Julie T. Underhill
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- School: University of California Berkeley
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- Department: East Asian Studies
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Sproul Plaza
Berkeley, CA - 94720 - Dates at University of California Berkeley: January 2017 - May 2018
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Biography
Julie Underhill is a/an Lecturer in the California State University department at California State University
University of California Berkeley - East Asian Studies
Speaker, Content Creator, Education Professional
Julie Thi
Underhill
San Francisco Bay Area
Julie Thi Underhill is a scholar, teacher, writer, and artist with diverse disciplinary strengths. Julie studied film/video, history, and fine art at The Evergreen State College (BA, Liberal Arts, 2000). From 2007 to 2012, Julie was a Chancellor’s Fellow at UC Berkeley, where she completed her MA (Ethnic Studies, 2009).
Julie is an accomplished instructor and public speaker. In 2009, Julie began teaching humanities and social science courses at UC Berkeley, first as a teaching assistant then as a solo lecturer. Julie was a delegate to the UN Human Rights Council's Forum on Minority Issues in Geneva in 2011 and 2013. She gave the plenary lecture as an Emerging Scholar at the Historical Justice and Memory Conference at Swinburne University in Melbourne in 2012. That same year, she earned UCB’s Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award for excellent teaching. Julie became a Lecturer at California College of the Arts in 2016 and at San Francisco State University in 2017.
Julie is a nonfiction writer with a strong multi-genre writing portfolio. Since 1990, she has published her writing in magazines, journals, books, websites, and blogs. She does freelance editing and beta reading of fiction and nonfiction manuscripts. A member of two Bay Area authors’ groups, she has an enduring commitment to the written word, as an individual and within communities.
Julie has also freelanced for over ten years as a photographer, videographer, video editor, web designer, and graphic designer. In 2005, she received a Rockefeller Fellowship for "Second Burial," a documentary she filmed in Việt Nam. In 2014, Julie was invited by the Smithsonian Institute to be a Spotlight Photographer for A Day In The Life of Asian America. She maintains creative practices in photography, film, poetry, essay, performance, and the fine arts. As a writer and researcher, she holds special interest in history, politics, race/ethnicity, memory, law, justice, representation, and the arts.
Experience
California College of the Arts
Lecturer
Sole instructor for multiple writing and lit courses and co-instructor of one Critical Theory course. Organized and implemented instructional programs using interdisciplinary teaching methods and media, including literature, essays, film, visual media, performance, and spoken word, for the diverse student body of CCA. Supported encouraging and honest dialogue and learning. Supervised and graded all assignments and presentations. Encouraged critical thinking and persuasive argumentation. Established and maintained good relations with students and staff. Mentored and collaborated with a teaching assistant. Offered feedback, edits, guidance, problem-solving, recommendation letters, and moral support.
SOS4Students
Academic Coach
Provides compassionate, responsive, and high-caliber academic coaching to improve students' executive functioning skills, with attention to organization, time management, project planning and execution, paper writing, note taking, test preparation. Works closely with both students and guardians, one-on-one, to ensure holistic progress for students. Evaluates neuropsychological assessments, IEPs, and 504 plans. Individualizes advancement strategies for each student, based upon their challenges, strengths, unique learning style, and working memory capacities, with attention to both immediate and long-term needs. Facilitates workshops for students and parents.
San Francisco State University
Lecturer
Sole instructor for four courses in the College of Ethnic Studies. Organized and implemented instructional programs using different teaching methods and media, including literature, essays, film, visual media, performance, and spoken word, for diverse student body. Supported encouraging and honest dialogue and learning. Supervised and graded all assignments and presentations. Encouraged critical thinking and persuasive argumentation. Established and maintained good relations with students and staff. Offered feedback, edits, guidance, problem-solving, recommendation letters, and moral support.
Education
The Evergreen State College
BA
Liberal Arts (Social History; Art; Film/Video)
Studied social history through an interdisciplinary framework, with a strong emphasis on the humanities and social sciences. Studied and created Fine Art, Photography, and Film/Video. Exhibited monoprints, assemblage sculpture, and photography. Senior film/video project, an experimental documentary, explored postwar memory as an intergenerational legacy of war.Cultural Diversity Award
Foundation Grant
Foundation Scholarship
The Sage Colleges - Russell Sage College
Vietnam: A Journey of Learning and Reconciliation
A post-war study tour throughout Viet Nam
Toured Việt Nam extensively to visit sites of war, with an emphasis on learning the history and politics of significant events. Conducted landscape photography and portraiture. Completed a photographic series of an Agent Orange rehabilitation center and orphanage, in collaboration with a US psychologist who specializes in treating American veterans of the war.University of Guanajuato | Instituto Allende
Photography and Spanish
Studied documentary photography and introductory Spanish at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende. Completed documentary street photography, landscapes, and portraiture, in and around San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato. Furthered black-and-white darkroom techniques. Received daily intensive Spanish tutoring.Centro de Intercambio y Solidaridad | San Salvador, El Salvador
Spanish
Received intensive Spanish tutoring, to facilitate preproduction documentary interviews with female combatants of the civil war in El Salvador, for a film on postwar reconciliation talks between Vietnamese and Salvadoran women.Portland Art Museum | Northwest Film Center
Production management, documentary, and videography courses
Studied film/video production and postproduction to advance skills as a documentary and fine art filmmaker. Emphasis on production management, documentary theory and production, and video cinematography and production. Awarded a tuition scholarship from Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs.UC Berkeley
MA
Ethnic Studies
MA in Comparative Ethnic Studies. Work focused on the Cham ethnic minority in the U.S. who have emigrated from Việt Nam and Cambodia, with specific attention to historical memories and cultural productions. Specialized in the areas of war, genocide, historical justice, memory studies, indigenous studies, and women-of-color feminism.UC Berkeley
Chancellor's Fellow
Awarded UC Berkeley’s top doctoral fellowship for groundbreaking research on the Chăm ethnic minority from Việt Nam and Cambodia, documented and studied since 1999. Scholarly attention to settler colonial genocide (since 1471), French colonialism (1848-1946), war in Viet Nam and Cambodia, (1946-1979), and migration (1975-present).UC Berkeley
Graduate Student Instructor & Lecturer
Assisted professors in Ethnic Studies and Asian American Studies courses (2009-2013). Sole instructor for Reading and Comp courses in Asian American Studies and Native American Studies (2013-2015). Organized and implemented instructional programs using different teaching methods and media, for diverse student body. Supported encouraging and honest dialogue and learning. Supervised and graded all assignments and presentations. Encouraged critical thinking and persuasive argumentation. Established and maintained good relations with students and staff. Offered feedback, edits, guidance, problem-solving, recommendation letters, and moral support.University Press Books
Events/Marketing Assistant, Bookseller, Asian Arts Program Director
Assisted the Events Coordinator and Marketing/Sales Director. Contributed to readings, discussions, and workshops, through events management, publicity, fundraising, Wordpress web content, writing, graphic design, and facilitation. Worked closely with authors and publishers to ensure the success of each event, often conducting Q&A between readers and audiences. Coordinated Asian Arts program. Sold books in-store and off-site with attention to quality customer service and individualized recommendations.
Publications
On Thích Quảng Đức, Bà Đặng Thị Kim, and Self Immolation
diaCRITICS
I comment upon the historical religious practice of self-immolation and the political suicide of Tạ Phong Tần’s mother, Bà Đặng Thị Kim Liêng, before reprinting an article about the circumstances surrounding her July 2012 death to protest her daughter's arrest and imprisonment.
On Thích Quảng Đức, Bà Đặng Thị Kim, and Self Immolation
diaCRITICS
I comment upon the historical religious practice of self-immolation and the political suicide of Tạ Phong Tần’s mother, Bà Đặng Thị Kim Liêng, before reprinting an article about the circumstances surrounding her July 2012 death to protest her daughter's arrest and imprisonment.
Corner Shore, Progress Report, Grandma, Tra Cang Monastery, and Fear of Ambivalence
Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora / University of Washington Press
Pairing image and text, 'Troubling Borders' showcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. The collection features compelling storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women. The diverse voices featured here have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization.
On Thích Quảng Đức, Bà Đặng Thị Kim, and Self Immolation
diaCRITICS
I comment upon the historical religious practice of self-immolation and the political suicide of Tạ Phong Tần’s mother, Bà Đặng Thị Kim Liêng, before reprinting an article about the circumstances surrounding her July 2012 death to protest her daughter's arrest and imprisonment.
Corner Shore, Progress Report, Grandma, Tra Cang Monastery, and Fear of Ambivalence
Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora / University of Washington Press
Pairing image and text, 'Troubling Borders' showcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. The collection features compelling storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women. The diverse voices featured here have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization.
diaCRITICIZE: Off The Mark—Wahlberg #CrimingWhileWhite
diaCRITICS
Reflects on Wahlberg’s rise to fame as rapper, actor, and media mogul after his anti-Vietnamese hate crimes committed in Boston, in the city’s largest neighborhood of Dorchester, as a teenager. As the US is also simultaneously rocked by protests over police brutality against people of color, Underhill examines the timing of Wahlberg’s bid to wipe his criminal record.
On Thích Quảng Đức, Bà Đặng Thị Kim, and Self Immolation
diaCRITICS
I comment upon the historical religious practice of self-immolation and the political suicide of Tạ Phong Tần’s mother, Bà Đặng Thị Kim Liêng, before reprinting an article about the circumstances surrounding her July 2012 death to protest her daughter's arrest and imprisonment.
Corner Shore, Progress Report, Grandma, Tra Cang Monastery, and Fear of Ambivalence
Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora / University of Washington Press
Pairing image and text, 'Troubling Borders' showcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. The collection features compelling storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women. The diverse voices featured here have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization.
diaCRITICIZE: Off The Mark—Wahlberg #CrimingWhileWhite
diaCRITICS
Reflects on Wahlberg’s rise to fame as rapper, actor, and media mogul after his anti-Vietnamese hate crimes committed in Boston, in the city’s largest neighborhood of Dorchester, as a teenager. As the US is also simultaneously rocked by protests over police brutality against people of color, Underhill examines the timing of Wahlberg’s bid to wipe his criminal record.
war dreams
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace/Koa Books
Two of my 'war dreams' poems were included in this anthology edited by Maxine Hong Kingston. The book won the 2007 Northern California Book Reviewers Special Award in Publishing the year before Maxine was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2008 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Our veterans writing group continues to meet seasonally in Sebastopol, California.
