Monographs

Loss in Perpetuity: Necrovalue, Iterative Vietnam, and the Racial Mediation of Permanent War (in progress)

Articles & Reviews

“Towards a Critical Pedagogy of Introduction: Ethnic Studies as ‘General
Education’ after AB-1460.” (Co-Authored with Ryan Buyco, May Lin, Simmy Makhijani, Saugher Nojan, and Wendi Yamashita). AAPI Nexus Journal: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Policy, Practice and Community. Forthcoming 2023/2024.

“The Labor of Absolution: National Detritus and the Op-Ed Form of the Vietnamese Refugee.” Critical Ethnic Studies 6.2. January 2021.  

“Specular Vietnam and the Cinematics of Distraction” (in a Collaborative Review of Forgetting Vietnam). Verge: Studies in Global Asias 5.2. Fall 2019. 

Review of Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 1.1. 2015.  

Interviews & Public-Facing

Refugee Returns: Solidarity, Pandemic, and Temporal Intimacies in the Belly of the Beast. Interview with Hồng-Ân Trương. Critical Ethnic Studies blog. October 2020.   

The Humanities Institute Graduate Profile: Trung P.Q. Nguyen. The Humanities Institute blog. April 2020.

Images of the Vietnamese Human: Visuality and the U.S. War in Southeast Asia. UCSC Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Graduate Spotlight. December 2018.

Future Projects

War Material: Encounters in Militarized Ruin and Racialized Remain

Analyzing civic landscape engineering projects as well as the work of Southeast Asian artists, this project examines how the orientation toward material and material itself (metal, mud, remains) gets transformed under conditions of warfare. In doing so, this project identifies strange affinities and possibilities of solidarity between multiple militarized landscapes under U.S. duress — Southeast Asia, Mexico, and the Pacific.

Seventy-Nine Springtimes: People’s War, and the Vietnam-Cuban Aesthetics of Multiplied Revolutions

This project highlights the cinematic and artistic circuits staged between Vietnam and Cuba during both of their protracted revolutions against imperial and colonial occupation. Highlighting how both were drew upon the resources of the other, this project examines how Internationalist solidarities were generated between the transpacific and the hemisphere, and across racial formations.

Digital Friction and Commodified Affect: Race/Sex/Apps

This project imagines how sexual intimacy and other intimate affects get captured within the commodity form for value augmentation through apps as massified data. This project also situates the vexed discourses of race, sex, fetish, and capital as part and parcel of free market, neoliberal fantasies that tech and app-captured social life mediates and obfuscates.

Reverberations of the Agro-Colony: Mediating Discipline and Asian/Southeast Asian Bodies in the Valley

This project examines the techniques of gendered discipline deployed onto Asian immigrants and Southeast Asian refugees in the greater Santa Clara Valley from the late 1800s to the late 1900s. This project seeks to ask how disciplinary techniques deployed in agricultural fields and tech manufacturing factories connect to the amplification of policing apparatuses through post-70s urban blight discourse, thereby connecting the myriad transformations of racial capitalism, to gender, to the justification of repressive institutions.