Minh Huynh Vu

Minh is a doctoral candidate in American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a Graduate Certificate in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration. Researching material cultures of discard and decay amidst the everyday aftermaths of war, they are writing a dissertation—entitled “On Cardboard and the Endless Enfoldments of Empire”—that traces corrugated fiberboard as an infrastructural material, metonym, and method of U.S. militarism cross the 20th and 21st centuries.

Their work appears in a variety of academic and creative non-fiction venues and has been externally supported by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University; Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies; Cornell Migrations Summer Institute; Ford Foundation; and Mellon Foundation. Prior to graduate study, they received bachelor’s degrees in English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (with distinction) from Yale University, where they are currently a fellow with the Graduate Writing Lab and an instructor with the Yale Prison Education Initiative.
 

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