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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
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, Postdoctoral Supervisor: Viet Thanh Nguyen, March-August 2012.
BOOK MANUSCRIPT
Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia (Temple University Press, forthcoming, August 2022).
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
"Editorial: On Refugee Worldmaking," Introduction to Special Issue of "Refugee Worldmaking: Canada and the Afterlives of the Vietnam War," Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, Issue 246, Winter 2022, 6-14.
"The Crisis of Permanent War," in Chromatic: Ten Meditations on Crisis in Art and Letters (PWIAS, 2021, Distributed by UBC Press). (Co-authored with Purang Abolmaesumi, Jennifer Black, Lara Boyd, Carrie Jenkins, Hoi Kong, M.V. Ramana, Steve Reynolds, Michelle Stack, and Sheila Teves).
“Organic and Inorganic Chinas: Desire and Fatigue in Global Hong Kong.” Amerasia Journal 27, January 2020: 1-19. (Co-authored with Christopher B. Patterson).
“Between Forced Confession and Ethnic Autobiography.” Research Methods for Auto/Biography Studies, edited by Kate Douglas and Ashely Barnwell (Routledge, 2019): 220-227.
“Human Rights and the Literary Self-Portrait: Vann Nath’s A Cambodian Prison Portrait: One Year in the Khmer Rouge’s S-21.” Rethinking Historical Genres in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Jaume Aurell, editor (Routledge, 2017): 91-107.
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
Ongoing:
UBC Killam Research Fellowship, Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund Application, Internal, UBC, Sept 1, 2022-August 31, 2023.
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.
Faculty of Arts Research Grant, Faculty of Arts, SSHRC Explore Grant, Internal, UBC, Nov. 1, 2021-October 31, 2022.
Bridge Funding Award, UBC Bridge Funding Program, SSHRC General Research Fund, Internal, UBC, Sept 2, 2021-Sept 1, 2022.
Faculty of Arts Graduate Research Assistant (RA) Support Grant, Faculty of Arts, SSHRC Explore, Internal, UBC, May 1, 2021-May 1, 2023.
Scholarly Publication Fund Grant, VP Research and Innovation Office, Internal, UBC, February 2021-2022.
Wall Scholar Grant, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Research, Internal, UBC, September 1, 2020-August 1, 2022.
Completed:
Theatre Initiative Seed Grant, Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster, Internal, UBC, 2020-2021, Completed.
Workshop/Seed Grant, Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster, Internal, UBC, 2020-2021, Completed.
Hampton New Faculty Research Grant, Hampton Fund, Internal, UBC, 2019-2021, Completed.
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.
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
Keynote Address, "Negotiating Identity and Creativity in Times of Crisis," Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, HKBU Research Conference Grant, Online Conference.
"Aphasia/Cambodia." Doing Theory in Southeast Asia Workshop, Online Conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 28, 2021.
"Aphasia as Analytic and Refugee Regeneration." Society for Disability Studies Annual Conference (SDS@OSU), Online Conference, Ohio State University, Vancouver, April 18, 2021.
"Cambodia's Artistic Renaissance Across New Media." New Media Aesthetics of Migration Workshop, Online Workshop, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, April 14, 2021.
"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.
“Boneyards of the Cold War.” MLA Annual Convention, Modern Languages Association, Online Conference, January 7, 2021.
“Emotional Resistance in Pol Pot Time.” Annual Conference of the International Association for Genocide Studies, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, July 14-18, 2019.
“Entangled Transpacific Futures.” Symposium: Currents of Transpacific Empire, UBC, Vancouver, Canada, April 9, 2019.
“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.
“Militarism, Asylum, and the Logic of Humanitarianism.” Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference, UBC, Vancouver, Canada, June 22, 2018.
CONFERENCE PANEL ORGANIZATION / MODERATION / DISCUSSANT / INTERVIEWER
Conference Panel Moderator & Discussant, "Modernisation, Technologies and Innovations," 35th biennial conference of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian, Online, Sunday, October 24, 2021.
Moderator & Interviewer, "Kim Thúy: On Love as Resistance," Vancouver Public Library Event, Kim Thuy in Conversation with Y-Dang Troeung, Online, October 6, 2021,
Co-Organizer (with CR+MS), "Pandemic Empire: a Public Talk by Anjuli Raza Kolb," Organized by the Critical Refugee + Migration Studies Canada (CRMSC) Event, Online, August 20, 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.
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)
Transformative Memory: An International Network, Transnational (Co-Applicant)
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Asian American Studies Association (AAAS)
American Studies Association (ASA)
Modern Languages Association (MLA)
Society for Disability Studies (SDS)
Last updated: May 30, 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
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, Postdoctoral Supervisor: Viet Thanh Nguyen, March-August 2012.
