Giang Nguyen-Dien
پژوهشگر ارشد · Asian American studies
Washington University in St. Louisمعرفی
Dr. Giang Nguyen-Dien is a Postdoctoral Fellow in American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, specializing in the intersections of race, affect, and imperial legacies within Asian American and refugee contexts.
Her academic foundation includes:
- Ph.D. in American Studies, University of Kansas
- Sias Graduate Fellowship at KU's Hall Center for Humanities
Her research investigates how Vietnamese refugee experiences embody the emotional afterlives of war and empire, particularly examining melancholia, hauntology, and transpacific critiques. Her current book manuscript Feeling History: The Specter of War, Geography of Violence, and Vietnamese Refugee Affective Worlding theorizes refugee feelings as frameworks for affective decolonization across geographies of violence.
Recent publications analyze the spectral presence of war in refugee subjectivity and the contradictions of U.S. benevolent imperialism in Midwestern resettlement contexts, revealing how racial trauma manifests through emotional landscapes.
Her recognition includes:
- Sias Graduate Fellow
She actively contributes to collaborative scholarship through digital humanities projects documenting Midwestern Asian experiences and documentary filmmaking on racial trauma, while developing interdisciplinary frameworks connecting refugee studies with affect theory and critical geography.
Dr. Nguyen-Dien's work emerges from research teams focused on transnational refugee narratives and digital archiving of diasporic experiences.