On Thích Quảng Đức, Bà Đặng Thị Kim, and Self Immolation
diaCRITICS
I comment upon the historical religious practice of self-immolation and the political suicide of Tạ Phong Tần’s mother, Bà Đặng Thị Kim Liêng, before reprinting an article about the circumstances surrounding her July 2012 death to protest her daughter's arrest and imprisonment.
Corner Shore, Progress Report, Grandma, Tra Cang Monastery, and Fear of Ambivalence
Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora / University of Washington Press
Pairing image and text, 'Troubling Borders' showcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. The collection features compelling storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women. The diverse voices featured here have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization.
diaCRITICIZE: Off The Mark—Wahlberg #CrimingWhileWhite
diaCRITICS
Reflects on Wahlberg’s rise to fame as rapper, actor, and media mogul after his anti-Vietnamese hate crimes committed in Boston, in the city’s largest neighborhood of Dorchester, as a teenager. As the US is also simultaneously rocked by protests over police brutality against people of color, Underhill examines the timing of Wahlberg’s bid to wipe his criminal record.
war dreams
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace/Koa Books
Two of my 'war dreams' poems were included in this anthology edited by Maxine Hong Kingston. The book won the 2007 Northern California Book Reviewers Special Award in Publishing the year before Maxine was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2008 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Our veterans writing group continues to meet seasonally in Sebastopol, California.
Maps & Postscript
TrenchArt Monographs: hurry up please its time / Les Figues Press
A new anthology of poetics through collected monographs by Les Figues Press authors. The books in the TrenchArt series are experiments in language, and the aesthetic essays in this anthology investigate the why of those experiments. The essays challenge, too, what an essay looks like, what an essay can do. Manifestos, lists, performative pieces, visual art, critical essays, marginalia, and the entirely unclassifiable—these pieces pull, prod, and play with the concept of “language” from all directions, misdirections, and sometimes no direction at all.
On Thích Quảng Đức, Bà Đặng Thị Kim, and Self Immolation
diaCRITICS
I comment upon the historical religious practice of self-immolation and the political suicide of Tạ Phong Tần’s mother, Bà Đặng Thị Kim Liêng, before reprinting an article about the circumstances surrounding her July 2012 death to protest her daughter's arrest and imprisonment.
Corner Shore, Progress Report, Grandma, Tra Cang Monastery, and Fear of Ambivalence
Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora / University of Washington Press
Pairing image and text, 'Troubling Borders' showcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. The collection features compelling storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women. The diverse voices featured here have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization.
diaCRITICIZE: Off The Mark—Wahlberg #CrimingWhileWhite
diaCRITICS
Reflects on Wahlberg’s rise to fame as rapper, actor, and media mogul after his anti-Vietnamese hate crimes committed in Boston, in the city’s largest neighborhood of Dorchester, as a teenager. As the US is also simultaneously rocked by protests over police brutality against people of color, Underhill examines the timing of Wahlberg’s bid to wipe his criminal record.
war dreams
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace/Koa Books
Two of my 'war dreams' poems were included in this anthology edited by Maxine Hong Kingston. The book won the 2007 Northern California Book Reviewers Special Award in Publishing the year before Maxine was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2008 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Our veterans writing group continues to meet seasonally in Sebastopol, California.
Maps & Postscript
TrenchArt Monographs: hurry up please its time / Les Figues Press
A new anthology of poetics through collected monographs by Les Figues Press authors. The books in the TrenchArt series are experiments in language, and the aesthetic essays in this anthology investigate the why of those experiments. The essays challenge, too, what an essay looks like, what an essay can do. Manifestos, lists, performative pieces, visual art, critical essays, marginalia, and the entirely unclassifiable—these pieces pull, prod, and play with the concept of “language” from all directions, misdirections, and sometimes no direction at all.
Democratic Kampuchea's Genocide of the Cham
diaCRITICS
Through text and image, I discuss the experiences of genocide and the pursuit of justice and healing for the Cham in Cambodia, an ethnic and religious minority persecuted under the Khmer Rouge during Democratic Kampuchea.
On Thích Quảng Đức, Bà Đặng Thị Kim, and Self Immolation
diaCRITICS
I comment upon the historical religious practice of self-immolation and the political suicide of Tạ Phong Tần’s mother, Bà Đặng Thị Kim Liêng, before reprinting an article about the circumstances surrounding her July 2012 death to protest her daughter's arrest and imprisonment.
Corner Shore, Progress Report, Grandma, Tra Cang Monastery, and Fear of Ambivalence
Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora / University of Washington Press
Pairing image and text, 'Troubling Borders' showcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. The collection features compelling storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women. The diverse voices featured here have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization.
diaCRITICIZE: Off The Mark—Wahlberg #CrimingWhileWhite
diaCRITICS
Reflects on Wahlberg’s rise to fame as rapper, actor, and media mogul after his anti-Vietnamese hate crimes committed in Boston, in the city’s largest neighborhood of Dorchester, as a teenager. As the US is also simultaneously rocked by protests over police brutality against people of color, Underhill examines the timing of Wahlberg’s bid to wipe his criminal record.
war dreams
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace/Koa Books
Two of my 'war dreams' poems were included in this anthology edited by Maxine Hong Kingston. The book won the 2007 Northern California Book Reviewers Special Award in Publishing the year before Maxine was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2008 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Our veterans writing group continues to meet seasonally in Sebastopol, California.
Maps & Postscript
TrenchArt Monographs: hurry up please its time / Les Figues Press
A new anthology of poetics through collected monographs by Les Figues Press authors. The books in the TrenchArt series are experiments in language, and the aesthetic essays in this anthology investigate the why of those experiments. The essays challenge, too, what an essay looks like, what an essay can do. Manifestos, lists, performative pieces, visual art, critical essays, marginalia, and the entirely unclassifiable—these pieces pull, prod, and play with the concept of “language” from all directions, misdirections, and sometimes no direction at all.
Democratic Kampuchea's Genocide of the Cham
diaCRITICS
Through text and image, I discuss the experiences of genocide and the pursuit of justice and healing for the Cham in Cambodia, an ethnic and religious minority persecuted under the Khmer Rouge during Democratic Kampuchea.
diaCRITICIZE: On Motherland (Re)turns
diaCRITICS
My first editor's letter, about the dilemmas regarding ‘authentic’ belonging as Vietnamese American of Cham-French and Euro-American descent. I also discuss a trip to Việt Nam undertaken with the only Vietnamese American friend I made while living in Oklahoma from 1986 to 1994.
On Thích Quảng Đức, Bà Đặng Thị Kim, and Self Immolation
diaCRITICS
I comment upon the historical religious practice of self-immolation and the political suicide of Tạ Phong Tần’s mother, Bà Đặng Thị Kim Liêng, before reprinting an article about the circumstances surrounding her July 2012 death to protest her daughter's arrest and imprisonment.
Corner Shore, Progress Report, Grandma, Tra Cang Monastery, and Fear of Ambivalence
Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora / University of Washington Press
Pairing image and text, 'Troubling Borders' showcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. The collection features compelling storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women. The diverse voices featured here have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization.
diaCRITICIZE: Off The Mark—Wahlberg #CrimingWhileWhite
diaCRITICS
Reflects on Wahlberg’s rise to fame as rapper, actor, and media mogul after his anti-Vietnamese hate crimes committed in Boston, in the city’s largest neighborhood of Dorchester, as a teenager. As the US is also simultaneously rocked by protests over police brutality against people of color, Underhill examines the timing of Wahlberg’s bid to wipe his criminal record.
war dreams
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace/Koa Books
Two of my 'war dreams' poems were included in this anthology edited by Maxine Hong Kingston. The book won the 2007 Northern California Book Reviewers Special Award in Publishing the year before Maxine was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2008 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Our veterans writing group continues to meet seasonally in Sebastopol, California.
Maps & Postscript
TrenchArt Monographs: hurry up please its time / Les Figues Press
A new anthology of poetics through collected monographs by Les Figues Press authors. The books in the TrenchArt series are experiments in language, and the aesthetic essays in this anthology investigate the why of those experiments. The essays challenge, too, what an essay looks like, what an essay can do. Manifestos, lists, performative pieces, visual art, critical essays, marginalia, and the entirely unclassifiable—these pieces pull, prod, and play with the concept of “language” from all directions, misdirections, and sometimes no direction at all.
Democratic Kampuchea's Genocide of the Cham
diaCRITICS
Through text and image, I discuss the experiences of genocide and the pursuit of justice and healing for the Cham in Cambodia, an ethnic and religious minority persecuted under the Khmer Rouge during Democratic Kampuchea.
diaCRITICIZE: On Motherland (Re)turns
diaCRITICS
My first editor's letter, about the dilemmas regarding ‘authentic’ belonging as Vietnamese American of Cham-French and Euro-American descent. I also discuss a trip to Việt Nam undertaken with the only Vietnamese American friend I made while living in Oklahoma from 1986 to 1994.
(Im)moveable Feasts—An Interview with Natalia Duong
diaCRITICS
diaCRITIC Julie Thi Underhill met up with Natalia Duong, a performance artist, choreographer, and scholar who’s recently returned to the Bay Area after four years away. Due to their creative and conceptual engagements, Julie’s in-depth conversation with Natalia continues a three-year dialogue about artistic practices, embodied memories, and the lingering proliferations of colonialism and warfare.
On Thích Quảng Đức, Bà Đặng Thị Kim, and Self Immolation
diaCRITICS
I comment upon the historical religious practice of self-immolation and the political suicide of Tạ Phong Tần’s mother, Bà Đặng Thị Kim Liêng, before reprinting an article about the circumstances surrounding her July 2012 death to protest her daughter's arrest and imprisonment.
Corner Shore, Progress Report, Grandma, Tra Cang Monastery, and Fear of Ambivalence
Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora / University of Washington Press
Pairing image and text, 'Troubling Borders' showcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. The collection features compelling storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women. The diverse voices featured here have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization.
diaCRITICIZE: Off The Mark—Wahlberg #CrimingWhileWhite
diaCRITICS
Reflects on Wahlberg’s rise to fame as rapper, actor, and media mogul after his anti-Vietnamese hate crimes committed in Boston, in the city’s largest neighborhood of Dorchester, as a teenager. As the US is also simultaneously rocked by protests over police brutality against people of color, Underhill examines the timing of Wahlberg’s bid to wipe his criminal record.
war dreams
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace/Koa Books
Two of my 'war dreams' poems were included in this anthology edited by Maxine Hong Kingston. The book won the 2007 Northern California Book Reviewers Special Award in Publishing the year before Maxine was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2008 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Our veterans writing group continues to meet seasonally in Sebastopol, California.
