Doctoral Student Fellow
Ph.D candidate, Department of English
Global Vietnams and the Cold War Cultural Imagination
Anh Nguyen is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of English at New York University. She works at the intersection of postcolonial literature and theory and global Cold War histories with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region, alongside interests in transpacific studies and nuclear criticism. Her dissertation, Global Vietnams and the Cold War Cultural Imagination, traces the myriad manifestations of “Vietnam” within global Cold War literary and cultural production, showing its crucial yet underdiscussed role in shaping imaginaries of transnational connection leading up to the 1990s era of globalization. Anh received a B.A in Economics and English Literature from Franklin and Marshall College, and a M.A with Distinction in English from Georgetown University. Her M.A thesis, “The Novel of Unlearning: Education, Development, and Interracial Intimacies in Cold War Africa,” was the winner of the 2019-2020 Presidential Master’s Prize by the American Comparative Literature Association.