Mimi Nguyen, Assistant Professor
Contact Information
911 S. Sixth Street
Champaign, IL 61821
Phone: 217-244-1282
Email: mimin@illinois.edu
About
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 - Present: 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