Gender and Women's Studies

Mimi Nguyen

Mimi Nguyen is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies.  She is completing her first book, Representing Refugees, and is co-editor and contributor to Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America.  Her research interests include transnational feminist cultural studies; science and technology studies; fashion, citizenship and transnationality; and Asian American, queer, and punk subcultures.

Education

 

2004       Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies, Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality

1997      M.A., New York University, America Studies

1995      B.A. University of California, Berkeley, Women's  Studies

  

Academic Employment

2006-          University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign -- Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Asian American Studies

2004-2006   University of Michigan, Ann Arbor -- Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies

 

Selected Publications

Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America, co-edited collection with Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. Includes chapter, “Bruce Lee I Love You: Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Queer Superstardom of JJ Chinois.”

"Thoughts on Afropunk." In Youth Subcultures: Exploring Underground America, edited by Arielle Greenberg. New York: Longman. Fall 2006.

“'In the arms of Pirates, Under the bodies of Sailors:' Diaspora, Desire, and Danger in Nguyen Tan Hoang's PIRATED!” In Charlie Don't Surf: Four Vietnamese American Artists, an exhibition catalogue featuring Nguyen Tan Hoang. Curated by Viet Le for Centre A. Vancouver. 2005.

“Queer Cyborgs and New Mutants: Race, Sexuality and Prosthetic Sociality in Digital Space.” In AsianAmerica.net, edited by Rachel Lee and Sau-Ling Wong. New York: Routledge Press, 2003. pp. 281-305.

“Asiatic Geekgirl Agitprop from Paper to Pixels.” In Technicolor: Race, Technology and Everyday Life, edited by Thuy Linh Tu and Alondra Nelson. New York: New York University Press, 2001. pp. 177-190.

Works in Progress

Representing Refugees (tentative title), book manuscript

 

Courses Taught

Asian/American Cultural Studies; Introduction to Feminist Theory; The Politics of Fashion; Gender, Race, and Sex in Popular Culture; Bodies + Machines: Race, Gender, and Technology; Lesbian and Gay Perspectives on Media (Queer Cultural Studies)

Graduate Courses

Transnational Subjects of Feminism in an Era of Globalization; Graduate Seminar on Theories of Feminism