Alan Yeh is a Ph.D. candidate in French at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studies refugitude aesthetics, memory, care, and food in 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature, especially of the Vietnamese diaspora. His research has appeared in L’Esprit Créateur and has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and Mellon Foundation as well as Berkeley’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies. His dissertation uncovers transdiasporic approaches to a politics of care in displacement narratives entangled in histories of colonialism and continuous migration flows in and out of Southeast Asia. Foregrounding refugee experiences and epistemologies, this project combines archival research and community oral histories with close readings of culinary encounters and tensions in diasporic Vietnamese literature, graphic novels, and film.
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French, UC Berkeley
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