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MARIAM BEEVI LAM
Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature/Vietnamese
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine, 2003

Mariam Lam specializes in Southeast Asian literature and visual cultures, postcolonial criticism, diasporic expressive forms, gender and sexuality, ethnic studies, translation, tourism, and community politics. Her current book project, “Surfin’ Vietnam: Trauma, Historical Memory, and Cultural Politics in 20th Century Literature and Film,” analyzes cultural production and community politics within and across three national contexts: Vietnam, France, and the United States. She is also interested in educational curriculum development and pedagogy. 2004 saw the second edition of her textbook Vietnamese Americans: Lessons in American History (co-edited with James C. Lam and Michael Matsuda. Garden Grove, CA: Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance).

The problems Professor Lam explores include trauma, repression, desire, and psychoanalysis. She is interested in literary and cultural translation, minoritized and “multicultural” aesthetic production, francophilia, and academic disciplinarity. One of her on-going projects is an analysis of the development of Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian American studies in the U.S. academy, and of the politics of transnational scholarship. She is the author of “The Passing of Literary Traditions: The Figure of the Woman from Vietnamese Nationalism to Vietnamese American Transnationalism” (Amerasia Journal, Fall 1997).

Professor Lam's Curriculum Vitae (PDF format).