Current Position:
Assistant Professor of American Literature & Ethnic Studies
Field Of Study:
Vietnam War literature; 20th-century & contemporary American literature, with an emphasis on race, ethnicity, and immigration issues; literary translation
Courses:
SPRING 2013
LIT 596: Graduate Independent Study
Vietnam & the Vietnamese Immigrant Experience in Literary Imagination
LIT 369: Short Fiction/Honors
American Short Stories since 1945
LIT 291: American Literature II
FALL 2011-FALL 2012
LIT 343: African American Literature
The New Negro: Voices of the Harlem Renaissance
LIT 201: Introduction to Literary Studies
LIT 301: Studies in Literary Forms—Fiction
Twentieth-Century Multicultural American Fiction
LIT 304: U.S. Writers of Colors
Major Themes & Issues in Asian American Prose Narratives
LIT 300: Applied Literary Criticism
Education:
Ph.D. in American Literature, Texas Tech University, 2011
M.A. in English, Middle Tennessee State University, 2006
Post-M.Ed. Curricular Training in Literary Studies, Troy University, 2003-2004
M.Ed. in English/Language Arts, Troy University, 2003
B.A. in English (Linguistics concentration), University of Da Lat, Vietnam, 2000
Teaching Experience:
At Texas Tech University
Fall 2006-Spring 2011: Graduate Instructor
At Middle Tennessee State University
Fall 2004-Spring 2006: Graduate Writing Assistant,Writing Center; Research Assistant
At Troy University (main campus)
Spring 2002-Spring 2004: Instructor of ESL, International Programs
At University of Da Lat
Summer 2004 & 2007: Visiting lecturer, Department of Foreign Languages
Fall 2000-Spring 2001: Instructor of English as a Foreign Language
