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Y-DANG TROEUNG
397-1873 E Mall, Department of English Language and Literatures,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1,
www.y-dang.com | y-dang.troeung@ubc.ca
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
M.A. in English, University of Waterloo
B.A. in English, Honours, University of Waterloo
PHD DISSERTATION
Title: Intimate Reconciliations: Diasporic Genealogies of War and Genocide in Southeast Asia
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literatures, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, BC, August 2018-Ongoing.
Assistant Professor, Department of English, City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong, August 2012-August 2018.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), University of Southern California, American Studies Department, Postdoctoral Supervisor: Dr. Viet Thanh Nguyen, March-August 2012.
BOOK MANUSCRIPT
Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia (Temple University Press, August 2022).
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLES
Troeung, Y-Dang. Special Editorial Introduction, “On Refugee Worldmaking,” in “Refugee Worldmaking: Canada and the Afterlives of the Vietnam War,” Special Issue of Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, Issue 246, Winter 2022: 6-14.
Troeung, Y-Dang, with Christopher B. Patterson. “Organic and Inorganic Chinas: Desire and Fatigue in Global Hong Kong.” Amerasia Journal 27 (January 2020): 1-19. [YT as 50% Contributor]
Troeung, Y-Dang, with Madeleine Thien. “‘To the Intellectuals of the West’: Rithy Panh’s The Elimination and Genealogies of the Cambodian Genocide.” Topia-Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 35 (Spring 2016): 155-171. [YT as 50% Contributor]
Troeung, Y-Dang, with Christopher B. Patterson. “The Psyche of Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Queering Memory and Reproduction in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl and Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 42.1 (March 2016): 73-98. [YT as 50 % Contributor]
Troeung, Y-Dang. “Buried History and Transpacific Pedagogy: Teaching the Vietnamese Boat People’s Hong Kong Passage.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 46.1-2 (2015): 239-255.
Troeung, Y-Dang. “Iterations of War and its Literary Counterforces: Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan and Kosal Khiev’s Why I Write.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 40.2 (2015): 96-116.
Troeung, Y-Dang. “Human Rights and the Literary Self-Portrait: Vann Nath’s A Cambodian Prison Portrait: One Year in the Khmer Rouge’s S-21.” Rethinking History: Journal of Theory and Practice 19.2 (2015): 235-251. *Reprinted as book chapter in Rethinking Historical Genres in the Twenty-First Century. Jaume Aurell, editor (Routledge, 2017): 91-107.
Troeung, Y-Dang and Phanuel Antwi, Sarah Brophy, and Helene Strauss. Special Issue Editorial Introduction: “Postcolonial Intimacies: Gatherings, Disruptions, Departures.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 15.1 (2013): 1-9. [YT as 50% Contributor]
Troeung, Y-Dang. “Witnessing Cambodia’s Disappeared.” University of Toronto Quarterly 82.2 (2013): 150-167.
Troeung, Y-Dang. “‘A gift or a theft depends on who is holding the pen': Postcolonial Collaborative Autobiography and Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt," Modern Fiction Studies 56. 1 (2010): 91-108.
Troeung, Y-Dang. “Forgetting Loss in Madeleine Thien's Certainty," Canadian Literature 206 (2010): 91-108.
BOOK CHAPTERS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS
Troeung, Y-Dang, “The Crisis of Permanent War,” in Chromatic: Ten Meditations on Crisis in Art and Letters, (Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, 2021, November 2021), with Purang Abolmaesumi, Jennifer Black, Lara Boyd, Carrie Jenkins, Hoi Kong, M.V. Ramana, Steve Reynolds, Michelle Stack, and Sheila Teves.
Troeung, Y-Dang, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Christopher B. Patterson, and Weihsin Gui. “Asian Literatures in English.” The Handbook of Asian Englishes, Edited by Kingsley Bolton, Werner Botha, Andy Kirkpatrick (London: Wiley Blackwell (September 2020): 787-812. [YT as 25% Contributor]
Troeung, Y-Dang. “Between Forced Confession and Ethnic Autobiography.” Research Methods for Auto-Biography Studies. Kate Douglas and Ashely Barnwell, editors (Routledge, 2019): 220-227.