Maps & Postscript
TrenchArt Monographs: hurry up please its time / Les Figues Press
A new anthology of poetics through collected monographs by Les Figues Press authors. The books in the TrenchArt series are experiments in language, and the aesthetic essays in this anthology investigate the why of those experiments. The essays challenge, too, what an essay looks like, what an essay can do. Manifestos, lists, performative pieces, visual art, critical essays, marginalia, and the entirely unclassifiable—these pieces pull, prod, and play with the concept of “language” from all directions, misdirections, and sometimes no direction at all.
Democratic Kampuchea's Genocide of the Cham
diaCRITICS
Through text and image, I discuss the experiences of genocide and the pursuit of justice and healing for the Cham in Cambodia, an ethnic and religious minority persecuted under the Khmer Rouge during Democratic Kampuchea.
diaCRITICIZE: On Motherland (Re)turns
diaCRITICS
My first editor's letter, about the dilemmas regarding ‘authentic’ belonging as Vietnamese American of Cham-French and Euro-American descent. I also discuss a trip to Việt Nam undertaken with the only Vietnamese American friend I made while living in Oklahoma from 1986 to 1994.
(Im)moveable Feasts—An Interview with Natalia Duong
diaCRITICS
diaCRITIC Julie Thi Underhill met up with Natalia Duong, a performance artist, choreographer, and scholar who’s recently returned to the Bay Area after four years away. Due to their creative and conceptual engagements, Julie’s in-depth conversation with Natalia continues a three-year dialogue about artistic practices, embodied memories, and the lingering proliferations of colonialism and warfare.
Pasadena
Hayden's Ferry Review/Arizona University Press
My memoir prose poem 'Pasadena' is included in the Short Forms issue of spring/summer.
On Thích Quảng Đức, Bà Đặng Thị Kim, and Self Immolation
diaCRITICS
I comment upon the historical religious practice of self-immolation and the political suicide of Tạ Phong Tần’s mother, Bà Đặng Thị Kim Liêng, before reprinting an article about the circumstances surrounding her July 2012 death to protest her daughter's arrest and imprisonment.
Corner Shore, Progress Report, Grandma, Tra Cang Monastery, and Fear of Ambivalence
Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora / University of Washington Press
Pairing image and text, 'Troubling Borders' showcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. The collection features compelling storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women. The diverse voices featured here have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization.
diaCRITICIZE: Off The Mark—Wahlberg #CrimingWhileWhite
diaCRITICS
Reflects on Wahlberg’s rise to fame as rapper, actor, and media mogul after his anti-Vietnamese hate crimes committed in Boston, in the city’s largest neighborhood of Dorchester, as a teenager. As the US is also simultaneously rocked by protests over police brutality against people of color, Underhill examines the timing of Wahlberg’s bid to wipe his criminal record.
war dreams
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace/Koa Books
Two of my 'war dreams' poems were included in this anthology edited by Maxine Hong Kingston. The book won the 2007 Northern California Book Reviewers Special Award in Publishing the year before Maxine was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2008 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Our veterans writing group continues to meet seasonally in Sebastopol, California.
Maps & Postscript
TrenchArt Monographs: hurry up please its time / Les Figues Press
A new anthology of poetics through collected monographs by Les Figues Press authors. The books in the TrenchArt series are experiments in language, and the aesthetic essays in this anthology investigate the why of those experiments. The essays challenge, too, what an essay looks like, what an essay can do. Manifestos, lists, performative pieces, visual art, critical essays, marginalia, and the entirely unclassifiable—these pieces pull, prod, and play with the concept of “language” from all directions, misdirections, and sometimes no direction at all.
Democratic Kampuchea's Genocide of the Cham
diaCRITICS
Through text and image, I discuss the experiences of genocide and the pursuit of justice and healing for the Cham in Cambodia, an ethnic and religious minority persecuted under the Khmer Rouge during Democratic Kampuchea.
diaCRITICIZE: On Motherland (Re)turns
diaCRITICS
My first editor's letter, about the dilemmas regarding ‘authentic’ belonging as Vietnamese American of Cham-French and Euro-American descent. I also discuss a trip to Việt Nam undertaken with the only Vietnamese American friend I made while living in Oklahoma from 1986 to 1994.
(Im)moveable Feasts—An Interview with Natalia Duong
diaCRITICS
diaCRITIC Julie Thi Underhill met up with Natalia Duong, a performance artist, choreographer, and scholar who’s recently returned to the Bay Area after four years away. Due to their creative and conceptual engagements, Julie’s in-depth conversation with Natalia continues a three-year dialogue about artistic practices, embodied memories, and the lingering proliferations of colonialism and warfare.
Pasadena
Hayden's Ferry Review/Arizona University Press
My memoir prose poem 'Pasadena' is included in the Short Forms issue of spring/summer.
Memory Without Pyrotechnics
diaCRITICS
An interview with the writer Vu Tran, who’d been selected as a 2011 finalist for the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, awarded to foreign-born individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievement during the early stages of their careers.
On Thích Quảng Đức, Bà Đặng Thị Kim, and Self Immolation
diaCRITICS
I comment upon the historical religious practice of self-immolation and the political suicide of Tạ Phong Tần’s mother, Bà Đặng Thị Kim Liêng, before reprinting an article about the circumstances surrounding her July 2012 death to protest her daughter's arrest and imprisonment.
Corner Shore, Progress Report, Grandma, Tra Cang Monastery, and Fear of Ambivalence
Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora / University of Washington Press
Pairing image and text, 'Troubling Borders' showcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. The collection features compelling storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women. The diverse voices featured here have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization.
diaCRITICIZE: Off The Mark—Wahlberg #CrimingWhileWhite
diaCRITICS
Reflects on Wahlberg’s rise to fame as rapper, actor, and media mogul after his anti-Vietnamese hate crimes committed in Boston, in the city’s largest neighborhood of Dorchester, as a teenager. As the US is also simultaneously rocked by protests over police brutality against people of color, Underhill examines the timing of Wahlberg’s bid to wipe his criminal record.
war dreams
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace/Koa Books
Two of my 'war dreams' poems were included in this anthology edited by Maxine Hong Kingston. The book won the 2007 Northern California Book Reviewers Special Award in Publishing the year before Maxine was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2008 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Our veterans writing group continues to meet seasonally in Sebastopol, California.
Maps & Postscript
TrenchArt Monographs: hurry up please its time / Les Figues Press
A new anthology of poetics through collected monographs by Les Figues Press authors. The books in the TrenchArt series are experiments in language, and the aesthetic essays in this anthology investigate the why of those experiments. The essays challenge, too, what an essay looks like, what an essay can do. Manifestos, lists, performative pieces, visual art, critical essays, marginalia, and the entirely unclassifiable—these pieces pull, prod, and play with the concept of “language” from all directions, misdirections, and sometimes no direction at all.
Democratic Kampuchea's Genocide of the Cham
diaCRITICS
Through text and image, I discuss the experiences of genocide and the pursuit of justice and healing for the Cham in Cambodia, an ethnic and religious minority persecuted under the Khmer Rouge during Democratic Kampuchea.
diaCRITICIZE: On Motherland (Re)turns
diaCRITICS
My first editor's letter, about the dilemmas regarding ‘authentic’ belonging as Vietnamese American of Cham-French and Euro-American descent. I also discuss a trip to Việt Nam undertaken with the only Vietnamese American friend I made while living in Oklahoma from 1986 to 1994.
(Im)moveable Feasts—An Interview with Natalia Duong
diaCRITICS
diaCRITIC Julie Thi Underhill met up with Natalia Duong, a performance artist, choreographer, and scholar who’s recently returned to the Bay Area after four years away. Due to their creative and conceptual engagements, Julie’s in-depth conversation with Natalia continues a three-year dialogue about artistic practices, embodied memories, and the lingering proliferations of colonialism and warfare.
Pasadena
Hayden's Ferry Review/Arizona University Press
My memoir prose poem 'Pasadena' is included in the Short Forms issue of spring/summer.
Memory Without Pyrotechnics
diaCRITICS
An interview with the writer Vu Tran, who’d been selected as a 2011 finalist for the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, awarded to foreign-born individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievement during the early stages of their careers.
Appreciation: Tam Tran, Advocate for the Undocumented
New America Media
Shortly after her death, my tribute to Tam Tran, who became one of the nation’s leading advocates for the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (“DREAM Act”). In 2007, Tam testified before Congress and continued to advocate on behalf of undocumented students until her death.
On Thích Quảng Đức, Bà Đặng Thị Kim, and Self Immolation
diaCRITICS
I comment upon the historical religious practice of self-immolation and the political suicide of Tạ Phong Tần’s mother, Bà Đặng Thị Kim Liêng, before reprinting an article about the circumstances surrounding her July 2012 death to protest her daughter's arrest and imprisonment.
Corner Shore, Progress Report, Grandma, Tra Cang Monastery, and Fear of Ambivalence
Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora / University of Washington Press
Pairing image and text, 'Troubling Borders' showcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. The collection features compelling storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women. The diverse voices featured here have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization.
diaCRITICIZE: Off The Mark—Wahlberg #CrimingWhileWhite
diaCRITICS
Reflects on Wahlberg’s rise to fame as rapper, actor, and media mogul after his anti-Vietnamese hate crimes committed in Boston, in the city’s largest neighborhood of Dorchester, as a teenager. As the US is also simultaneously rocked by protests over police brutality against people of color, Underhill examines the timing of Wahlberg’s bid to wipe his criminal record.
war dreams
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace/Koa Books
Two of my 'war dreams' poems were included in this anthology edited by Maxine Hong Kingston. The book won the 2007 Northern California Book Reviewers Special Award in Publishing the year before Maxine was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2008 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Our veterans writing group continues to meet seasonally in Sebastopol, California.
