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Đỗ Thảo Nhi

Đỗ Thảo Nhi ist Doktorandin am Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) und im International PhD Program (IPP). Derzeit arbeitet sie an ihrer Dissertation mit dem Titel „Submission is Power: Remasculinization in Contemporary Asian American Literature“. Vor ihrer Zeit in Gießen studierte und arbeitete sie in Paderborn, Vietnam und Thailand. In Vietnam ist sie als Dozentin für britische und amerikanische Studien tätig und schreibt Prosa und Lyrik. Gelegentlich organisiert sie kleinere Kunstausstellungen in Vietnam.

aktuelles Projekt: "Submission is Power": Remasculinization in Contemporary Asian American Literature
(finanziert im Rahmen des DAAD-GSSP-Doktorandenstipendiums)

ORCID iD: 0009-0007-6807-3344

Kontakt

nhi.do@gcsc.uni-giessen.de

Publikationen

Nhi Thảo, Đỗ. “‘The (In)Visible Man’: Renegotiating Asian American Masculinities in the 21st Century.” On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture 13 (2025). <https://doi.org/10.22029/oc.2022.1501>.

Vorträge

Retreats in the Margins: Nature Writing as a Form of Resistance in World of Wonder: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Conference “Forest Cabins, Garden Sheds, and Other Niches: Spaces of Retreat, Social Transformation and the Potentiality of Writing”
University of Giessen, Germany, 2026.

Power Dynamics of Asian American Masculinities in Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown
Spring International PhD Seminar 2026
Roosevelt Institute of American Studies, the Netherlands, 2026.

The Fall of Sifu’: Aging Asian American Masculinities and the Aging Male Body in Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown
The Fifth International Conference for Research Initiation in Literary and Cultural Studies (V XIIIELC): “Materialities: Bodies, Objects, and Contexts”
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2026.

Mapping the Queer Body in Contemporary Asian American Poetry: Kyka Aoki, Yanyi, and Ocean Vuong
Conference “Queer Journeys in North American Literature and Culture”
University of Innsbruck, Austria, 2025.

(In)Visible Masculinities: Emasculated Stereotypes and Remasculinization in Ocean Vuong’s Works
HERMES Summer School “What Matters in the Humanities?”
Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3, France, 2025.

 



Forschungsinteressen

Men and Masculinity Studies
Critical Masculinities Studies
Asian American Studies
Contemporary British and American Literature
Queer Studies
Gender and Sexuality Studies

Lehre

An der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen und dem GCSC/IPP

  • Wise 26/27: Seminar: "Critical Masculinities Studies and Representations of Gender in Contemporary American Literature"
  • WiSe 25/26: Seminar: "Introduction to Asian American Literature."
  • IPP Workshop: "Introduction to Masculinity Studies" (2025).

eingeladener Vorträge

  • "(Soft)Masculinities and Racial Castration in Asian American Studies", Universität Paderborn (2026)