Fiona Ngô, Assistant Professor
Contact Information
1208 W. Nevada Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: 217-265-6239
Email: ngo@illinois.edu
About
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- Present: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies Program and Gender and Women’s Studies Program
- 2005 - 2006: University of Illinois, Postdoctoral Fellow, Asian American Studies Program
- 2003 - 2005: University of Oregon, Visiting Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies Program
- 2002 - 2003: 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