Dr. Anh Alan Nguyen

Visiting Assistant Professor

AnhLeasure Hall 103C
Office hours: Tues: 11 a.m. – noon, Weds: 1-2 p.m
aatnguyen@ksu.edu
Ph.D., University of New Mexico

 

 

 

 

Dr. Nguyen believes in the power of storytelling for expressing ourselves, cultivating self-reflexivity, connecting to others, perceiving the world, and working toward social transformation. He actively listens to everyone’s struggles and appreciates the learning opportunities communicating our different experiences affords us.

Research Interests

Dr. Nguyen's research interests center critical (inter)cultural communication; representational politics; intersectional rhetoric; media and communities; and queer of color critique.

He is working on a book project of critical diasporic rhetoric and interethnic articulation in SBTN, the Vietnamese diasporic American television networking in Orange County, California. Disrupting essentialist and nationalistic aesthetics of becoming desirable, the monograph challenges discursive inscription of postwar model minorities and its rhetorical outcomes toward Asian American tensions.

Awards and Recognition

2024 - The National Communication Association (NCA):

    • The Ralph Cooley Top Paper Award, International & Intercultural Communication Division
    • Top Four Paper Award, Asian/Pacific American Communication Studies Division

2023- The Western States Communication Association (WSCA):

    • Top Debut Paper Award, Communication, Identities, & Difference Interest Group

2022- The National Communication Association (NCA):

    • The Ralph Cooley Top Paper Award, International & Intercultural Communication Division

2021- The University of New Mexico (UNM):

    • The Glenda Lewis Critical Race Scholar Award

2020- The Central State Communication Association (CSCA)

    • Top Four Paper Award, Division of Activism, Communication Ethics, & Social Justice

Select Publications

Nguyen, A. A. T. & Eguchi, S. (Forthcoming). (Dis)locating Queer Citizenships: Autoethnography of Transnational Asian America through WeHo’s Made in Asia. In J. Kwon & S. Eguchi. Routledge Handbook of Communication & Transnationalism. Routledge.

Nguyen, A. A. T. (2025). Representational politics in the film series “Asian Americans”: The contestation of identity essentialism. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 49(2), 161-180. https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599221096644.

Nguyen. A. A. T. (2024). Decolonizing identitarian essentialism in Asian American social media activism. In P. Santos & C. Muneri (Ed., pp.45-66). Reading justice claims on social media: Perspectives from the Global South. Palgrave Mcmillan.

Nguyen, A. A. T; Ding, Z, & Eguchi, S. (2024). Asian American transnationalism: Queer diasporic critique on Netflix’s Bling Empire. Journal of Critical Studies in Media Communication, 41(1), 51-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2023.2276109.

Oloruntobi, T.; Nguyen, A. A. T; & Eguchi, S. (2023). Interrogating transnationalities: Collaborative autoethnography of becoming and being “International” in the academic-industrial complex. In A. Atay, S. Eguchi; & G. Pindi. (Ed., pp.129-155). Transnationalizing critical intercultural communication: Legacy, relevance, and future. Peter Lang.

Nguyen, A. A. T. (2022). Book reviews of Queering the global Filipina body: Contested nationalism in the Filipina/o diaspora. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 9(3), 245-248.

Courses

AMETH 160: Intro to American Ethnic Studies

AMETH 354: Asian American Perspectives: Representation & Activism

GWSS 325: Queer Studies: Concepts, History, Politics