Bunkong Tuon

Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of Massachusetts)

Ethnic American Literature


Contact Information:


ON LEAVE WINTER AND SPRING, 2012


Office: Humanities 210A

Phone:  518.388.6044

E-mail: tuonb@union.edu

 

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

20th-Century U.S. ethnic literature, Asian American studies, Southeast Asian American literature and history, trauma studies, testimonial discourse, creative writing, translation theory and practice, and folklore studies.

 

CURRENT RESEARCH

 

“A Prayer for the Orphan” (under review)

 

“The Specter of Inauthenticity in Testimonial Discourse: Controversy Surrounding Loung Ung’s First They Killed my Father” (in progress)

 

“Trauma, Inheritance, and the 1.5 Generation in Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge” (in progress)


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

"Cambodian American Literature."  Asian American History and Culture: an Encyclopedia.  Eds. Huping Lin and Allan Austin.  NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2009.


"Cambodia: Memory and Desire."  The Massachusetts Review.  45.3 (2004): 319-329. 

 
"Locating 'Cambodian' in Cambodian American Youth."  The Khmer Institute Website.   (August 2002).