Maps & Postscript
TrenchArt Monographs: hurry up please its time / Les Figues Press
A new anthology of poetics through collected monographs by Les Figues Press authors. The books in the TrenchArt series are experiments in language, and the aesthetic essays in this anthology investigate the why of those experiments. The essays challenge, too, what an essay looks like, what an essay can do. Manifestos, lists, performative pieces, visual art, critical essays, marginalia, and the entirely unclassifiable—these pieces pull, prod, and play with the concept of “language” from all directions, misdirections, and sometimes no direction at all.
Democratic Kampuchea's Genocide of the Cham
diaCRITICS
Through text and image, I discuss the experiences of genocide and the pursuit of justice and healing for the Cham in Cambodia, an ethnic and religious minority persecuted under the Khmer Rouge during Democratic Kampuchea.
diaCRITICIZE: On Motherland (Re)turns
diaCRITICS
My first editor's letter, about the dilemmas regarding ‘authentic’ belonging as Vietnamese American of Cham-French and Euro-American descent. I also discuss a trip to Việt Nam undertaken with the only Vietnamese American friend I made while living in Oklahoma from 1986 to 1994.
(Im)moveable Feasts—An Interview with Natalia Duong
diaCRITICS
diaCRITIC Julie Thi Underhill met up with Natalia Duong, a performance artist, choreographer, and scholar who’s recently returned to the Bay Area after four years away. Due to their creative and conceptual engagements, Julie’s in-depth conversation with Natalia continues a three-year dialogue about artistic practices, embodied memories, and the lingering proliferations of colonialism and warfare.
Pasadena
Hayden's Ferry Review/Arizona University Press
My memoir prose poem 'Pasadena' is included in the Short Forms issue of spring/summer.
Memory Without Pyrotechnics
diaCRITICS
An interview with the writer Vu Tran, who’d been selected as a 2011 finalist for the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, awarded to foreign-born individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievement during the early stages of their careers.
Appreciation: Tam Tran, Advocate for the Undocumented
New America Media
Shortly after her death, my tribute to Tam Tran, who became one of the nation’s leading advocates for the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (“DREAM Act”). In 2007, Tam testified before Congress and continued to advocate on behalf of undocumented students until her death.
The Gift Horse of War
Completely Mixed Up: Mixed Heritage Asian North American Writing and Art / Rabbit Fool Press
Edited by Brandy Lien Worrall-Soriano, 'Completely Mixed Up' is an anthology fifteen years in the making. The project started in 2000, with a trilogy of 700 handmade chapbooks. Over the years, the project has been presented all throughout North America, most notably in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, and New York. Seventy contributors offer over 150 works of visual art, writing, photography, and performance in this groundbreaking anthology, displaying creative expressions of what it means to be mixed race/mixed heritage Asian American and Canadian.
On Thích Quảng Đức, Bà Đặng Thị Kim, and Self Immolation
diaCRITICS
I comment upon the historical religious practice of self-immolation and the political suicide of Tạ Phong Tần’s mother, Bà Đặng Thị Kim Liêng, before reprinting an article about the circumstances surrounding her July 2012 death to protest her daughter's arrest and imprisonment.
Corner Shore, Progress Report, Grandma, Tra Cang Monastery, and Fear of Ambivalence
Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora / University of Washington Press
Pairing image and text, 'Troubling Borders' showcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. The collection features compelling storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women. The diverse voices featured here have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization.
diaCRITICIZE: Off The Mark—Wahlberg #CrimingWhileWhite
diaCRITICS
Reflects on Wahlberg’s rise to fame as rapper, actor, and media mogul after his anti-Vietnamese hate crimes committed in Boston, in the city’s largest neighborhood of Dorchester, as a teenager. As the US is also simultaneously rocked by protests over police brutality against people of color, Underhill examines the timing of Wahlberg’s bid to wipe his criminal record.
war dreams
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace/Koa Books
Two of my 'war dreams' poems were included in this anthology edited by Maxine Hong Kingston. The book won the 2007 Northern California Book Reviewers Special Award in Publishing the year before Maxine was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2008 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Our veterans writing group continues to meet seasonally in Sebastopol, California.
Maps & Postscript
TrenchArt Monographs: hurry up please its time / Les Figues Press
A new anthology of poetics through collected monographs by Les Figues Press authors. The books in the TrenchArt series are experiments in language, and the aesthetic essays in this anthology investigate the why of those experiments. The essays challenge, too, what an essay looks like, what an essay can do. Manifestos, lists, performative pieces, visual art, critical essays, marginalia, and the entirely unclassifiable—these pieces pull, prod, and play with the concept of “language” from all directions, misdirections, and sometimes no direction at all.
Democratic Kampuchea's Genocide of the Cham
diaCRITICS
Through text and image, I discuss the experiences of genocide and the pursuit of justice and healing for the Cham in Cambodia, an ethnic and religious minority persecuted under the Khmer Rouge during Democratic Kampuchea.
diaCRITICIZE: On Motherland (Re)turns
diaCRITICS
My first editor's letter, about the dilemmas regarding ‘authentic’ belonging as Vietnamese American of Cham-French and Euro-American descent. I also discuss a trip to Việt Nam undertaken with the only Vietnamese American friend I made while living in Oklahoma from 1986 to 1994.
(Im)moveable Feasts—An Interview with Natalia Duong
diaCRITICS
diaCRITIC Julie Thi Underhill met up with Natalia Duong, a performance artist, choreographer, and scholar who’s recently returned to the Bay Area after four years away. Due to their creative and conceptual engagements, Julie’s in-depth conversation with Natalia continues a three-year dialogue about artistic practices, embodied memories, and the lingering proliferations of colonialism and warfare.
Pasadena
Hayden's Ferry Review/Arizona University Press
My memoir prose poem 'Pasadena' is included in the Short Forms issue of spring/summer.
Memory Without Pyrotechnics
diaCRITICS
An interview with the writer Vu Tran, who’d been selected as a 2011 finalist for the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, awarded to foreign-born individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievement during the early stages of their careers.
Appreciation: Tam Tran, Advocate for the Undocumented
New America Media
Shortly after her death, my tribute to Tam Tran, who became one of the nation’s leading advocates for the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (“DREAM Act”). In 2007, Tam testified before Congress and continued to advocate on behalf of undocumented students until her death.
The Gift Horse of War
Completely Mixed Up: Mixed Heritage Asian North American Writing and Art / Rabbit Fool Press
Edited by Brandy Lien Worrall-Soriano, 'Completely Mixed Up' is an anthology fifteen years in the making. The project started in 2000, with a trilogy of 700 handmade chapbooks. Over the years, the project has been presented all throughout North America, most notably in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, and New York. Seventy contributors offer over 150 works of visual art, writing, photography, and performance in this groundbreaking anthology, displaying creative expressions of what it means to be mixed race/mixed heritage Asian American and Canadian.
Ghosts
Embodying Asian/American Sexualities, Lexington Books
My memoir essay 'Ghosts' is the final chapter of this anthology, a collection that forges a new intellectual frontier for critical race and queer studies.
On Thích Quảng Đức, Bà Đặng Thị Kim, and Self Immolation
diaCRITICS
I comment upon the historical religious practice of self-immolation and the political suicide of Tạ Phong Tần’s mother, Bà Đặng Thị Kim Liêng, before reprinting an article about the circumstances surrounding her July 2012 death to protest her daughter's arrest and imprisonment.
Corner Shore, Progress Report, Grandma, Tra Cang Monastery, and Fear of Ambivalence
Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora / University of Washington Press
Pairing image and text, 'Troubling Borders' showcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. The collection features compelling storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women. The diverse voices featured here have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization.
diaCRITICIZE: Off The Mark—Wahlberg #CrimingWhileWhite
diaCRITICS
Reflects on Wahlberg’s rise to fame as rapper, actor, and media mogul after his anti-Vietnamese hate crimes committed in Boston, in the city’s largest neighborhood of Dorchester, as a teenager. As the US is also simultaneously rocked by protests over police brutality against people of color, Underhill examines the timing of Wahlberg’s bid to wipe his criminal record.
war dreams
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace/Koa Books
Two of my 'war dreams' poems were included in this anthology edited by Maxine Hong Kingston. The book won the 2007 Northern California Book Reviewers Special Award in Publishing the year before Maxine was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2008 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Our veterans writing group continues to meet seasonally in Sebastopol, California.
Maps & Postscript
TrenchArt Monographs: hurry up please its time / Les Figues Press
A new anthology of poetics through collected monographs by Les Figues Press authors. The books in the TrenchArt series are experiments in language, and the aesthetic essays in this anthology investigate the why of those experiments. The essays challenge, too, what an essay looks like, what an essay can do. Manifestos, lists, performative pieces, visual art, critical essays, marginalia, and the entirely unclassifiable—these pieces pull, prod, and play with the concept of “language” from all directions, misdirections, and sometimes no direction at all.
Democratic Kampuchea's Genocide of the Cham
diaCRITICS
Through text and image, I discuss the experiences of genocide and the pursuit of justice and healing for the Cham in Cambodia, an ethnic and religious minority persecuted under the Khmer Rouge during Democratic Kampuchea.
diaCRITICIZE: On Motherland (Re)turns
diaCRITICS
My first editor's letter, about the dilemmas regarding ‘authentic’ belonging as Vietnamese American of Cham-French and Euro-American descent. I also discuss a trip to Việt Nam undertaken with the only Vietnamese American friend I made while living in Oklahoma from 1986 to 1994.
(Im)moveable Feasts—An Interview with Natalia Duong
diaCRITICS
diaCRITIC Julie Thi Underhill met up with Natalia Duong, a performance artist, choreographer, and scholar who’s recently returned to the Bay Area after four years away. Due to their creative and conceptual engagements, Julie’s in-depth conversation with Natalia continues a three-year dialogue about artistic practices, embodied memories, and the lingering proliferations of colonialism and warfare.
Pasadena
Hayden's Ferry Review/Arizona University Press
My memoir prose poem 'Pasadena' is included in the Short Forms issue of spring/summer.
Memory Without Pyrotechnics
diaCRITICS
An interview with the writer Vu Tran, who’d been selected as a 2011 finalist for the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, awarded to foreign-born individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievement during the early stages of their careers.
Appreciation: Tam Tran, Advocate for the Undocumented
New America Media
Shortly after her death, my tribute to Tam Tran, who became one of the nation’s leading advocates for the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (“DREAM Act”). In 2007, Tam testified before Congress and continued to advocate on behalf of undocumented students until her death.
