Flashpoints for Asian American Studies

by Schlund-Vials, Cathy; Nguyen, Viet Thanh

• ISBN13: 9780823278619
• ISBN10: 0823278611
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-10-03
• Publisher: Fordham University Press

Author Biography

Cathy J. Schlund-Vials is Professor of English and Asian/Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. She is also the director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute (UConn). She is the author of Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing and War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work.

Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as the short story collection, The Refugees. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.