INTERVIEWS IN JOURNALS
Troeung, Y-Dang and Phanuel Antwi. “‘In this very uncertain space’: A Conversation with Omar El Akkad.” Canadian Literature 240 (Spring 2020): 42-56. [YT as 50 % Contributor]
Troeung, Y-Dang and Viet Le. “Refugee Crossings on the 40th Anniversary of the Vietnam War: An Interview with Andrew Lam.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States 41.3 (Fall 2016): 1-10. [YT as 50% Contributor]
Troeung, Y-Dang and Phanuel Antwi, Sarah Brophy, and Helene Strauss. “Not Without Ambivalence: An Interview with Sara Ahmed on Postcolonial Intimacies.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 15.1 (2013): 110-126. [YT as 25 % Contributor]
FORUM CONTRIBUTIONS IN JOURNALS
Troeung, Y-Dang. “A Forum on Remembering Cambodian Border Camps,” Forum Essay Introduction on the Exhibition Remembering Cambodian Border Camps, 40 Years Later,” Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, Issue 246, Spring 2020, 140-142.
Troeung, Y-Dang. “Worlds Lost and Found: On the Poetics of Hoa Nguyen,” Forum Essay Introduction on the work of Hoa Nguyen,” Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, Issue 246, Spring 2020, .
Troeung, Y-Dang. “On Names and Resonances,” Forum Essay on the work of Souvankham Thommavongsa, Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, Issue 242, Spring 2020, 140-142.
Troeung, Y-Dang, with Helen Hok-Sze Leung, Robert Diaz, and Lara Campbell. “Routed through Canada: A Roundtable Discussion on Inter-Asia and Transnational Research.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 20.2 (2019): 327-340.
Troeung, Y-Dang, with Thy Phu and Vinh Nguyen. “Refugee Compassion and the Politics of Embodied Storytelling: A Critical Conversation.” a/b: Autobiography Studies 33.2 (2018): 441-445.
Troeung, Y-Dang. “Alice Munro Country and Refugee Havens.” Canadian Literature 227 (Winter 2015): 193-194.
EXHIBITIONS
"Remembering Cambodian Border Camps, 40 Years Later: An Exhibition at Bophana Audiovisual Center," July 1-31, 2021. (Co-organized by Y-Dang Troeung with Bophana Center).
PODCASTS
"S02E03: On the Politics of Waste, Race, and Disposability with Mohammed Rafi Arefin," Ways of Knowing Podcast, PWIAS, with Y-Dang Troeung and M.V. Ramana, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC, Published online, Sept 20, 2021.
"Ep 16: Y-Dang Troeung on Redefining the Refugee Narrative," Ways of Knowing Podcast, with Kalina Kristoff, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC, Published online June 28, 2021.
SELECTED GRANTS
UBC Killam Research Fellowship, Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund, UBC, Internal, Sept 1, 2022-August 31, 2023, $15,000.
Explore and Create: Research and Creation Grant, External, Canada Council for the Arts, as CO-P-I with Alejandro Yoshizawa, May 1, 2022-April 31, 2023, $60,000.
Faculty of Arts Research Grant, Faculty of Arts, SSHRC Explore Grant, Internal, UBC, Nov. 1, 2021-October 31, 2022, $4,000.
Bridge Funding Award, UBC Bridge Funding Program, SSHRC General Research Fund, Internal, UBC, Sept 2, 2021-December 1, 2022, $5,000.
Faculty of Arts Graduate Research Assistant (RA) Support Grant, Faculty of Arts, SSHRC Explore, Internal, UBC, May 1, 2021-May 1, 2023, $4,000.
Scholarly Publication Fund Grant, VP Research and Innovation Office, Internal, UBC, February 2021-2022, $7,000.
Wall Scholar Grant, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Research, Internal, UBC, September 1, 2020-August 1, 2022, $30,000.
Completed:
Theatre Initiative Seed Grant, Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster, Internal, UBC, 2020-2021, Completed, $2,050.
Workshop/Seed Grant, Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster, Internal, UBC, 2020-2021, Completed, $3,000.
Hampton New Faculty Research Grant, Hampton Fund, Internal, UBC, 2019-2021, Completed, $10,000.
Arts Student Remote Work on Campus Initiative (ASRWC), Internal, Dean of Arts Endowment Fund, UBC, 2020, Completed.
SSHRC Exchange Arts International Conference Travel Grant, Internal, UBC, 2020-2021, Completed, $2,000.
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), University of Southern California, American Studies, Postdoctoral Supervisor: Viet Thanh Nguyen, March-August 2012, Completed.