The Gift Horse of War
Completely Mixed Up: Mixed Heritage Asian North American Writing and Art / Rabbit Fool Press
Edited by Brandy Lien Worrall-Soriano, 'Completely Mixed Up' is an anthology fifteen years in the making. The project started in 2000, with a trilogy of 700 handmade chapbooks. Over the years, the project has been presented all throughout North America, most notably in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, and New York. Seventy contributors offer over 150 works of visual art, writing, photography, and performance in this groundbreaking anthology, displaying creative expressions of what it means to be mixed race/mixed heritage Asian American and Canadian.
Ghosts
Embodying Asian/American Sexualities, Lexington Books
My memoir essay 'Ghosts' is the final chapter of this anthology, a collection that forges a new intellectual frontier for critical race and queer studies.
Slipknot
in the plain turn of the body make a sentence/Les Figues Press
Through pen-and-ink illustration of two crows interlocked in midflight, I created the cover art, 'Slipknot,' for Sissy Boyd's collection of two plays.
On Thích Quảng Đức, Bà Đặng Thị Kim, and Self Immolation
diaCRITICS
I comment upon the historical religious practice of self-immolation and the political suicide of Tạ Phong Tần’s mother, Bà Đặng Thị Kim Liêng, before reprinting an article about the circumstances surrounding her July 2012 death to protest her daughter's arrest and imprisonment.
Corner Shore, Progress Report, Grandma, Tra Cang Monastery, and Fear of Ambivalence
Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora / University of Washington Press
Pairing image and text, 'Troubling Borders' showcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. The collection features compelling storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women. The diverse voices featured here have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization.
diaCRITICIZE: Off The Mark—Wahlberg #CrimingWhileWhite
diaCRITICS
Reflects on Wahlberg’s rise to fame as rapper, actor, and media mogul after his anti-Vietnamese hate crimes committed in Boston, in the city’s largest neighborhood of Dorchester, as a teenager. As the US is also simultaneously rocked by protests over police brutality against people of color, Underhill examines the timing of Wahlberg’s bid to wipe his criminal record.
war dreams
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace/Koa Books
Two of my 'war dreams' poems were included in this anthology edited by Maxine Hong Kingston. The book won the 2007 Northern California Book Reviewers Special Award in Publishing the year before Maxine was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2008 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Our veterans writing group continues to meet seasonally in Sebastopol, California.
Maps & Postscript
TrenchArt Monographs: hurry up please its time / Les Figues Press
A new anthology of poetics through collected monographs by Les Figues Press authors. The books in the TrenchArt series are experiments in language, and the aesthetic essays in this anthology investigate the why of those experiments. The essays challenge, too, what an essay looks like, what an essay can do. Manifestos, lists, performative pieces, visual art, critical essays, marginalia, and the entirely unclassifiable—these pieces pull, prod, and play with the concept of “language” from all directions, misdirections, and sometimes no direction at all.
Democratic Kampuchea's Genocide of the Cham
diaCRITICS
Through text and image, I discuss the experiences of genocide and the pursuit of justice and healing for the Cham in Cambodia, an ethnic and religious minority persecuted under the Khmer Rouge during Democratic Kampuchea.
diaCRITICIZE: On Motherland (Re)turns
diaCRITICS
My first editor's letter, about the dilemmas regarding ‘authentic’ belonging as Vietnamese American of Cham-French and Euro-American descent. I also discuss a trip to Việt Nam undertaken with the only Vietnamese American friend I made while living in Oklahoma from 1986 to 1994.
(Im)moveable Feasts—An Interview with Natalia Duong
diaCRITICS
diaCRITIC Julie Thi Underhill met up with Natalia Duong, a performance artist, choreographer, and scholar who’s recently returned to the Bay Area after four years away. Due to their creative and conceptual engagements, Julie’s in-depth conversation with Natalia continues a three-year dialogue about artistic practices, embodied memories, and the lingering proliferations of colonialism and warfare.
Pasadena
Hayden's Ferry Review/Arizona University Press
My memoir prose poem 'Pasadena' is included in the Short Forms issue of spring/summer.
Memory Without Pyrotechnics
diaCRITICS
An interview with the writer Vu Tran, who’d been selected as a 2011 finalist for the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, awarded to foreign-born individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievement during the early stages of their careers.
Appreciation: Tam Tran, Advocate for the Undocumented
New America Media
Shortly after her death, my tribute to Tam Tran, who became one of the nation’s leading advocates for the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (“DREAM Act”). In 2007, Tam testified before Congress and continued to advocate on behalf of undocumented students until her death.
The Gift Horse of War
Completely Mixed Up: Mixed Heritage Asian North American Writing and Art / Rabbit Fool Press
Edited by Brandy Lien Worrall-Soriano, 'Completely Mixed Up' is an anthology fifteen years in the making. The project started in 2000, with a trilogy of 700 handmade chapbooks. Over the years, the project has been presented all throughout North America, most notably in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, and New York. Seventy contributors offer over 150 works of visual art, writing, photography, and performance in this groundbreaking anthology, displaying creative expressions of what it means to be mixed race/mixed heritage Asian American and Canadian.
Ghosts
Embodying Asian/American Sexualities, Lexington Books
My memoir essay 'Ghosts' is the final chapter of this anthology, a collection that forges a new intellectual frontier for critical race and queer studies.
Slipknot
in the plain turn of the body make a sentence/Les Figues Press
Through pen-and-ink illustration of two crows interlocked in midflight, I created the cover art, 'Slipknot,' for Sissy Boyd's collection of two plays.
Call and Response: A Review of Bao Phi’s Sông I Sing
diaCRITICS
A review of Bao Phi’s debut poetry collection 'Sông I Sing,' released in October by Coffee House Press.
On Thích Quảng Đức, Bà Đặng Thị Kim, and Self Immolation
diaCRITICS
I comment upon the historical religious practice of self-immolation and the political suicide of Tạ Phong Tần’s mother, Bà Đặng Thị Kim Liêng, before reprinting an article about the circumstances surrounding her July 2012 death to protest her daughter's arrest and imprisonment.
Corner Shore, Progress Report, Grandma, Tra Cang Monastery, and Fear of Ambivalence
Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora / University of Washington Press
Pairing image and text, 'Troubling Borders' showcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. The collection features compelling storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women. The diverse voices featured here have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization.
diaCRITICIZE: Off The Mark—Wahlberg #CrimingWhileWhite
diaCRITICS
Reflects on Wahlberg’s rise to fame as rapper, actor, and media mogul after his anti-Vietnamese hate crimes committed in Boston, in the city’s largest neighborhood of Dorchester, as a teenager. As the US is also simultaneously rocked by protests over police brutality against people of color, Underhill examines the timing of Wahlberg’s bid to wipe his criminal record.
war dreams
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace/Koa Books
Two of my 'war dreams' poems were included in this anthology edited by Maxine Hong Kingston. The book won the 2007 Northern California Book Reviewers Special Award in Publishing the year before Maxine was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2008 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Our veterans writing group continues to meet seasonally in Sebastopol, California.
Maps & Postscript
TrenchArt Monographs: hurry up please its time / Les Figues Press
A new anthology of poetics through collected monographs by Les Figues Press authors. The books in the TrenchArt series are experiments in language, and the aesthetic essays in this anthology investigate the why of those experiments. The essays challenge, too, what an essay looks like, what an essay can do. Manifestos, lists, performative pieces, visual art, critical essays, marginalia, and the entirely unclassifiable—these pieces pull, prod, and play with the concept of “language” from all directions, misdirections, and sometimes no direction at all.
Democratic Kampuchea's Genocide of the Cham
diaCRITICS
Through text and image, I discuss the experiences of genocide and the pursuit of justice and healing for the Cham in Cambodia, an ethnic and religious minority persecuted under the Khmer Rouge during Democratic Kampuchea.
diaCRITICIZE: On Motherland (Re)turns
diaCRITICS
My first editor's letter, about the dilemmas regarding ‘authentic’ belonging as Vietnamese American of Cham-French and Euro-American descent. I also discuss a trip to Việt Nam undertaken with the only Vietnamese American friend I made while living in Oklahoma from 1986 to 1994.
(Im)moveable Feasts—An Interview with Natalia Duong
diaCRITICS
diaCRITIC Julie Thi Underhill met up with Natalia Duong, a performance artist, choreographer, and scholar who’s recently returned to the Bay Area after four years away. Due to their creative and conceptual engagements, Julie’s in-depth conversation with Natalia continues a three-year dialogue about artistic practices, embodied memories, and the lingering proliferations of colonialism and warfare.
Pasadena
Hayden's Ferry Review/Arizona University Press
My memoir prose poem 'Pasadena' is included in the Short Forms issue of spring/summer.
Memory Without Pyrotechnics
diaCRITICS
An interview with the writer Vu Tran, who’d been selected as a 2011 finalist for the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, awarded to foreign-born individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievement during the early stages of their careers.
Appreciation: Tam Tran, Advocate for the Undocumented
New America Media
Shortly after her death, my tribute to Tam Tran, who became one of the nation’s leading advocates for the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (“DREAM Act”). In 2007, Tam testified before Congress and continued to advocate on behalf of undocumented students until her death.
The Gift Horse of War
Completely Mixed Up: Mixed Heritage Asian North American Writing and Art / Rabbit Fool Press
Edited by Brandy Lien Worrall-Soriano, 'Completely Mixed Up' is an anthology fifteen years in the making. The project started in 2000, with a trilogy of 700 handmade chapbooks. Over the years, the project has been presented all throughout North America, most notably in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, and New York. Seventy contributors offer over 150 works of visual art, writing, photography, and performance in this groundbreaking anthology, displaying creative expressions of what it means to be mixed race/mixed heritage Asian American and Canadian.
Ghosts
Embodying Asian/American Sexualities, Lexington Books
My memoir essay 'Ghosts' is the final chapter of this anthology, a collection that forges a new intellectual frontier for critical race and queer studies.
Slipknot
in the plain turn of the body make a sentence/Les Figues Press
Through pen-and-ink illustration of two crows interlocked in midflight, I created the cover art, 'Slipknot,' for Sissy Boyd's collection of two plays.
Call and Response: A Review of Bao Phi’s Sông I Sing
diaCRITICS
A review of Bao Phi’s debut poetry collection 'Sông I Sing,' released in October by Coffee House Press.
