Mimi Thi Nguyen

Mimi Thi Nguyen
Born	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Occupation	Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies
Ethnicity	Vietnamese American
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Notable works	Evolution of a Race Riot zine

Mimi Thi Nguyen (née Thanh-Huong Thi Nguyen; born in 1974) is a Vietnamese-born American scholar,^[1] punk^[2] and zine author.^[3]

Biography

Born in 1974 in Ho Chi Minh City to Hiep and Lien Nguyen, Nguyen earned a bachelor's degree in Women's Studies and a doctorate in Ethnic Studies from University of California, Berkeley. Her master's degree was in American Studies from New York University.^[4]

Nguyen earned tenure in 2012 at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.^[5] She is a frequent conference keynote speaker or invited panelist,^[6] and received the Outstanding Book Award in Cultural Studies from the Association of Asian American Studies, 2014^[7] for her first single-author monograph, The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt and Other Refugee Passages.

Nguyen is possibly best known for her compilation zine Evolution of a Race Riot first published in 1997 with a second issue in 2002,^[8] in which she and contributors of color challenged racism in the punk scene.^[9] She also publishes the zine Slander and is a former Punk Planet columnist and Maximumrocknroll contributor. In June 2013, Sarah McCarry's Guillotine ("a series of erratically published chapbooks focused on revolutionary non-fiction") released PUNK, a conversation between Nguyen and Golnar Nikpour.

Selected works

Books

• Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America, edited with Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu^[10]
• The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages^[11]

Zines

• Aim Your Dick^[12]
• Evolution of a Race Riot,^[13] editor
• Guillotine Series #4: Punk,^[14] written with Golnar Nikpour
• Race Riot,^[15] editor
• Race Riot Project Directory,^[16] editor
• Slander^[17]
• Slant^[18]

References

1. "Mimi Thi Nguyen". University of Illinois. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
2. "about thread & circuits". Retrieved 19 March 2014.
3. "Mimi Thi Nguyen". OCLC. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
4. "MIMI THI NGUYEN, Associate Professor Gender & Women’s Studies, Asian American Studies, Unit for Criticism". Retrieved 27 March 2014.
5. "MIMI THI NGUYEN, Associate Professor Gender & Women’s Studies, Asian American Studies, Unit for Criticism". Retrieved 27 March 2014.
6. "MIMI THI NGUYEN, Associate Professor Gender & Women’s Studies, Asian American Studies, Unit for Criticism". Retrieved 27 March 2014.
7. "GWS Professor Mimi Thi Nguyen awarded by the Association of Asian American Studies". University of Illinois. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
8. "Evolution of a race riot". OCLC. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
9. "Evolution of a Race Riot". ZineWiki. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
10. "Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America". Duke University Press. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
11. "The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages". Duke University Press. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
12. "Aim Your Dick". OCLC. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
13. "Evolution of a Race Riot". OCLC. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
14. "Guillotine Series #4: Punk". OCLC. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
15. "Race Riot". OCLC. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
16. "Race Riot Project Directory". OCLC. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
17. "Slander". OCLC. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
18. "Slant". OCLC. Retrieved 19 March 2014.