The Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University
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Thuy Linh Tu

Thuy Linh Tu

Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies , Social and Cultural Analysis
New York University, Ph.D., M.A., American Studies, 2003
Bates College, B.A., English, 1994

Areas of Research/Interest: Asian American studies, popular/visual studies, and immigration and labor studies.



Thuy Linh Tu is the co-editor of Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America (Duke University Press, 2007) and Technicolor: Race and Technology in Everyday Life (NYU Press, 2001). She is currently completing The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans, Fashion Design, and the Cultural Economy of Asian Chic, a book about the political economy of fashion and Asian Americans' role in New York's industry. Her writings appear in the anthology AsianAmerica.Net (Routledge, 2003) and the journal Wasifiri (2005), as well as in numerous artist and exhibition catalogs.

Select Publications:

Forthcoming:

The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans, Fashion Design, and the Cultural Economy of Asian Chic.

Edited Collections:

Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America, co-edited with Mimi Thi Nguyen (Duke University Press, 2007).

Technicolor: Race and Technology in Everyday Life, co-edited with Alondra Nelson and Alicia Hines (NYU Press, 2001).


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