Coming Out, Coming Home -- Thao P. Nguyen's 'Fortunate Daughter'
diaCRITICS
A review of Thao P. Nguyen's "one dyke" tragicomedy show, performed at the Impact Theater in Berkeley, set within sociopolitical and cultural context of how queerness circulates as tacit knowledge within the Vietnamese-American community due to values which de-emphasize individualism and emphasize a desire to "save face," at the same time the pro-LBGTQ rights movement encourages visibility.
On Thích Quảng Đức, Bà Đặng Thị Kim, and Self Immolation
diaCRITICS
I comment upon the historical religious practice of self-immolation and the political suicide of Tạ Phong Tần’s mother, Bà Đặng Thị Kim Liêng, before reprinting an article about the circumstances surrounding her July 2012 death to protest her daughter's arrest and imprisonment.
Corner Shore, Progress Report, Grandma, Tra Cang Monastery, and Fear of Ambivalence
Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora / University of Washington Press
Pairing image and text, 'Troubling Borders' showcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. The collection features compelling storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women. The diverse voices featured here have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization.
diaCRITICIZE: Off The Mark—Wahlberg #CrimingWhileWhite
diaCRITICS
Reflects on Wahlberg’s rise to fame as rapper, actor, and media mogul after his anti-Vietnamese hate crimes committed in Boston, in the city’s largest neighborhood of Dorchester, as a teenager. As the US is also simultaneously rocked by protests over police brutality against people of color, Underhill examines the timing of Wahlberg’s bid to wipe his criminal record.
war dreams
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace/Koa Books
Two of my 'war dreams' poems were included in this anthology edited by Maxine Hong Kingston. The book won the 2007 Northern California Book Reviewers Special Award in Publishing the year before Maxine was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2008 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Our veterans writing group continues to meet seasonally in Sebastopol, California.
Maps & Postscript
TrenchArt Monographs: hurry up please its time / Les Figues Press
A new anthology of poetics through collected monographs by Les Figues Press authors. The books in the TrenchArt series are experiments in language, and the aesthetic essays in this anthology investigate the why of those experiments. The essays challenge, too, what an essay looks like, what an essay can do. Manifestos, lists, performative pieces, visual art, critical essays, marginalia, and the entirely unclassifiable—these pieces pull, prod, and play with the concept of “language” from all directions, misdirections, and sometimes no direction at all.
Democratic Kampuchea's Genocide of the Cham
diaCRITICS
Through text and image, I discuss the experiences of genocide and the pursuit of justice and healing for the Cham in Cambodia, an ethnic and religious minority persecuted under the Khmer Rouge during Democratic Kampuchea.
diaCRITICIZE: On Motherland (Re)turns
diaCRITICS
My first editor's letter, about the dilemmas regarding ‘authentic’ belonging as Vietnamese American of Cham-French and Euro-American descent. I also discuss a trip to Việt Nam undertaken with the only Vietnamese American friend I made while living in Oklahoma from 1986 to 1994.
(Im)moveable Feasts—An Interview with Natalia Duong
diaCRITICS
diaCRITIC Julie Thi Underhill met up with Natalia Duong, a performance artist, choreographer, and scholar who’s recently returned to the Bay Area after four years away. Due to their creative and conceptual engagements, Julie’s in-depth conversation with Natalia continues a three-year dialogue about artistic practices, embodied memories, and the lingering proliferations of colonialism and warfare.
Pasadena
Hayden's Ferry Review/Arizona University Press
My memoir prose poem 'Pasadena' is included in the Short Forms issue of spring/summer.
Memory Without Pyrotechnics
diaCRITICS
An interview with the writer Vu Tran, who’d been selected as a 2011 finalist for the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, awarded to foreign-born individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievement during the early stages of their careers.
Appreciation: Tam Tran, Advocate for the Undocumented
New America Media
Shortly after her death, my tribute to Tam Tran, who became one of the nation’s leading advocates for the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (“DREAM Act”). In 2007, Tam testified before Congress and continued to advocate on behalf of undocumented students until her death.
The Gift Horse of War
Completely Mixed Up: Mixed Heritage Asian North American Writing and Art / Rabbit Fool Press
Edited by Brandy Lien Worrall-Soriano, 'Completely Mixed Up' is an anthology fifteen years in the making. The project started in 2000, with a trilogy of 700 handmade chapbooks. Over the years, the project has been presented all throughout North America, most notably in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, and New York. Seventy contributors offer over 150 works of visual art, writing, photography, and performance in this groundbreaking anthology, displaying creative expressions of what it means to be mixed race/mixed heritage Asian American and Canadian.
Ghosts
Embodying Asian/American Sexualities, Lexington Books
My memoir essay 'Ghosts' is the final chapter of this anthology, a collection that forges a new intellectual frontier for critical race and queer studies.
Slipknot
in the plain turn of the body make a sentence/Les Figues Press
Through pen-and-ink illustration of two crows interlocked in midflight, I created the cover art, 'Slipknot,' for Sissy Boyd's collection of two plays.
Call and Response: A Review of Bao Phi’s Sông I Sing
diaCRITICS
A review of Bao Phi’s debut poetry collection 'Sông I Sing,' released in October by Coffee House Press.
Coming Out, Coming Home -- Thao P. Nguyen's 'Fortunate Daughter'
diaCRITICS
A review of Thao P. Nguyen's "one dyke" tragicomedy show, performed at the Impact Theater in Berkeley, set within sociopolitical and cultural context of how queerness circulates as tacit knowledge within the Vietnamese-American community due to values which de-emphasize individualism and emphasize a desire to "save face," at the same time the pro-LBGTQ rights movement encourages visibility.
Inheriting the War
WW Norton
Three poems included in this expansive collection. In this anthology, descendants of Vietnam veterans and refugees confront the aftermath of war and, in verse and prose, deliver another kind of war story.
On Thích Quảng Đức, Bà Đặng Thị Kim, and Self Immolation
diaCRITICS
I comment upon the historical religious practice of self-immolation and the political suicide of Tạ Phong Tần’s mother, Bà Đặng Thị Kim Liêng, before reprinting an article about the circumstances surrounding her July 2012 death to protest her daughter's arrest and imprisonment.
Corner Shore, Progress Report, Grandma, Tra Cang Monastery, and Fear of Ambivalence
Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora / University of Washington Press
Pairing image and text, 'Troubling Borders' showcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. The collection features compelling storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women. The diverse voices featured here have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization.
diaCRITICIZE: Off The Mark—Wahlberg #CrimingWhileWhite
diaCRITICS
Reflects on Wahlberg’s rise to fame as rapper, actor, and media mogul after his anti-Vietnamese hate crimes committed in Boston, in the city’s largest neighborhood of Dorchester, as a teenager. As the US is also simultaneously rocked by protests over police brutality against people of color, Underhill examines the timing of Wahlberg’s bid to wipe his criminal record.
war dreams
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace/Koa Books
Two of my 'war dreams' poems were included in this anthology edited by Maxine Hong Kingston. The book won the 2007 Northern California Book Reviewers Special Award in Publishing the year before Maxine was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2008 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Our veterans writing group continues to meet seasonally in Sebastopol, California.
Maps & Postscript
TrenchArt Monographs: hurry up please its time / Les Figues Press
A new anthology of poetics through collected monographs by Les Figues Press authors. The books in the TrenchArt series are experiments in language, and the aesthetic essays in this anthology investigate the why of those experiments. The essays challenge, too, what an essay looks like, what an essay can do. Manifestos, lists, performative pieces, visual art, critical essays, marginalia, and the entirely unclassifiable—these pieces pull, prod, and play with the concept of “language” from all directions, misdirections, and sometimes no direction at all.
Democratic Kampuchea's Genocide of the Cham
diaCRITICS
Through text and image, I discuss the experiences of genocide and the pursuit of justice and healing for the Cham in Cambodia, an ethnic and religious minority persecuted under the Khmer Rouge during Democratic Kampuchea.
diaCRITICIZE: On Motherland (Re)turns
diaCRITICS
My first editor's letter, about the dilemmas regarding ‘authentic’ belonging as Vietnamese American of Cham-French and Euro-American descent. I also discuss a trip to Việt Nam undertaken with the only Vietnamese American friend I made while living in Oklahoma from 1986 to 1994.
(Im)moveable Feasts—An Interview with Natalia Duong
diaCRITICS
diaCRITIC Julie Thi Underhill met up with Natalia Duong, a performance artist, choreographer, and scholar who’s recently returned to the Bay Area after four years away. Due to their creative and conceptual engagements, Julie’s in-depth conversation with Natalia continues a three-year dialogue about artistic practices, embodied memories, and the lingering proliferations of colonialism and warfare.
Pasadena
Hayden's Ferry Review/Arizona University Press
My memoir prose poem 'Pasadena' is included in the Short Forms issue of spring/summer.
Memory Without Pyrotechnics
diaCRITICS
An interview with the writer Vu Tran, who’d been selected as a 2011 finalist for the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, awarded to foreign-born individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievement during the early stages of their careers.
Appreciation: Tam Tran, Advocate for the Undocumented
New America Media
Shortly after her death, my tribute to Tam Tran, who became one of the nation’s leading advocates for the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (“DREAM Act”). In 2007, Tam testified before Congress and continued to advocate on behalf of undocumented students until her death.
The Gift Horse of War
Completely Mixed Up: Mixed Heritage Asian North American Writing and Art / Rabbit Fool Press
Edited by Brandy Lien Worrall-Soriano, 'Completely Mixed Up' is an anthology fifteen years in the making. The project started in 2000, with a trilogy of 700 handmade chapbooks. Over the years, the project has been presented all throughout North America, most notably in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, and New York. Seventy contributors offer over 150 works of visual art, writing, photography, and performance in this groundbreaking anthology, displaying creative expressions of what it means to be mixed race/mixed heritage Asian American and Canadian.
Ghosts
Embodying Asian/American Sexualities, Lexington Books
My memoir essay 'Ghosts' is the final chapter of this anthology, a collection that forges a new intellectual frontier for critical race and queer studies.
Slipknot
in the plain turn of the body make a sentence/Les Figues Press
Through pen-and-ink illustration of two crows interlocked in midflight, I created the cover art, 'Slipknot,' for Sissy Boyd's collection of two plays.