BOOK MANUSCRIPT
Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia (Temple University Press, forthcoming, August 2022).
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
"Editorial: On Refugee Worldmaking," Introduction to Special Issue of "Refugee Worldmaking: Canada and the Afterlives of the Vietnam War," Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, Issue 246, Winter 2022, 6-14.
"The Crisis of Permanent War," in Chromatic: Ten Meditations on Crisis in Art and Letters (PWIAS, 2021, Distributed by UBC Press). (Co-authored with Purang Abolmaesumi, Jennifer Black, Lara Boyd, Carrie Jenkins, Hoi Kong, M.V. Ramana, Steve Reynolds, Michelle Stack, and Sheila Teves).
“Organic and Inorganic Chinas: Desire and Fatigue in Global Hong Kong.” Amerasia Journal 27, January 2020: 1-19. (Co-authored with Christopher B. Patterson).
“Between Forced Confession and Ethnic Autobiography.” Research Methods for Auto/Biography Studies, edited by Kate Douglas and Ashely Barnwell (Routledge, 2019): 220-227.
“Human Rights and the Literary Self-Portrait: Vann Nath’s A Cambodian Prison Portrait: One Year in the Khmer Rouge’s S-21.” Rethinking Historical Genres in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Jaume Aurell, editor (Routledge, 2017): 91-107.
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
Ongoing:
UBC Killam Research Fellowship, Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund Application, Internal, UBC, Sept 1, 2022-August 31, 2023.
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.
Faculty of Arts Research Grant, Faculty of Arts, SSHRC Explore Grant, Internal, UBC, Nov. 1, 2021-October 31, 2022.
Bridge Funding Award, UBC Bridge Funding Program, SSHRC General Research Fund, Internal, UBC, Sept 2, 2021-Sept 1, 2022.
Faculty of Arts Graduate Research Assistant (RA) Support Grant, Faculty of Arts, SSHRC Explore, Internal, UBC, May 1, 2021-May 1, 2023.
Scholarly Publication Fund Grant, VP Research and Innovation Office, Internal, UBC, February 2021-2022.
Wall Scholar Grant, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Research, Internal, UBC, September 1, 2020-August 1, 2022.
Completed:
Theatre Initiative Seed Grant, Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster, Internal, UBC, 2020-2021, Completed.
Workshop/Seed Grant, Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster, Internal, UBC, 2020-2021, Completed.
Hampton New Faculty Research Grant, Hampton Fund, Internal, UBC, 2019-2021, Completed.
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.
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
Keynote Address, "Negotiating Identity and Creativity in Times of Crisis," Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, HKBU Research Conference Grant, Online Conference.
"Aphasia/Cambodia." Doing Theory in Southeast Asia Workshop, Online Conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 28, 2021.
"Aphasia as Analytic and Refugee Regeneration." Society for Disability Studies Annual Conference (SDS@OSU), Online Conference, Ohio State University, Vancouver, April 18, 2021.
"Cambodia's Artistic Renaissance Across New Media." New Media Aesthetics of Migration Workshop, Online Workshop, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, April 14, 2021.
"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.
“Boneyards of the Cold War.” MLA Annual Convention, Modern Languages Association, Online Conference, January 7, 2021.
“Emotional Resistance in Pol Pot Time.” Annual Conference of the International Association for Genocide Studies, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, July 14-18, 2019.
“Entangled Transpacific Futures.” Symposium: Currents of Transpacific Empire, UBC, Vancouver, Canada, April 9, 2019.
“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.
“Militarism, Asylum, and the Logic of Humanitarianism.” Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference, UBC, Vancouver, Canada, June 22, 2018.
CONFERENCE PANEL ORGANIZATION / MODERATION / DISCUSSANT / INTERVIEWER
Conference Panel Moderator & Discussant, "Modernisation, Technologies and Innovations," 35th biennial conference of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian, Online, Sunday, October 24, 2021.
Moderator & Interviewer, "Kim Thúy: On Love as Resistance," Vancouver Public Library Event, Kim Thuy in Conversation with Y-Dang Troeung, Online, October 6, 2021,
Co-Organizer (with CR+MS), "Pandemic Empire: a Public Talk by Anjuli Raza Kolb," Organized by the Critical Refugee + Migration Studies Canada (CRMSC) Event, Online, August 20, 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.
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)
Transformative Memory: An International Network, Transnational (Co-Applicant)
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Asian American Studies Association (AAAS)
American Studies Association (ASA)
Modern Languages Association (MLA)
Society for Disability Studies (SDS)
Last updated: May 30, 2022
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