Ph.D.; History, Yale University
MA; Asian Studies, Cornell University
BA; Comparative Literature, Brigham Young University
She received her doctorate from Yale University on Chinese and Vietnamese intellectual history
and issues of translation. Her dissertation, "Tenacious Texts: Vietnam, China and Radical Cultural Intersections,
1890-1930," analyzes cultural negotiation between Vietnam and China and its effect on Vietnamese cultural
discourse. As a Luce Doctoral Fellow in Southeast Asian Studies, she conducted research at the Australian
National University in 2004. Her MA thesis recentered modern Cambodian prose fiction by using postcolonial
theory to help counterbalance French literary scholarship on the subject. Her research languages include
Vietnamese, Cambodian [Khmer], Chinese, French, and Latin.
