Gender and Women's Studies

Fiona Ngô

Fiona Ngô is an Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies. Her research interests include comparative ethnic studies, mixed-race and transnational identity, imperialism and U.S. culture, Vietnamese/American and Southeast Asian/American studies, gender studies, queer studies, U.S. cultural and intellectual history, modernisms, musical cultures, performance studies, and critical and cultural theory. 

Education

2003     University of California, Irvine, Ph.D., History; Critical Theory Emphasis

1998     University of California, Irvine, M.A., History; Graduate Feminist Emphasis

1994     University of California, Irvine, B.A., History

1992     University of California, Irvine, B.A., English

Academic Employment

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

2005-06    University of Illinois, Postdoctoral Fellow, Asian American Studies Program

2003-05   University of Oregon, Visiting Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies Program

2002-03    Loyola Marymount University, Visiting Lecturer, Program in American Cultures

Selected Publications

“A Chameleon’s Fate: Transnational Mixed-Race Vietnamese Identities,” Amerasia Journal 31.2 (2005) 51-62.

“The Anxiety over Borders,” Embodiments of Asian Pacific Islander Sexuality, eds. Gina Masequesmay and Sean Metzger.

Works in Progress

Imperial Blues: Travel and Transnationality in the Age of Jazz (book manuscript)

Bodies of War: Deconstructing Histories of the U.S. War in Southeast Asia (book manuscript)

Courses Taught

Asian American Popular Culture; Trans Bodies and Politics; Transnational Sexualities, Asian American Gender and Sexuality; The Politics of Cultural Representation; Introduction to African American Studies; Introduction to Ethnic Studies; Dialogics, Race, Culture, and Identity; Introduction to (Dis)Ability Studies and Theories of the Body; Praxis: Theories of Race and Art; Introduction to Hmong/American and Vietnamese/American Studies; Race, Masculinity, and Film; Race and Sexuality in the 20th Century; Civil Rights and Resistances; U.S. Empire; Introduction to Asian American Studies; Ethnic Studies Proseminar; Theories of Race and Ethnicity.