Marguerite Nguyen's areas of research include Asian American literature, critical refugee studies, and environmental humanities. She is author of America's Vietnam: The Longue Durée of U.S. Literature and Empire (Temple University Press, 2018) and co-editor of Refugee Cultures: Forty Years after the Vietnam War (MELUS, 2016). Her next project, "Refugee Ecologies," is based on research conducted in New Orleans on dynamics of race, migration, environment, and narrative form. It interprets American literature as a fraught practice of world-building in contexts of disaster and forced displacement, particularly as depicted by writers of color. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, and National Humanities Center.
