Y-Dang Troeung (張依蘭) (ទ្រឿងអ៊ីដាង) (pronouns: she/her/hers) was a writer and scholar based in Vancouver, who passed away in Fall 2022 of pancreatic cancer. She was an Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, and was an Associate Editor of the journal Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism Review and a Faculty Affiliate of the Asian Canadian Studies and Migration Program (ACAM). She researched and taught in the fields of transnational Asian literatures, critical refugee studies, transpacific Cold War studies, and critical disability studies. From 2012-2018, she lived and worked in Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong.
Her recent publications include a guest-edited special journal issue, Refugee Worldmaking: Canada and the Afterlives of the Vietnam War (Issue 246, 2022, Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review) and the book Refugee Lifeworlds: the Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia (Temple University Press, 2022). Her book Landbridge [life in fragments] will be published in August 2023 with Knopf Canada.
This website is kept updated to honor Y-Dang’s life. See her full obituary here.
Contact: [email protected].
Her recent publications include a guest-edited special journal issue, Refugee Worldmaking: Canada and the Afterlives of the Vietnam War (Issue 246, 2022, Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review) and the book Refugee Lifeworlds: the Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia (Temple University Press, 2022). Her book Landbridge [life in fragments] will be published in August 2023 with Knopf Canada.
This website is kept updated to honor Y-Dang’s life. See her full obituary here.
Contact: [email protected].
Photo Credit: Chris Patterson, Hanoi, 2017
All material © Y-Dang Troeung, 2022