Nhã Ca’s At Night I Hear the Cannons (Đêm nghe tiếng đại bác, 1966) poignantly captures the moment when the Vietnam War began encroaching on civilian life in Saigon. Set in the mid-1960s, the novel centers on a northern Vietnamese family of modest means who emigrated to Saigon when the country was divided a decade […]
“Vietnamese people love Christmas!” That’s what I usually say when someone asks me whether I celebrate the holiday, and I try to explain why I am both a lifelong Buddhist and a Christmas enthusiast. But the real answer is a little more complicated. I was a baby when my family came to the US as
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What makes a good job talk? I think about this question almost every winter. Not only do I receive this question from junior scholars that are on the market, my department has hired almost every year since my arrival at UConn, so I have listened to lots of job talks by this point. If you’re
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Going on the academic job market for the first time was a profoundly weird experience for me. The process seemed completely divorced from everything I learned in grad school. Why did the application process bear so little resemblance to the very training that was a necessary qualification for the job? If you’re reading this post,
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