SELECT PRESENTATIONS
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS as KEYNOTE SPEAKER, INVITED SPEAKER, CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP/SYMPOSIUM PANEL PRESENTER
Invited Speaker Presentation, ""Refugee Archives across the Transpacific: Activating Anecdotes and Family Photography – A Conversation, with Thy Phu," Noted Scholars Series, Institute for Social Justice, Online Presentation, UBC, October 27, 2021, Presentation Title:
Keynote Address, "Dwelling in/with Aphasia & The Kapok Tree: The Family Anecdote as Archive in the Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia,"
Negotiating Identity and Creativity in Times of Crisis," Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, HKBU Research Conference Grant, Online Conference, September 25, 2021.
Conference Panel Presentation, "Aphasia/Cambodia." Doing Theory in Southeast Asia Workshop, Online Conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 28, 2021.
Conference Panel Presentation,"Aphasia as Analytic and Refugee Regeneration." Society for Disability Studies Annual Conference (SDS@OSU), Online Conference, Ohio State University, Vancouver, April 18, 2021.
Workshop Panel Presentation, "Cambodia's Artistic Renaissance Across New Media." New Media Aesthetics of Migration Workshop, Online Workshop, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, April 14, 2021.
Conference Panel Presentation,"Cambodia's Minor Anecdoting and the Cambodian Refugee in the Minor Transpacific." Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Association for Asian American Studies, Online Conference, Seattle, April 9, 2021.
Conference Panel Presentation,“Boneyards of the Cold War.” MLA Annual Convention, Modern Languages Association, Online Conference, January 7, 2021.
Conference Panel Presentation,“Emotional Resistance in Pol Pot Time.” Annual Conference of the International Association for Genocide Studies, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, July 14-18, 2019.
Symposium Panel Presentation, “Entangled Transpacific Futures.” UBC Social Justice Institute Symposium: Currents of Transpacific Empire, UBC, Vancouver, Canada, April 9, 2019.
Workshop Panel Presentation, “Cold War Fraternities: China, Cambodia, and North Korea as Cultural Mirrors.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Beyond Asia Workshop, SFU Harbour Center, Vancouver, Canada, Sept 21, 2018.
Conference Panel Presentation, “Militarism, Asylum, and the Logic of Humanitarianism.” Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference, UBC, Vancouver, Canada, June 22, 2018.
Conference Panel Presentation, "Solidarity and Resistance: Challenges for Asian American Studies in Asia," Association for Asian American Studies Conference, San Francisco, California, March 2018
CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP/SYMPOSIUM/PUBLIC-FACING WORK as ORGANIZER / MODERATOR / DISCUSSANT / INTERVIEWER / ETC.
Conference Panel Moderator & Discussant, "Modernisation, Technologies and Innovations," 35th biennial conference of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian, Online, Sunday, October 24, 2021.
Public Event Interviewer & Moderator, "Kim Thúy: On Love as Resistance," Vancouver Public Library Event, Kim Thuy in Conversation with Y-Dang Troeung, Online, October 6, 2021,
Conference Panel Discussant, "Panel Title: Slow Violence, Fast Food," Southeast Asian American Studies Association Conference, San Jose University, Online Conference, July 9, 2021:
Conference Panel Moderator & Discussant, "Author Spotlight of The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America," by Timothy K. August, Southeast Asian American Studies Association Conference, San Jose University, Online Conference, July 8, 2021.
Public Event Moderator and Organizer, with CR+MS, “Writing Refugees: A Conversation with Souvankham Thommavongsa,” Critical Refugee Studies Network Canada, Online Author’s Talk, June 16, 2020,
Public Event Moderator and Organizer, with Christopher Patterson and Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, “Pacific Borderlands: Sanctuary Health and Precarious Migrants in British Columbia,” GRSJ Noted Scholars Series, Symposium, March 31, 2021.
