Thuy Linh Tu Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis; Director of American Studies New York University, Ph.D., M.A., American Studies, 2003 Bates College, B.A., English, 1994

Thuy Linh Tu is the author of The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion and 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). Her writings also appear in the journals American Quarterly (2010) and Wasifiri (2005), the anthology AsianAmerica.Net (Routledge, 2003) as well as in numerous artist and exhibition catalogs.

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

Publications and Professional Work:

The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion (Duke UP, 2011)

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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