Qui Ha Nguyen

Qui-Ha Hoang Nguyen is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale University, MacMillan Center for Southeast Asian Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies and Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies from University of Southern California. Her research interests include Vietnamese cinema and culture, cultural Cold War, Global Asian cinema, gender and feminist studies, postcolonialism, and transnational film/media industry. Her research has been published in books and journals such as Film Stardom in Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia on Screen Southeast of Now Journal, Visual Anthropology Journal, Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities. Nguyen’s current book project, Figuring Women in Vietnamese Revolutionary Cinema (1945 – 1975): Representation, Emotion, and Agency is a study of women’s lived experiences, emotions, and agency on and off-screen in wartime Vietnam, which offers an alternative narrative about women’s subjectivity in film industry and history of warfare.  Continuing her interest in the relationship dynamics among gender, state, and transnational flows of media, Nguyen’s second research project explores how Vietnamese and Vietnamese American women producers/filmmakers and creative laborers reshape and transcend film industry and at the same time insert their artistic and economic roles in post-war era. She teaches an advanced undergraduate course on Southeast Asian cinema at Yale.