Dr. Anh Alan Nguyen
Visiting Assistant Professor
Leasure Hall 103C
785-532-5738
Dr. Anh Alan Tuan Nguyen completed his Ph.D. in Communication at the University of NewMexico in 2024. His research areas center critical (inter)cultural communication; critical rhetoric of belonging, citizenship, and coalition; Asian/American diasporic queer critiques; and Asian/American media representation and activism. Investing intersectional lenses into studying
identity politics, his current publications articulate Asian/American self- and re-presentational projects that challenge and renew ideological implications of desirable citizenships embedded in ethno-racial purity, capitalist productivity, and reproductive sustainability within and beyond media contexts. At present, Dr. Nguyen is working on a book chapter titled: “Flipping queer citizenships: Participatory autoethnography of transnational Asian America through WeHo’s
Made in Asia”. He also develops his first book named “Dis)connecting incommensurable relationalities: Aesthetics of desirable citizenships & ethics of solidarities in Vietnamese American diasporic media”. In this book, he incorporates critical diasporic rhetoric into reading the epistemology of interethnic solidarity against anti-Asian hate incidents in SBTN, Saigon Broadcasting Television Network whose headquarter is in Orange County, California. Beside top paper awards given by the National Communication Association, Central States Communication Association, and Western States Communication Association conferences, Dr. Nguyen was named among The Glenda Lewis Critical Race Scholars at the University of New Mexico.
Select Publications:
Nguyen. A. A. T. (2024). Decolonizing identitarian essentialism in Asian American social media activism. In P. Santos & C. Muneri (Ed., pp.45-66). Reading justice claims on social media: Perspectives from the Global South. Palgrave Mcmillan.
Nguyen, A. A. T; Ding, Z, & Eguchi, S. (2024). Asian American transnationalism: Queer diasporic critique on Netflix’s Bling Empire. Journal of Critical Studies in Media Communication, 41(1), 51-67. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2023.2276109.
Oloruntobi, T.; Nguyen, A. A. T; & Eguchi, S. (2023). Interrogating transnationalities:
Collaborative autoethnography of becoming and being “International” in the academicindustrial complex. In A. Atay, S. Eguchi; & G. Pindi. (Ed., pp.129-155). Transnationalizing critical intercultural communication: Legacy, relevance, and future. PeterLang.
Nguyen, A. A. T. (2022). Reviews of Queering the global Filipina body: Contested
nationalism in the Filipina/o diaspora. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 9(3),245-248.
Nguyen, A. A. T. (2022). Representational politics in the film series “Asian Americans”: The contestation of identity essentialism. Journal of Communication Inquiry. DOI: 10.1177/01968599221096644.