I’ve hopped across the pond! My most sincere gratitude to Caroline Laurent (AUP) for organizing a panel on “Transcultural Francophonies: South-East Asian Perspectives on French Studies” at The Society for French Studies Annual Conference at Newcastle University this past week. I presented a paper on Kim Thúy and Linda Lê entitled “The Things We Carry: Writing, Seeing, and ‘Representing’ Việt Kiều Literature,” bringing Francophone writing into debates about representativeness in Asian American Studies (namely, Lisa Lowe and David Palumbo-Liu). I was particularly happy to reunite with fellow Hamilton College alum, Elizabeth Collins (Penn) whom I met for the first time back in 2016 while I was studying in Paris with Hamilton in France.
Next up: a brief trip to Paris before I head to Vietnam for immersive language training!
