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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, 2018-Ongoing
Assistant Professor, Department of English, City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong, 2012-2018
BOOK MANUSCRIPT
Refugee Lifeworlds: Aphasia and the Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia (under contract with Temple University Press) deploys aphasia as a critical analytic for theorizing the afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia, bridging the fields of Critical Refugee Studies, Transpacific Cold War Studies, and Critical Disability Studies. Derived from the Greek etymology aphatos (which literally means “without speech”), aphasia is a medical term that describes the disruption of language in the aftermath of brain injury. In my book, I ask what happens if we route aphasia through Cambodia and Cambodia through aphasia?
MAJOR PROJECTS
"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).
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
"On Names and Resonances," Forum contribution on the work of Souvankham Thommavongsa, Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, Issue 242, Spring 2020, 140-142. [published online March 2021]
“Boneyards of the Cold War.” Brick: A Literary Journal, Issue 105, Spring 2020.
“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.
“‘To the Intellectuals of the West’: Rithy Panh’s The Elimination and Genealogies of the Cambodian Genocide.” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Issue 35 (Spring 2016): 155-171. (Co-authored with Madeleine Thien).
PODCASTS
"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
Faculty of Arts Graduate Research Assistant (RA) Support Grant, SSHRC Explore, UBC, May 1, 2021-May 31, 2022.
UBC Scholarly Publication Fund Grant, VP Research and Innovation Office, UBC, 2021-2022.
Theatre Initiative Seed Grant, Interdisciplinary Historical Research Cluster, UBC, 2020-2021.
Workshop/Seed Grant, Interdisciplinary Historical Research Cluster, UBC, 2020-2021.
Wall Scholar Grant, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Research, UBC, 2020-2021.
Hampton New Faculty Research Grant, Hampton Fund, UBC, 2019-2021.
Arts Student Remote Work on Campus Initiative (ASRWC), Dean of Arts Endowment Fund, UBC, 2020, Completed.
Internal Arts International Travel Grant, SSHRC Internal, UBC, 2020-2021, Completed.
SELECT PRESENTATIONS
"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.
EVENT ORGANIZATION / PARTICIPATION / MODERATION
To be updated.
SELECT COURSES
Speculative Fiction: Migrant Dystopias, Undergraduate Course (47) | 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
Postcolonial Studies: Borders and Violence, 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
Associate Editor for Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review | UBC, 2020-2021
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
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: June 21, 2021
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, 2018-Ongoing
Assistant Professor, Department of English, City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong, 2012-2018
BOOK MANUSCRIPT
Refugee Lifeworlds: Aphasia and the Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia (under contract with Temple University Press) deploys aphasia as a critical analytic for theorizing the afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia, bridging the fields of Critical Refugee Studies, Transpacific Cold War Studies, and Critical Disability Studies. Derived from the Greek etymology aphatos (which literally means “without speech”), aphasia is a medical term that describes the disruption of language in the aftermath of brain injury. In my book, I ask what happens if we route aphasia through Cambodia and Cambodia through aphasia?
MAJOR PROJECTS
"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).
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
"On Names and Resonances," Forum contribution on the work of Souvankham Thommavongsa, Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, Issue 242, Spring 2020, 140-142. [published online March 2021]
“Boneyards of the Cold War.” Brick: A Literary Journal, Issue 105, Spring 2020.
“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.
“‘To the Intellectuals of the West’: Rithy Panh’s The Elimination and Genealogies of the Cambodian Genocide.” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Issue 35 (Spring 2016): 155-171. (Co-authored with Madeleine Thien).
PODCASTS
"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
Faculty of Arts Graduate Research Assistant (RA) Support Grant, SSHRC Explore, UBC, May 1, 2021-May 31, 2022.
UBC Scholarly Publication Fund Grant, VP Research and Innovation Office, UBC, 2021-2022.
Theatre Initiative Seed Grant, Interdisciplinary Historical Research Cluster, UBC, 2020-2021.
Workshop/Seed Grant, Interdisciplinary Historical Research Cluster, UBC, 2020-2021.
Wall Scholar Grant, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Research, UBC, 2020-2021.
Hampton New Faculty Research Grant, Hampton Fund, UBC, 2019-2021.
Arts Student Remote Work on Campus Initiative (ASRWC), Dean of Arts Endowment Fund, UBC, 2020, Completed.
Internal Arts International Travel Grant, SSHRC Internal, UBC, 2020-2021, Completed.
SELECT PRESENTATIONS
"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.
EVENT ORGANIZATION / PARTICIPATION / MODERATION
To be updated.
SELECT COURSES
Speculative Fiction: Migrant Dystopias, Undergraduate Course (47) | 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
Postcolonial Studies: Borders and Violence, 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
Associate Editor for Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review | UBC, 2020-2021
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
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: June 21, 2021
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