VAALA Staff & Board Members
 

LAN DUONG, Ph.D. - Board Director

Lan Duong is an assistant professor in the Media and Cultural Studies Department at UC Riverside. She is working on a book entitled Family Binds: Betrayal and Loyalty in Vietnam and the Diaspora. The book explores the films and literature of the Vietnamese and Vietnamese diaspora through the theme of treason and the practices of collaboration. Duong’s second book project, “From the National to The Transnational: Cultural Revolutions of Vietnamese Cinema,” examines Vietnamese cinema from its inception to the present-day. Her research interests include transnational feminism, postcolonial theory, youth culture, gender, sexuality and queer diasporas. Her critical works can be found in “Amerasia,” “The Journal of Asian Cinema” and “Transnational Feminism in Film and Media.” She is also a poet and has been published in Watermark, Tilting the Continent, Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Poetry and Crab Orchard Review.