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Barbara Widenor Maggs
Dr. Maggs is an Associate of the Russian and East European Center of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her publications include "Cosmopolitanism in Early Travel Literature: Alexandre de Rhodes in Vietnam," : Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, Vol. 6, 2001, and "Four Europeans and the Court of Old Vietnam: Travelers' Ventures and Rivalries in the Mid-Eighteenth Century," in The Tamkang Review, Vol. 31, No. 4 - Vol. 32, No.1, 2001.
Thi Dang
Thi Dang, nickname is Chuso, was born in Saigon, Vietnam and came to the United States when he was 22. Now, an engineer from Intel Corp., Dang enjoyed taking pictures of anything and everything as a way to channel his creativity needs. Dang is currently living in Washington state.
Phuong Tran
Phuong Tran produces for The Osgood Files on CBS Radio in New York City. Born in the US in 1975, she attended the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University as a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow. During her graduate fellowship, she worked on a part-memoir manuscript. She continues to freelance for different media and will return to Vietnam spring 2003 to work on a Discovery International documentary on wedding traditions around the world.
Kenneth Champeon
Kenneth Champeon is an American writer based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He spent six months in Bombay and has lived in Thailand for over three years. He contributes regularly to ThingsAsian and writes reviews of Asian literature for BookPage. Visit his web page at http://kenneth.champeon.com or email him at
Martha Collins
Martha Collins is an American poet and translator who has had a long association with Vietnam. She is the author of four books of poems, the most recent of which, Some T'hings Words Can Do, was published by Sheep Meadow Press in 1998. She is the co-translator, with the author, of Nguyen Quang Thieu's The Women Carry River Water, which was published in 1997 by University of Massachusetts Press and won an award from the American Literary Translators Association. She is Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College.
Lam Thi My Da
Lam Thi My Da was born in 1949, in Quang Binh Province, Vietnam. She now lives in Hue. She graduated from the Writers' College in Vietnam and also studied literature at Gorky University, Russia. With Xuan Quynh, Phem Tien Duat and Anh Tho, she is among the group of important poets who began their careers during the American War and who have gone on to create the foundations of post-war poetry. She has published many books in Vietnam, including Dedicated to a Dream in 1998 and The Adventure of the Phoenix also in 1998.
Thuy Dinh
Thuy Dinh is a writer and attorney from Washington D.C. Ms. Dinh graduated cum laude with a B.A. in English and French literature from the University of Virginia (1984). She also received her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law (1987). She is co-translator, with Martha Collins, of Lam Thi My Da\'s poetry in the upcoming poetry anthology Six Vietnamese Poets, published by Curbstone Press in 2001.
Christopher Goscha
Christopher Goscha is currently an assistant professor in history at the University of Lyon II and a research member of the Institut d\'Asie Orientale(Lyon, France). Dr. Goscha received his PhD at the Sorbonne in the year of 2000. His dissertation entitled: \"The Asian Context of the Franco-Vietnamese War: Networks, relations and economy ().
Uyen Nicole Duong
Uyen Nicole Duong or Duong Nhu Nguyen, was born in Hoi An Quang Nam, brought up in Hue and Saigon (former capital of South Vietnam). Uyen Nicole Duong received her B.S. in Journalism/ Communication from Southern Illinois University, J.D. from University of Houston (Texas), and LLM from Harvard Law School (Cambridge MA). She is believed to be the first Vietnamese Municipal Judge in the United States (Serving in Texas: Associate Municipal Judge, City of Houston, and Magistrate for State of Texas; honoured by the American Bar Association at "Minority Women in the Judiciary" conference -- NYC, 1992). Practicing law but she sees herself primarily as a writer, and writes in two languages: Vietnamese and English. Her pieces in Vietnamese appeared in numerous literary magazines, her English's in SongVan Magazine, and Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal. Duong Nhu Nguyen's first book, 'Mui huong que' - a collection of short stories, was published by Van Nghe Publisher in 1999. Her short story "The young woman who practiced singing" won two awards, one of which was the Stuart Miller Writing Award organised by District of Columbia Bar Association (1998). The short story "The Ghost of Ha Tay" was a finalist selection for the Columbine Award of the Moondance Film Festival 2001. Duong Nhu Nguyen also wrote articles, critiques. Her article "Gender issues in Vietnam – The Vietnamese Woman: Warrior and Poet" appeared in the Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, University of Washington, College of Law, March 2001.
Publications:
- Mui huong que (short story collection. CA: Van Nghe Publisher, 1999)
- Gender issues in Vietnam – The Vietnamese Woman: Warrior and Poet (Article. University of Washington, College of Law: Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal March 2001).
- The woman who practiced singing (short story. Songvan Magazine, 1998)
- The Ghost of Ha Tay (short story. Wordbridge Magazine, 2002)
D. L. Ashliman
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/ashliman.html
Professor Ashliman retired from the University of Pittsburgh in 2000 and now conducts his folklore research from southern Utah. He receives his M.A and Ph.D. from Rutgers University. His publications include
- Voices from the Past: The Cycle of Life in Indo-European Folktales, second edition, expanded and revised. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1995. ISBN 0--1. 495 pages. First edition 1993.
- Once upon a Time: The Story of European Folktales. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, External Studies Program, 1994. 235 pages.
- A Guide to Folktales in the English Language: Based on the Aarne-Thompson Classification System. Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature, vol. 11. Westport (Connecticut), New York, and London: Greenwood Press, 1987. ISBN 0-313-25961-5. 384 pages. Designated as an "outstanding reference source" by the American Library Association.
- Ph.D. dissertation: The American West in Nineteenth-Century German Literature. Rutgers University, 1969. Dissertation Abstracts 2959-A. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Order number 7000572.
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