Mimi Thi Nguyen
| Mimi Thi Nguyen | |
|---|---|
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| Born | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
| Occupation | Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies |
| Ethnicity | Vietnamese American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Notable works | Evolution of a Race Riot zine |
Mimi Thi Nguyen (née Thanh-Huong Thi Nguyen; born in 1974) is a Vietnamese-born American scholar,[1] punk[2] and zine author.[3]
Biography
Born in 1974 in Ho Chi Minh City to Hiep and Lien Nguyen, Nguyen earned a bachelor's degree in Women's Studies and a doctorate in Ethnic Studies from University of California, Berkeley. Her master's degree was in American Studies from New York University.[4]
Appointed in Gender and Women's Studies and Asian American Studies, Nguyen earned tenure in 2012 at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[5] She is a frequent conference keynote speaker or invited panelist,[6] and received the Outstanding Book Award in Cultural Studies from the Association of Asian American Studies, 2014[7] for her first single-author monograph, The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt and Other Refugee Passages.
Nguyen is possibly best known for her compilation zine Evolution of a Race Riot first published in 1997 with a second issue in 2002,[8] in which she and contributors of color challenged racism in the punk scene.[9] She also publishes the zine Slander and is a former Punk Planet columnist and Maximumrocknroll contributor. In June 2013, Sarah McCarry's Guillotine ("a series of erratically published chapbooks focused on revolutionary non-fiction") released PUNK, a conversation between Nguyen and Golnar Nikpour, which later informed a 2016 exhibition at the Arnolfini called "Moving Targets."[10]
Selected works
Books
- Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America, edited with Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu[11]
- The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages[12]
Zines
- Aim Your Dick[13]
- Evolution of a Race Riot,[14] editor
- Guillotine Series #4: Punk,[15] written with Golnar Nikpour
- Race Riot,[16] editor
- Race Riot Project Directory,[17] editor
- Slander[18]
- Slant[19]
References
- ↑ "Mimi Thi Nguyen". University of Illinois. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
- ↑ "about thread & circuits". Retrieved 19 March 2014.
- ↑ "Mimi Thi Nguyen". OCLC. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
- ↑ "MIMI THI NGUYEN, Associate Professor Gender & Women's Studies, Asian American Studies, Unit for Criticism". Retrieved 27 March 2014.
- ↑ "MIMI THI NGUYEN, Associate Professor Gender & Women's Studies, Asian American Studies, Unit for Criticism". Retrieved 27 March 2014.
- ↑ "MIMI THI NGUYEN, Associate Professor Gender & Women's Studies, Asian American Studies, Unit for Criticism". Retrieved 27 March 2014.
- ↑ "GWS Professor Mimi Thi Nguyen awarded by the Association of Asian American Studies". University of Illinois. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
- ↑ "Evolution of a race riot". OCLC. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
- ↑ "Evolution of a Race Riot". ZineWiki. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
- ↑ "Arnolfini 2016 Exhibition "Moving Targets"". Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- ↑ "Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America". Duke University Press. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
- ↑ "The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages". Duke University Press. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
- ↑ "Aim Your Dick". OCLC. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
- ↑ "Evolution of a Race Riot". OCLC. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
- ↑ "Guillotine Series #4: Punk". OCLC. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
- ↑ "Race Riot". OCLC. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
- ↑ "Race Riot Project Directory". OCLC. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
- ↑ "Slander". OCLC. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
- ↑ "Slant". OCLC. Retrieved 19 March 2014.