SELECT COURSES
Critical Refugee Studies and Refugee Worldmaking, Graduate Seminar (13) | University of British Columbia | ENGL 546A | January 2022
Speculative Fiction: Dystopia, Undergraduate Course (43) | University of British Columbia | ENGL 243 | Sept 2021
Literary and Social Movements in China, Hong Kong, and the Transpacific, Undergraduate Majors Seminar (16) |University of British Columbia |ENGL 490 |Winter 2020
Decolonial Literature: Borders, Violence, and Decoloniality, Undergraduate Course (45) | University of British Columbia |ENGL 478A/ENGL 374|Winter 2019 |Winter 2020
Global South Connections: Writing the Cold War in Asia, Undergraduate Course (45)|University of British Columbia |ENGL 375 | Fall 2018 | Fall 2019
Cambodia Field Study Course, Undergraduate Seminar in Siem Reap, Cambodia (15-20)|City University of Hong Kong | Summer 2016 | Summer 2017 | Summer 2018
Postcolonial Literature and Culture, Graduate Course (35) / Seminar (8) |City University of Hong Kong |ENGL 6509|Winter 2016 |Winter 2017
Asian Literature in English, Undergraduate Course (25)|City University of Hong Kong | GE2404 | Fall 2014 | Fall 2015 | Fall 2016
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Search Committee Member for Position of Assistant Professor in Canadian Literature, Dept. of English | UBC, 2021-2022.
Associate Editor for Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review | UBC, 2020-ongoing
2021 Wall Scholar Selection Committee Member | Peter Wall Institute for the Advanced Humanities | UBC, 2020-2021
PSA/Merit Committee Member | Dept. of English | UBC, 2019-2020, 2021-2022.
Search Committee Member for Position of Associate/Full Professor in Canadian Literature, Dept. of English | UBC, 2019-2020
Graduate Studies Committee Member | MA subcommittee, Dept. of English | UBC, 2019-2020
Prizes and Scholarships Committee, Dept. of English | UBC, 2018-2019, 2019-2020
CURRENT ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC (2020 Wall Scholar)
Asian Canadian Studies and Migration Program, UBC (Faculty Affiliate)
Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, UBC (Associate Editor)
Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster, UBC (Core Member)
Critical + Creative Social Justice Studies, UBC (Core Member)
Research Creation Research Group, Centre for Migration Studies, UBC (Group Member)
Critical Refugee + Migration Studies Canada Network, TransCanada (Advisory Committee Member)
Institute for Transpacific Cultural Research, Transnational (Associate Member)
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Asian American Studies Association (AAAS)
American Studies Association (ASA)
Modern Languages Association (MLA)
Society for Disability Studies (SDS)
Last updated: Sept 2, 2022
Y-DANG TROEUNG
397-1873 E Mall, Department of English Language and Literatures,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1,
www.y-dang.com | y-dang.troeung@ubc.ca
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
M.A. in English, University of Waterloo
B.A. in English, Honours, University of Waterloo
PHD DISSERTATION
Title: Intimate Reconciliations: Diasporic Genealogies of War and Genocide in Southeast Asia
- Supervisor: Dr. Donald C. Goellnicht, McMaster University
- Committee: Dr. Daniel Coleman, Dr. Helene Strauss, McMaster University
- External Examiner: Dr. Viet Thanh Nguyen, University of Southern California
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literatures, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, BC, August 2018-Ongoing.
Assistant Professor, Department of English, City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong, August 2012-August 2018.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), University of Southern California, American Studies Department, Postdoctoral Supervisor: Dr. Viet Thanh Nguyen, March-August 2012.
BOOK MANUSCRIPT
Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia (Temple University Press, August 2022).
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLES
Troeung, Y-Dang. Special Editorial Introduction, “On Refugee Worldmaking,” in “Refugee Worldmaking: Canada and the Afterlives of the Vietnam War,” Special Issue of Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, Issue 246, Winter 2022: 6-14.
Troeung, Y-Dang, with Christopher B. Patterson. “Organic and Inorganic Chinas: Desire and Fatigue in Global Hong Kong.” Amerasia Journal 27 (January 2020): 1-19. [YT as 50% Contributor]
Troeung, Y-Dang, with Madeleine Thien. “‘To the Intellectuals of the West’: Rithy Panh’s The Elimination and Genealogies of the Cambodian Genocide.” Topia-Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 35 (Spring 2016): 155-171. [YT as 50% Contributor]
Troeung, Y-Dang, with Christopher B. Patterson. “The Psyche of Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Queering Memory and Reproduction in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl and Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 42.1 (March 2016): 73-98. [YT as 50 % Contributor]
Troeung, Y-Dang. “Buried History and Transpacific Pedagogy: Teaching the Vietnamese Boat People’s Hong Kong Passage.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 46.1-2 (2015): 239-255.
Troeung, Y-Dang. “Iterations of War and its Literary Counterforces: Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan and Kosal Khiev’s Why I Write.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 40.2 (2015): 96-116.