Call and Response: A Review of Bao Phi’s Sông I Sing
diaCRITICS
A review of Bao Phi’s debut poetry collection 'Sông I Sing,' released in October by Coffee House Press.
Coming Out, Coming Home -- Thao P. Nguyen's 'Fortunate Daughter'
diaCRITICS
A review of Thao P. Nguyen's "one dyke" tragicomedy show, performed at the Impact Theater in Berkeley, set within sociopolitical and cultural context of how queerness circulates as tacit knowledge within the Vietnamese-American community due to values which de-emphasize individualism and emphasize a desire to "save face," at the same time the pro-LBGTQ rights movement encourages visibility.
Inheriting the War
WW Norton
Three poems included in this expansive collection. In this anthology, descendants of Vietnam veterans and refugees confront the aftermath of war and, in verse and prose, deliver another kind of war story.
Luminous Elegies
Positions: Asia Critique/Duke University Press
This special issue on Southeast Asians in the Diaspora (Summer 2012) includes "Luminous Elegies," a portfolio of my Cham family portraiture, prefaced by my artist's statement challenging the conventions of "salvage ethnography," amidst threats to the continuation of the Cham community in Viet Nam. My photograph "Aunts and An Uncle" is also on the journal's cover.
On Thích Quảng Đức, Bà Đặng Thị Kim, and Self Immolation
diaCRITICS
I comment upon the historical religious practice of self-immolation and the political suicide of Tạ Phong Tần’s mother, Bà Đặng Thị Kim Liêng, before reprinting an article about the circumstances surrounding her July 2012 death to protest her daughter's arrest and imprisonment.
Corner Shore, Progress Report, Grandma, Tra Cang Monastery, and Fear of Ambivalence
Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora / University of Washington Press
Pairing image and text, 'Troubling Borders' showcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. The collection features compelling storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women. The diverse voices featured here have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization.
diaCRITICIZE: Off The Mark—Wahlberg #CrimingWhileWhite
diaCRITICS
Reflects on Wahlberg’s rise to fame as rapper, actor, and media mogul after his anti-Vietnamese hate crimes committed in Boston, in the city’s largest neighborhood of Dorchester, as a teenager. As the US is also simultaneously rocked by protests over police brutality against people of color, Underhill examines the timing of Wahlberg’s bid to wipe his criminal record.
war dreams
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace/Koa Books
Two of my 'war dreams' poems were included in this anthology edited by Maxine Hong Kingston. The book won the 2007 Northern California Book Reviewers Special Award in Publishing the year before Maxine was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2008 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Our veterans writing group continues to meet seasonally in Sebastopol, California.
Maps & Postscript
TrenchArt Monographs: hurry up please its time / Les Figues Press
A new anthology of poetics through collected monographs by Les Figues Press authors. The books in the TrenchArt series are experiments in language, and the aesthetic essays in this anthology investigate the why of those experiments. The essays challenge, too, what an essay looks like, what an essay can do. Manifestos, lists, performative pieces, visual art, critical essays, marginalia, and the entirely unclassifiable—these pieces pull, prod, and play with the concept of “language” from all directions, misdirections, and sometimes no direction at all.
Democratic Kampuchea's Genocide of the Cham
diaCRITICS
Through text and image, I discuss the experiences of genocide and the pursuit of justice and healing for the Cham in Cambodia, an ethnic and religious minority persecuted under the Khmer Rouge during Democratic Kampuchea.
diaCRITICIZE: On Motherland (Re)turns
diaCRITICS
My first editor's letter, about the dilemmas regarding ‘authentic’ belonging as Vietnamese American of Cham-French and Euro-American descent. I also discuss a trip to Việt Nam undertaken with the only Vietnamese American friend I made while living in Oklahoma from 1986 to 1994.
(Im)moveable Feasts—An Interview with Natalia Duong
diaCRITICS
diaCRITIC Julie Thi Underhill met up with Natalia Duong, a performance artist, choreographer, and scholar who’s recently returned to the Bay Area after four years away. Due to their creative and conceptual engagements, Julie’s in-depth conversation with Natalia continues a three-year dialogue about artistic practices, embodied memories, and the lingering proliferations of colonialism and warfare.
Pasadena
Hayden's Ferry Review/Arizona University Press
My memoir prose poem 'Pasadena' is included in the Short Forms issue of spring/summer.
Memory Without Pyrotechnics
diaCRITICS
An interview with the writer Vu Tran, who’d been selected as a 2011 finalist for the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, awarded to foreign-born individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievement during the early stages of their careers.
Appreciation: Tam Tran, Advocate for the Undocumented
New America Media
Shortly after her death, my tribute to Tam Tran, who became one of the nation’s leading advocates for the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (“DREAM Act”). In 2007, Tam testified before Congress and continued to advocate on behalf of undocumented students until her death.
The Gift Horse of War
Completely Mixed Up: Mixed Heritage Asian North American Writing and Art / Rabbit Fool Press
Edited by Brandy Lien Worrall-Soriano, 'Completely Mixed Up' is an anthology fifteen years in the making. The project started in 2000, with a trilogy of 700 handmade chapbooks. Over the years, the project has been presented all throughout North America, most notably in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, and New York. Seventy contributors offer over 150 works of visual art, writing, photography, and performance in this groundbreaking anthology, displaying creative expressions of what it means to be mixed race/mixed heritage Asian American and Canadian.
Ghosts
Embodying Asian/American Sexualities, Lexington Books
My memoir essay 'Ghosts' is the final chapter of this anthology, a collection that forges a new intellectual frontier for critical race and queer studies.
Slipknot
in the plain turn of the body make a sentence/Les Figues Press
Through pen-and-ink illustration of two crows interlocked in midflight, I created the cover art, 'Slipknot,' for Sissy Boyd's collection of two plays.
Call and Response: A Review of Bao Phi’s Sông I Sing
diaCRITICS
A review of Bao Phi’s debut poetry collection 'Sông I Sing,' released in October by Coffee House Press.
Coming Out, Coming Home -- Thao P. Nguyen's 'Fortunate Daughter'
diaCRITICS
A review of Thao P. Nguyen's "one dyke" tragicomedy show, performed at the Impact Theater in Berkeley, set within sociopolitical and cultural context of how queerness circulates as tacit knowledge within the Vietnamese-American community due to values which de-emphasize individualism and emphasize a desire to "save face," at the same time the pro-LBGTQ rights movement encourages visibility.
Inheriting the War
WW Norton
Three poems included in this expansive collection. In this anthology, descendants of Vietnam veterans and refugees confront the aftermath of war and, in verse and prose, deliver another kind of war story.
Luminous Elegies
Positions: Asia Critique/Duke University Press
This special issue on Southeast Asians in the Diaspora (Summer 2012) includes "Luminous Elegies," a portfolio of my Cham family portraiture, prefaced by my artist's statement challenging the conventions of "salvage ethnography," amidst threats to the continuation of the Cham community in Viet Nam. My photograph "Aunts and An Uncle" is also on the journal's cover.
A River Changes Course
Visual Anthropology
Julie Thi Underhill reviews 'A River Changes Course,' a powerful documentary film by Kalyanee Mam about the human impact of manmade environmental catastrophes in Cambodia. Mam's film explores the damage rapid development has wrought in her native Cambodia. The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2013 and won the Grand Jury Prize for World Documentary. Julie cogently examines the themes of the film and addresses their relevance for anthropologists.
On Thích Quảng Đức, Bà Đặng Thị Kim, and Self Immolation
diaCRITICS
I comment upon the historical religious practice of self-immolation and the political suicide of Tạ Phong Tần’s mother, Bà Đặng Thị Kim Liêng, before reprinting an article about the circumstances surrounding her July 2012 death to protest her daughter's arrest and imprisonment.
Corner Shore, Progress Report, Grandma, Tra Cang Monastery, and Fear of Ambivalence
Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora / University of Washington Press
Pairing image and text, 'Troubling Borders' showcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. The collection features compelling storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women. The diverse voices featured here have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization.
diaCRITICIZE: Off The Mark—Wahlberg #CrimingWhileWhite
diaCRITICS
Reflects on Wahlberg’s rise to fame as rapper, actor, and media mogul after his anti-Vietnamese hate crimes committed in Boston, in the city’s largest neighborhood of Dorchester, as a teenager. As the US is also simultaneously rocked by protests over police brutality against people of color, Underhill examines the timing of Wahlberg’s bid to wipe his criminal record.
war dreams
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace/Koa Books
Two of my 'war dreams' poems were included in this anthology edited by Maxine Hong Kingston. The book won the 2007 Northern California Book Reviewers Special Award in Publishing the year before Maxine was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2008 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Our veterans writing group continues to meet seasonally in Sebastopol, California.
Maps & Postscript
TrenchArt Monographs: hurry up please its time / Les Figues Press
A new anthology of poetics through collected monographs by Les Figues Press authors. The books in the TrenchArt series are experiments in language, and the aesthetic essays in this anthology investigate the why of those experiments. The essays challenge, too, what an essay looks like, what an essay can do. Manifestos, lists, performative pieces, visual art, critical essays, marginalia, and the entirely unclassifiable—these pieces pull, prod, and play with the concept of “language” from all directions, misdirections, and sometimes no direction at all.
Democratic Kampuchea's Genocide of the Cham
diaCRITICS
Through text and image, I discuss the experiences of genocide and the pursuit of justice and healing for the Cham in Cambodia, an ethnic and religious minority persecuted under the Khmer Rouge during Democratic Kampuchea.
diaCRITICIZE: On Motherland (Re)turns
diaCRITICS
My first editor's letter, about the dilemmas regarding ‘authentic’ belonging as Vietnamese American of Cham-French and Euro-American descent. I also discuss a trip to Việt Nam undertaken with the only Vietnamese American friend I made while living in Oklahoma from 1986 to 1994.
(Im)moveable Feasts—An Interview with Natalia Duong
diaCRITICS
diaCRITIC Julie Thi Underhill met up with Natalia Duong, a performance artist, choreographer, and scholar who’s recently returned to the Bay Area after four years away. Due to their creative and conceptual engagements, Julie’s in-depth conversation with Natalia continues a three-year dialogue about artistic practices, embodied memories, and the lingering proliferations of colonialism and warfare.
Pasadena
Hayden's Ferry Review/Arizona University Press
My memoir prose poem 'Pasadena' is included in the Short Forms issue of spring/summer.
