February 20, 2024
Lecture by scholar Monica Trieu on Feb. 23
Monica Trieu will speak about the experiences of Asian Americans in the Midwest at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 23, via livestrem in Leadership Studies Town Hall. The hour-long lecture is titled "Midwestern Asian Americans, Racialized Visibility, and Internalized Racism." To watch via Zoom, please register in advance.
Trieu is an associate professor of American studies and Asian American studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Purdue University. She received her doctorate in sociology, with an emphasis in Asian American studies, from the University of California, Irvine.
Trieu's books include "Identity Construction Among Chinese-Vietnamese Americans: Being, Becoming, and Belonging" and "Fighting Invisibility: Asian Americans in the Midwest." A selection of her scholarship also appears in the Journal of Asian American Studies, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Trieu's lecture is part of the English Department's 33rd Annual Cultural Studies Symposium, which takes "The Midwest" as its theme this year. Trieu will draw on research from her recent book to explore how the Midwest, like the rest of the United States, is a historically racialized space that reflects Asian American narratives of discrimination, racism and internalized racism.
"We are thrilled to have as our keynote speaker one of the foremost experts on Asian Americans in the Midwest, Professor Monica Trieu," said Greg Eiselein, professor of English. "Her work examines how Asian Americans were often invisible or unrecognized and poorly understood by the larger culture for decades in the Midwest. But her research also reveals the ways Asian Americans have resisted dominant stereotyping as well as internalized racism."
For more information about Trieu's work, visit her website.
The event is sponsored by the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences and the department's Graduate Track in Cultural Studies.