Troeung, Y-Dang. “Human Rights and the Literary Self-Portrait: Vann Nath’s A Cambodian Prison Portrait: One Year in the Khmer Rouge’s S-21.” Rethinking History: Journal of Theory and Practice 19.2 (2015): 235-251. *Reprinted as book chapter in Rethinking Historical Genres in the Twenty-First Century. Jaume Aurell, editor (Routledge, 2017): 91-107.
Troeung, Y-Dang and Phanuel Antwi, Sarah Brophy, and Helene Strauss. Special Issue Editorial Introduction: “Postcolonial Intimacies: Gatherings, Disruptions, Departures.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 15.1 (2013): 1-9. [YT as 50% Contributor]
Troeung, Y-Dang. “Witnessing Cambodia’s Disappeared.” University of Toronto Quarterly 82.2 (2013): 150-167.
Troeung, Y-Dang. “‘A gift or a theft depends on who is holding the pen': Postcolonial Collaborative Autobiography and Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt," Modern Fiction Studies 56. 1 (2010): 91-108.
Troeung, Y-Dang. “Forgetting Loss in Madeleine Thien's Certainty," Canadian Literature 206 (2010): 91-108.
BOOK CHAPTERS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS
Troeung, Y-Dang, “The Crisis of Permanent War,” in Chromatic: Ten Meditations on Crisis in Art and Letters, (Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, 2021, November 2021), with Purang Abolmaesumi, Jennifer Black, Lara Boyd, Carrie Jenkins, Hoi Kong, M.V. Ramana, Steve Reynolds, Michelle Stack, and Sheila Teves.
Troeung, Y-Dang, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Christopher B. Patterson, and Weihsin Gui. “Asian Literatures in English.” The Handbook of Asian Englishes, Edited by Kingsley Bolton, Werner Botha, Andy Kirkpatrick (London: Wiley Blackwell (September 2020): 787-812. [YT as 25% Contributor]
Troeung, Y-Dang. “Between Forced Confession and Ethnic Autobiography.” Research Methods for Auto-Biography Studies. Kate Douglas and Ashely Barnwell, editors (Routledge, 2019): 220-227.
INTERVIEWS IN JOURNALS
Troeung, Y-Dang and Phanuel Antwi. “‘In this very uncertain space’: A Conversation with Omar El Akkad.” Canadian Literature 240 (Spring 2020): 42-56. [YT as 50 % Contributor]
Troeung, Y-Dang and Viet Le. “Refugee Crossings on the 40th Anniversary of the Vietnam War: An Interview with Andrew Lam.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States 41.3 (Fall 2016): 1-10. [YT as 50% Contributor]
Troeung, Y-Dang and Phanuel Antwi, Sarah Brophy, and Helene Strauss. “Not Without Ambivalence: An Interview with Sara Ahmed on Postcolonial Intimacies.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 15.1 (2013): 110-126. [YT as 25 % Contributor]
FORUM CONTRIBUTIONS IN JOURNALS
Troeung, Y-Dang. “A Forum on Remembering Cambodian Border Camps,” Forum Essay Introduction on the Exhibition Remembering Cambodian Border Camps, 40 Years Later,” Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, Issue 246, Spring 2020, 140-142.
Troeung, Y-Dang. “Worlds Lost and Found: On the Poetics of Hoa Nguyen,” Forum Essay Introduction on the work of Hoa Nguyen,” Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, Issue 246, Spring 2020, .
Troeung, Y-Dang. “On Names and Resonances,” Forum Essay on the work of Souvankham Thommavongsa, Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, Issue 242, Spring 2020, 140-142.
Troeung, Y-Dang, with Helen Hok-Sze Leung, Robert Diaz, and Lara Campbell. “Routed through Canada: A Roundtable Discussion on Inter-Asia and Transnational Research.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 20.2 (2019): 327-340.
Troeung, Y-Dang, with Thy Phu and Vinh Nguyen. “Refugee Compassion and the Politics of Embodied Storytelling: A Critical Conversation.” a/b: Autobiography Studies 33.2 (2018): 441-445.
Troeung, Y-Dang. “Alice Munro Country and Refugee Havens.” Canadian Literature 227 (Winter 2015): 193-194.
EXHIBITIONS
"Remembering Cambodian Border Camps, 40 Years Later: An Exhibition at Bophana Audiovisual Center," July 1-31, 2021. (Co-organized by Y-Dang Troeung with Bophana Center).
