Essays
- “no refuge: a provocation.” Refugee History. Oct. 24. 2024.
- “Dispatches: Writing In/During Crisis.” The New Quarterly: Canadian Writers and Writing 170 (Spring 2024): 6-32.
- “First Readers.” Grain: The Journal of Eclectic Writing 50.3 (Spring 2023): 64-68.
- “Snow and Blowjobs.” Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose (25th Anniversary Edition). Eds. Barbara Tran, Monique Truong, and Khoi Luu. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2023.
- “Waiting, Resolution.” PRISM international 60.4 (Summer 2022): 79-89.
- “Four Photos.” The Malahat Review 216 (Autumn 2021): 11-18. Republished in 2022 Emerge Anthology, Lambda Literary
- “An Acute Accent.” The New Quarterly: Canadian Writers & Writing 159 (Summer 2021): 16-20.
- “The Migrant Rain.” Brick, A Literary Journal 107 (Summer 2021): 11-18. Republished in Literary Hub
On Cinema
- “The Immigrant’s Could Have Been: On Celine Song’s Past Lives” Ricepaper Magazine (2023)
- “To Hell with Realism.” Queen’s Quarterly (Spring 2023): 47-53.
- “What Is Refugee Cinema About?” MUBI Notebook (2022)
- “On India Song, Pain and Glory, and Vive L’Amour.” Brick, A Literary Journal 108 (Winter 2022): 101-102.
- “Becoming Refugees.” Boat People, dir. Ann Hui. Current: The Criterion Collection (2022)
- “Three Colors: Blue in One Shot” MUBI Notebook (2022)
Special Issues
- “Something Personal: Archives and Methods for Critical Refugee Studies in Canada.” Spec. issue of ESC: English Studies in Canada. 45.3 (2021). Eds. Thy Phu and Vinh Nguyen.
- “small, deferred: On Souvankham Thammavongsa’s Writing.” Spec. Forum of Canadian Literature 242 (2021): 118-143.
- “Vietnam, War, and the Global Imagination.” Spec. issue of Canadian Review of American Studies 48.3 (2018). Eds. Tim August, Evyn Lê Espiritu, and Vinh Nguyen.
Journal Articles
- “Representing Sanctuary: On Flatness and Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre” Migration and Society 4 (2021): 47-61.
- “Refugeetude: When Does a Refugee Stop Being a Refugee?” Social Text 139, 37.2 (2019): 109-131.
- “Commemorating Freedom: The Fortieth Anniversary of the ‘Fall of Saigon’ in Canada” Canadian Review of American Studies 48.3 (2018): 464-486.
- “Queer Intimacy and the Impasse: Reconsidering My Beautiful Laundrette.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 48.2 (2017): 155-66.
- “Refugeography in ‘Post-Racial’ America: Bao Phi’s Activist Poetry.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 41.3 (2016): 171-93.
- “Me-search, Hauntings, and Critical Distance.” Life Writing 12.4 (2015): 467-77.
- “Refugee Gratitude: Narrating Success and Intersubjectivity in Kim Thúy’s Ru.” Canadian Literature 219 (2013): 17-36.
Book Chapters
- “Slanted Views: Teaching Asian North American Queer Films and Videos” (With Donald Goellnicht). Teaching Asian North American Texts. Ed. Jennifer Ho and Jenny Wills. New York: MLA Options for Teaching (2022): 193-204.
- “Vietnamese Canadian Refugee Aesthetics.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture. Ed. Josephine Lee, Floyd Cheung, Jennifer Ho, Anita Mannur, and Cathy Schlund-Vials. Oxford UP (2019).
- “A Journey to Freedom: Human Rights Discourse and Refugee Memory” The Subject(s) of Human Rights: Crises, Violations, and Asian/American Critique. Eds. Cathy Schlund-Vials, Guy Beauregard, and Hsiu-chuan Lee. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2019. 74-92.
- “Ann Hui’s Boat People: Documenting Vietnamese Refugees in Hong Kong.” Looking Back on the Vietnam War: Twenty-First Century Perspectives. Eds. Brenda M. Boyle and Jeehyun Lim. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2016. 94-109.
- “Nước/Water: Oceanic Spatiality and the Vietnamese Diaspora.” Migration by Boat: discourses of trauma, exclusion, and survival. Ed. Lynda Mannik. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016. 65-79
- “Affect.” The John Hopkins Guide to Critical and Cultural Theory. Ed. Martin Kreiswirth, Imre Szeman, Cymene Howe and Andrew Pendakis. John Hopkins UP (forthcoming).
- “Refuge.” The SAGE Encyclopedia of Refugee Studies. Eds. Critical Refugee Studies Collective. New York: Sage Publishing (forthcoming).
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