The Program in Critical Theory Welcomes Visiting Scholar Dr. Richard Tran

Dr. Richard Tran is a scholar of queer studies in the Asian context. His first book, Queer Vietnam: A History of Gender Transgression in the early Twentieth-Century, 1920-1945, is forthcoming with Stanford University Press. He is presently working on another project tracing the idea of the “human” in Vietnam from the French colonial period to the middle of the twentieth-century. He is an executive board member and treasurer of the Vietnam Studies Group of the Association for Asian Studies.