PODCASTS
"S02E03: On the Politics of Waste, Race, and Disposability with Mohammed Rafi Arefin," Ways of Knowing Podcast, PWIAS, with Y-Dang Troeung and M.V. Ramana, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC, Published online, Sept 20, 2021.
"Ep 16: Y-Dang Troeung on Redefining the Refugee Narrative," Ways of Knowing Podcast, with Kalina Kristoff, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC, Published online June 28, 2021.
SELECTED GRANTS
UBC Killam Research Fellowship, Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund, UBC, Internal, Sept 1, 2022-August 31, 2023, $15,000.
Explore and Create: Research and Creation Grant, External, Canada Council for the Arts, as CO-P-I with Alejandro Yoshizawa, May 1, 2022-April 31, 2023, $60,000.
Faculty of Arts Research Grant, Faculty of Arts, SSHRC Explore Grant, Internal, UBC, Nov. 1, 2021-October 31, 2022, $4,000.
Bridge Funding Award, UBC Bridge Funding Program, SSHRC General Research Fund, Internal, UBC, Sept 2, 2021-December 1, 2022, $5,000.
Faculty of Arts Graduate Research Assistant (RA) Support Grant, Faculty of Arts, SSHRC Explore, Internal, UBC, May 1, 2021-May 1, 2023, $4,000.
Scholarly Publication Fund Grant, VP Research and Innovation Office, Internal, UBC, February 2021-2022, $7,000.
Wall Scholar Grant, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Research, Internal, UBC, September 1, 2020-August 1, 2022, $30,000.
Completed:
Theatre Initiative Seed Grant, Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster, Internal, UBC, 2020-2021, Completed, $2,050.
Workshop/Seed Grant, Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster, Internal, UBC, 2020-2021, Completed, $3,000.
Hampton New Faculty Research Grant, Hampton Fund, Internal, UBC, 2019-2021, Completed, $10,000.
Arts Student Remote Work on Campus Initiative (ASRWC), Internal, Dean of Arts Endowment Fund, UBC, 2020, Completed.
SSHRC Exchange Arts International Conference Travel Grant, Internal, UBC, 2020-2021, Completed, $2,000.
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), University of Southern California, American Studies, Postdoctoral Supervisor: Viet Thanh Nguyen, March-August 2012, Completed.
SELECT PRESENTATIONS
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS as KEYNOTE SPEAKER, INVITED SPEAKER, CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP/SYMPOSIUM PANEL PRESENTER
Invited Speaker Presentation, ""Refugee Archives across the Transpacific: Activating Anecdotes and Family Photography – A Conversation, with Thy Phu," Noted Scholars Series, Institute for Social Justice, Online Presentation, UBC, October 27, 2021, Presentation Title:
Keynote Address, "Dwelling in/with Aphasia & The Kapok Tree: The Family Anecdote as Archive in the Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia,"
Negotiating Identity and Creativity in Times of Crisis," Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, HKBU Research Conference Grant, Online Conference, September 25, 2021.
Conference Panel Presentation, "Aphasia/Cambodia." Doing Theory in Southeast Asia Workshop, Online Conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 28, 2021.
Conference Panel Presentation,"Aphasia as Analytic and Refugee Regeneration." Society for Disability Studies Annual Conference (SDS@OSU), Online Conference, Ohio State University, Vancouver, April 18, 2021.
Workshop Panel Presentation, "Cambodia's Artistic Renaissance Across New Media." New Media Aesthetics of Migration Workshop, Online Workshop, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, April 14, 2021.
Conference Panel Presentation,"Cambodia's Minor Anecdoting and the Cambodian Refugee in the Minor Transpacific." Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Association for Asian American Studies, Online Conference, Seattle, April 9, 2021.
Conference Panel Presentation,“Boneyards of the Cold War.” MLA Annual Convention, Modern Languages Association, Online Conference, January 7, 2021.
Conference Panel Presentation,“Emotional Resistance in Pol Pot Time.” Annual Conference of the International Association for Genocide Studies, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, July 14-18, 2019.
Symposium Panel Presentation, “Entangled Transpacific Futures.” UBC Social Justice Institute Symposium: Currents of Transpacific Empire, UBC, Vancouver, Canada, April 9, 2019.
Workshop Panel Presentation, “Cold War Fraternities: China, Cambodia, and North Korea as Cultural Mirrors.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Beyond Asia Workshop, SFU Harbour Center, Vancouver, Canada, Sept 21, 2018.