Memory Without Pyrotechnics
diaCRITICS
An interview with the writer Vu Tran, who’d been selected as a 2011 finalist for the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, awarded to foreign-born individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievement during the early stages of their careers.
Appreciation: Tam Tran, Advocate for the Undocumented
New America Media
Shortly after her death, my tribute to Tam Tran, who became one of the nation’s leading advocates for the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (“DREAM Act”). In 2007, Tam testified before Congress and continued to advocate on behalf of undocumented students until her death.
The Gift Horse of War
Completely Mixed Up: Mixed Heritage Asian North American Writing and Art / Rabbit Fool Press
Edited by Brandy Lien Worrall-Soriano, 'Completely Mixed Up' is an anthology fifteen years in the making. The project started in 2000, with a trilogy of 700 handmade chapbooks. Over the years, the project has been presented all throughout North America, most notably in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, and New York. Seventy contributors offer over 150 works of visual art, writing, photography, and performance in this groundbreaking anthology, displaying creative expressions of what it means to be mixed race/mixed heritage Asian American and Canadian.
Ghosts
Embodying Asian/American Sexualities, Lexington Books
My memoir essay 'Ghosts' is the final chapter of this anthology, a collection that forges a new intellectual frontier for critical race and queer studies.
Slipknot
in the plain turn of the body make a sentence/Les Figues Press
Through pen-and-ink illustration of two crows interlocked in midflight, I created the cover art, 'Slipknot,' for Sissy Boyd's collection of two plays.
Call and Response: A Review of Bao Phi’s Sông I Sing
diaCRITICS
A review of Bao Phi’s debut poetry collection 'Sông I Sing,' released in October by Coffee House Press.
Coming Out, Coming Home -- Thao P. Nguyen's 'Fortunate Daughter'
diaCRITICS
A review of Thao P. Nguyen's "one dyke" tragicomedy show, performed at the Impact Theater in Berkeley, set within sociopolitical and cultural context of how queerness circulates as tacit knowledge within the Vietnamese-American community due to values which de-emphasize individualism and emphasize a desire to "save face," at the same time the pro-LBGTQ rights movement encourages visibility.
Inheriting the War
WW Norton
Three poems included in this expansive collection. In this anthology, descendants of Vietnam veterans and refugees confront the aftermath of war and, in verse and prose, deliver another kind of war story.
Luminous Elegies
Positions: Asia Critique/Duke University Press
This special issue on Southeast Asians in the Diaspora (Summer 2012) includes "Luminous Elegies," a portfolio of my Cham family portraiture, prefaced by my artist's statement challenging the conventions of "salvage ethnography," amidst threats to the continuation of the Cham community in Viet Nam. My photograph "Aunts and An Uncle" is also on the journal's cover.
A River Changes Course
Visual Anthropology
Julie Thi Underhill reviews 'A River Changes Course,' a powerful documentary film by Kalyanee Mam about the human impact of manmade environmental catastrophes in Cambodia. Mam's film explores the damage rapid development has wrought in her native Cambodia. The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2013 and won the Grand Jury Prize for World Documentary. Julie cogently examines the themes of the film and addresses their relevance for anthropologists.
diaCRITICIZE: You Didn’t Kill Us All, You Know
diaCRITICS
In this exclusive new diaCRITICIZE, Julie Thi Underhill offers an in-depth introduction to the sometimes fraught relationship between Chăm Americans and Vietnamese Americans. She raises difficult questions, including why Vietnamese and Vietnamese Americans would rather forget the conquest of the Chăm, the continuing existence of the Chăm people, and whether or not the Chăm can be compared to Native Americans. She concludes on a hopeful note whereby Chăm Americans and Vietnamese Americans can begin filling in together the “blank pages” of shared history and memory.
On Thích Quảng Đức, Bà Đặng Thị Kim, and Self Immolation
diaCRITICS
I comment upon the historical religious practice of self-immolation and the political suicide of Tạ Phong Tần’s mother, Bà Đặng Thị Kim Liêng, before reprinting an article about the circumstances surrounding her July 2012 death to protest her daughter's arrest and imprisonment.
Corner Shore, Progress Report, Grandma, Tra Cang Monastery, and Fear of Ambivalence
Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora / University of Washington Press
Pairing image and text, 'Troubling Borders' showcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. The collection features compelling storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women. The diverse voices featured here have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization.
diaCRITICIZE: Off The Mark—Wahlberg #CrimingWhileWhite
diaCRITICS
Reflects on Wahlberg’s rise to fame as rapper, actor, and media mogul after his anti-Vietnamese hate crimes committed in Boston, in the city’s largest neighborhood of Dorchester, as a teenager. As the US is also simultaneously rocked by protests over police brutality against people of color, Underhill examines the timing of Wahlberg’s bid to wipe his criminal record.
war dreams
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace/Koa Books
Two of my 'war dreams' poems were included in this anthology edited by Maxine Hong Kingston. The book won the 2007 Northern California Book Reviewers Special Award in Publishing the year before Maxine was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2008 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Our veterans writing group continues to meet seasonally in Sebastopol, California.
Maps & Postscript
TrenchArt Monographs: hurry up please its time / Les Figues Press
A new anthology of poetics through collected monographs by Les Figues Press authors. The books in the TrenchArt series are experiments in language, and the aesthetic essays in this anthology investigate the why of those experiments. The essays challenge, too, what an essay looks like, what an essay can do. Manifestos, lists, performative pieces, visual art, critical essays, marginalia, and the entirely unclassifiable—these pieces pull, prod, and play with the concept of “language” from all directions, misdirections, and sometimes no direction at all.
Democratic Kampuchea's Genocide of the Cham
diaCRITICS
Through text and image, I discuss the experiences of genocide and the pursuit of justice and healing for the Cham in Cambodia, an ethnic and religious minority persecuted under the Khmer Rouge during Democratic Kampuchea.
diaCRITICIZE: On Motherland (Re)turns
diaCRITICS
My first editor's letter, about the dilemmas regarding ‘authentic’ belonging as Vietnamese American of Cham-French and Euro-American descent. I also discuss a trip to Việt Nam undertaken with the only Vietnamese American friend I made while living in Oklahoma from 1986 to 1994.
(Im)moveable Feasts—An Interview with Natalia Duong
diaCRITICS
diaCRITIC Julie Thi Underhill met up with Natalia Duong, a performance artist, choreographer, and scholar who’s recently returned to the Bay Area after four years away. Due to their creative and conceptual engagements, Julie’s in-depth conversation with Natalia continues a three-year dialogue about artistic practices, embodied memories, and the lingering proliferations of colonialism and warfare.
Pasadena
Hayden's Ferry Review/Arizona University Press
My memoir prose poem 'Pasadena' is included in the Short Forms issue of spring/summer.
Memory Without Pyrotechnics
diaCRITICS
An interview with the writer Vu Tran, who’d been selected as a 2011 finalist for the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, awarded to foreign-born individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievement during the early stages of their careers.
Appreciation: Tam Tran, Advocate for the Undocumented
New America Media
Shortly after her death, my tribute to Tam Tran, who became one of the nation’s leading advocates for the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (“DREAM Act”). In 2007, Tam testified before Congress and continued to advocate on behalf of undocumented students until her death.
The Gift Horse of War
Completely Mixed Up: Mixed Heritage Asian North American Writing and Art / Rabbit Fool Press
Edited by Brandy Lien Worrall-Soriano, 'Completely Mixed Up' is an anthology fifteen years in the making. The project started in 2000, with a trilogy of 700 handmade chapbooks. Over the years, the project has been presented all throughout North America, most notably in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, and New York. Seventy contributors offer over 150 works of visual art, writing, photography, and performance in this groundbreaking anthology, displaying creative expressions of what it means to be mixed race/mixed heritage Asian American and Canadian.
Ghosts
Embodying Asian/American Sexualities, Lexington Books
My memoir essay 'Ghosts' is the final chapter of this anthology, a collection that forges a new intellectual frontier for critical race and queer studies.
Slipknot
in the plain turn of the body make a sentence/Les Figues Press
Through pen-and-ink illustration of two crows interlocked in midflight, I created the cover art, 'Slipknot,' for Sissy Boyd's collection of two plays.
Call and Response: A Review of Bao Phi’s Sông I Sing
diaCRITICS
A review of Bao Phi’s debut poetry collection 'Sông I Sing,' released in October by Coffee House Press.
Coming Out, Coming Home -- Thao P. Nguyen's 'Fortunate Daughter'
diaCRITICS
A review of Thao P. Nguyen's "one dyke" tragicomedy show, performed at the Impact Theater in Berkeley, set within sociopolitical and cultural context of how queerness circulates as tacit knowledge within the Vietnamese-American community due to values which de-emphasize individualism and emphasize a desire to "save face," at the same time the pro-LBGTQ rights movement encourages visibility.
Inheriting the War
WW Norton
Three poems included in this expansive collection. In this anthology, descendants of Vietnam veterans and refugees confront the aftermath of war and, in verse and prose, deliver another kind of war story.
Luminous Elegies
Positions: Asia Critique/Duke University Press
This special issue on Southeast Asians in the Diaspora (Summer 2012) includes "Luminous Elegies," a portfolio of my Cham family portraiture, prefaced by my artist's statement challenging the conventions of "salvage ethnography," amidst threats to the continuation of the Cham community in Viet Nam. My photograph "Aunts and An Uncle" is also on the journal's cover.
A River Changes Course
Visual Anthropology
Julie Thi Underhill reviews 'A River Changes Course,' a powerful documentary film by Kalyanee Mam about the human impact of manmade environmental catastrophes in Cambodia. Mam's film explores the damage rapid development has wrought in her native Cambodia. The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2013 and won the Grand Jury Prize for World Documentary. Julie cogently examines the themes of the film and addresses their relevance for anthropologists.
diaCRITICIZE: You Didn’t Kill Us All, You Know
diaCRITICS
In this exclusive new diaCRITICIZE, Julie Thi Underhill offers an in-depth introduction to the sometimes fraught relationship between Chăm Americans and Vietnamese Americans. She raises difficult questions, including why Vietnamese and Vietnamese Americans would rather forget the conquest of the Chăm, the continuing existence of the Chăm people, and whether or not the Chăm can be compared to Native Americans. She concludes on a hopeful note whereby Chăm Americans and Vietnamese Americans can begin filling in together the “blank pages” of shared history and memory.
