unacknowledged and unmarked identity formations of dominant cultures. He is the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002) and the novel The Sympathizer, from Grove/Atlantic (2015). Viet Thanh has 4 jobs listed on their profile. September 27, 2016. He becomes USC Dornsife’s 24th faculty member elected to the prestigious academy, which honors exceptional scholars, leaders, artists and innovators, and engages them in sharing … Featuring Ellison Nguyen, Hien Bui-Stafford, Sumun L. Pendakur, (Moderator), Thi Bui, and Viet Thanh Nguyen USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance Fall Performance Friday, November 6, at 5 p.m. Join us for a timely conversation on race, representation, and the arts between actor John Cho (Better Luck Tomorrow, American Pie, Harold & Kumar, and Star Trek) and Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer). Monuments Project: Expanding the American Story, Catch Viet at one of these appearances in the coming months and say hello! Pulitzer-Prize winning expert in Asian-American literature and culture, race and ethnicity in the U.S., refugees. In particular, the shifting function of Asian immigrants and Asian Americans in U.S. culture and economy will be a focus for the course as we examine how Asian American literary concerns and styles have evolved with that shifting function. [2] The book additionally won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from an American Author from the Mystery Writers of America, and was a finalist in the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. According to Nguyen's website, the book Nothing Ever Dies "examines how the so-called Vietnam War has been remembered by many countries and people, from the US to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and South Korea. Essentialism is hardly over, but still continues as a powerful force in the field of Asian American studies, in community politics, in new ethnic formations, in organizing, and so on. 404D Taper Hall USC Dornsife’s Viet Thanh Nguyen wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction He is recognized for his first novel, The Sympathizer, which explores the Vietnam War from multiple perspectives. Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer and the Aerol Arnold Chair of English at USC. [2], Nguyen is one of the contributing authors of A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross-Cultural Collision and Connection published by OV Books, Other Voices, Inc. in May 2008. Or at least that is what USC professor Viet Thanh Nguyen thinks. LARB Luminary Evening with Viet Thanh Nguyen To add this event to your calendar, click the date(s) below. USC Dornsife’s Viet Thanh Nguyen wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction He is recognized for his first novel, The Sympathizer, which explores the Vietnam War from multiple perspectives. University of Southern California Viet Thanh Nguyen, Aerol Arnold Chair of English and professor of English, American studies and ethnicity and comparative literature, has been selected as a 2017 fellow of the MacArthur Foundation. September 27, 2016. “We are delighted to welcome [Nguyen] to the [Board]”, said Pulitzer co-chair Stephen Engelberg in an official press release. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. (Photo courtesy of Viet Thanh Nguyen) Asian Americans should be more angry. [1] Nguyen's debut novel, The Sympathizer, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction among other accolades, including the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from an American Author from the Mystery Writers of America, and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Fiction from the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association. In contrast, this courses stresses the diversity of American experiences, the importance of Vietnamese points of view, and the existence of international actors in the war who were neither American nor Vietnamese. 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