Conference Panel Presentation, “Militarism, Asylum, and the Logic of Humanitarianism.” Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference, UBC, Vancouver, Canada, June 22, 2018.
Conference Panel Presentation, "Solidarity and Resistance: Challenges for Asian American Studies in Asia," Association for Asian American Studies Conference, San Francisco, California, March 2018
CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP/SYMPOSIUM/PUBLIC-FACING WORK as ORGANIZER / MODERATOR / DISCUSSANT / INTERVIEWER / ETC.
Conference Panel Moderator & Discussant, "Modernisation, Technologies and Innovations," 35th biennial conference of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian, Online, Sunday, October 24, 2021.
Public Event Interviewer & Moderator, "Kim Thúy: On Love as Resistance," Vancouver Public Library Event, Kim Thuy in Conversation with Y-Dang Troeung, Online, October 6, 2021,
Conference Panel Discussant, "Panel Title: Slow Violence, Fast Food," Southeast Asian American Studies Association Conference, San Jose University, Online Conference, July 9, 2021:
Conference Panel Moderator & Discussant, "Author Spotlight of The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America," by Timothy K. August, Southeast Asian American Studies Association Conference, San Jose University, Online Conference, July 8, 2021.
Public Event Moderator and Organizer, with CR+MS, “Writing Refugees: A Conversation with Souvankham Thommavongsa,” Critical Refugee Studies Network Canada, Online Author’s Talk, June 16, 2020,
Public Event Moderator and Organizer, with Christopher Patterson and Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, “Pacific Borderlands: Sanctuary Health and Precarious Migrants in British Columbia,” GRSJ Noted Scholars Series, Symposium, March 31, 2021.
SELECT COURSES
Critical Refugee Studies and Refugee Worldmaking, Graduate Seminar (13) | University of British Columbia | ENGL 546A | January 2022
Speculative Fiction: Dystopia, Undergraduate Course (43) | University of British Columbia | ENGL 243 | Sept 2021
Literary and Social Movements in China, Hong Kong, and the Transpacific, Undergraduate Majors Seminar (16) |University of British Columbia |ENGL 490 |Winter 2020
Decolonial Literature: Borders, Violence, and Decoloniality, Undergraduate Course (45) | University of British Columbia |ENGL 478A/ENGL 374|Winter 2019 |Winter 2020
Global South Connections: Writing the Cold War in Asia, Undergraduate Course (45)|University of British Columbia |ENGL 375 | Fall 2018 | Fall 2019
Cambodia Field Study Course, Undergraduate Seminar in Siem Reap, Cambodia (15-20)|City University of Hong Kong | Summer 2016 | Summer 2017 | Summer 2018
Postcolonial Literature and Culture, Graduate Course (35) / Seminar (8) |City University of Hong Kong |ENGL 6509|Winter 2016 |Winter 2017
Asian Literature in English, Undergraduate Course (25)|City University of Hong Kong | GE2404 | Fall 2014 | Fall 2015 | Fall 2016
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Search Committee Member for Position of Assistant Professor in Canadian Literature, Dept. of English | UBC, 2021-2022.
Associate Editor for Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review | UBC, 2020-ongoing
2021 Wall Scholar Selection Committee Member | Peter Wall Institute for the Advanced Humanities | UBC, 2020-2021
PSA/Merit Committee Member | Dept. of English | UBC, 2019-2020, 2021-2022.
Search Committee Member for Position of Associate/Full Professor in Canadian Literature, Dept. of English | UBC, 2019-2020
Graduate Studies Committee Member | MA subcommittee, Dept. of English | UBC, 2019-2020
Prizes and Scholarships Committee, Dept. of English | UBC, 2018-2019, 2019-2020
CURRENT ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC (2020 Wall Scholar)
Asian Canadian Studies and Migration Program, UBC (Faculty Affiliate)
Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, UBC (Associate Editor)
Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster, UBC (Core Member)
Critical + Creative Social Justice Studies, UBC (Core Member)
Research Creation Research Group, Centre for Migration Studies, UBC (Group Member)
Critical Refugee + Migration Studies Canada Network, TransCanada (Advisory Committee Member)
Institute for Transpacific Cultural Research, Transnational (Associate Member)
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Asian American Studies Association (AAAS)
American Studies Association (ASA)
Modern Languages Association (MLA)
Society for Disability Studies (SDS)
Last updated: Sept 2, 2022
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