Matalia Moroz, Published: June 08, 2003 Review of the book "The Gangster We Are All Looking For" by Le Thi Diem Thuy


Catherine H. Nguyen

catheringuyen [at] ucla [dot] edu


Languages:  English, French, and Vietnamese

Research Interests:  Vietnamese diasporic literature; Asian American literature; Francophone literature; Diaspora and transnationalism; Im/migration and exile; 20th century French thought; Postcolonial studies; Citizenship and hospitality; Alterity; Spectrality.


Catherine Nguyen has studied Comparative Literature during her undergraduate studies at University of California, Irvine, as well as abroad at the Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille I, for her Masters.  She entered the UCLA doctoral program in Comparative Literature in 2007 and is currently working broadly in Vietnamese diasporic literatures.  Specifically, Catherine seeks to examine the work of mourning and the processes of hospitality in alternative forms of kinship found in Vietnamese diasporic literature.


2012 Conferences

  • "War Baby or Transnational Adoptee?: The Politics of Operation Babylift," AAAS 2012 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 11-14, 2012.


2011 Conferences

  • "Geographies of Vietnamese Diasporic Poetry," 'Re-SEAing Southeast Asian American Studies,' 3rd Tri-Annual Interdisciplinary Southeast Asians in the Diaspora Conference, San Francisco State University, March 10-11, 2011.
  • "Vietnam Haunting: The Vietnamese-American Body in Mukerjee's 'Fathering,'" AAAS 2011 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, May 18-21,  2011.
  • "Diasporic Visions and Poetic Mappings of Viet Nam," PAMLA 2011 Annual Conference, Scripps College, November 5-6, 2011.

 

2010 Conferences

  • "The Butterfly Effect: Vietnamese American History and Time in the gangster we are all looking for," Beyond Borders: Alternative Voices and Histories of the Vietnamese Diaspora Conference-Workshop, University of Washington, Seattle, March 5-7, 2010.
  • "Exilic, Diasporic Paris: Locating the Vietnamese in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt," ACLA 2010 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 1-4, 2010.
  • "Framing Portraitures: Tran Anh Hung's Vietnamese Transnational Cinematic Subjectivity," 6th Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference, Ho Chi Minh City, VN, July 1-4, 2010.




(Image courtesy of Natalia Moroz, Woodcut for the Los Angeles Times Book Review of The Gangster We Are All Looking For by Le Thi Diem Thuy, Published: June 08, 2003, http://www.nataliamoroz.com/LATimes.html)