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Academic essayist. | Research: Literary Studies of Science/STS , Food Literature, Expertise, Theoretical Shade | Host of Critical Literary Consumption podcast

 Boston, USA
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Joined May 2015
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@heyimshanna is the 2nd translator ft. on CLC! She shares her trajectory from language learning to translating, being associated with cozy reads after the success of Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop, the politics of translating, & more. To listen: open.spotify.com/episode/4Vq…
Cover art to podcast Critical Literary Consumption. Background is pale pink, on the left is a plate of four books. On top of the book stack is a slightly darker pink coffee cup. A gold pair of silverware stands forward on the stack.

ALT Cover art to podcast Critical Literary Consumption. Background is pale pink, on the left is a plate of four books. On top of the book stack is a slightly darker pink coffee cup. A gold pair of silverware stands forward on the stack.

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It’s happening! My new book of poems, Quintessential Earthly Activities, will be out April 13. Gorgeous cover art: @deeeeeejjj Glorious cover design: Sandy Knight Thanks to everyone who’s had a hand (& earthly heart!) in making this a reality. Preorder: boaeditions.org/book/quintes…
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𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha Anna Nguyen on 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝐸𝑡ℎ𝑛𝑖𝑐 & 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐶𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚 @columbiaup: "How delighted I was to encounter Rey Chow’s concept of coercive mimeticism. In thinking through ethnic representation..." chajournal.com/2026/10/31/pr…
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"I want to wake up and wear beautiful clothes every day but I wake up and stare at beautiful clothes every day" Anna Nguyen // There Are More Beautiful Things Than a Wong Kar-wai Film // Issue 123 vagabondcitylit.com/2026/09/…
There Are More Beautiful Things Than a Wong Kar-wai Film by Anna Nguyen

There Are More Beautiful Things Than a Wong Kar-wai Film by Anna Nguyen

(after Morgan Parker) Anna Nguyen abandoned her PhD studies and rewrote her dissertation in the form of creative non-fiction as an MFA student at Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine. She…

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We're pleased to announce that we have nominated the following three authors and their debut stories published in @asiancha for the 2027 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Congratulations to these writers & good luck! 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄: chajournal.com/2026/10/27/ro…
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Are you even a writer unless annoying, reactionary people hate what you’re doing?
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Here’s an excerpt from my new (prose!) book. It’s from the opening essay, which addresses 兔儿神/the Rabbit God, a queer Chinese deity from my home province of Fujian. In Cahoots with the Rabbit God is out on Dec. 1 from @Noemi_Press. Preorder now: noemipress.org/catalog/infid…
DEAR RABBIT GOD, I don't believe in suffering for one's art. I believe in frolicking for one's art. I believe in eating well for one's art. I believe in farting for one's art. I believe in making beautiful friends for one's art. And making plans with one's friends for one's art, I believe in this utterly. Especially when those friends hold you accountable to making your art, revising your thought, practicing your politics. I believe that my gaysian life is integral to my art and I believe that difference should be embraced, not shunned, not simplified. I believe that poems that love earthly difference alongside or even more than spiritual transcendence are better poems. I believe in falling wildly in love for one's art and for no reason at all. I believe in orgasming for one's art.

ALT DEAR RABBIT GOD, I don't believe in suffering for one's art. I believe in frolicking for one's art. I believe in eating well for one's art. I believe in farting for one's art. I believe in making beautiful friends for one's art. And making plans with one's friends for one's art, I believe in this utterly. Especially when those friends hold you accountable to making your art, revising your thought, practicing your politics. I believe that my gaysian life is integral to my art and I believe that difference should be embraced, not shunned, not simplified. I believe that poems that love earthly difference alongside or even more than spiritual transcendence are better poems. I believe in falling wildly in love for one's art and for no reason at all. I believe in orgasming for one's art.

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If we are serious about dismantling patriarchy and rape culture, we would stop calling it the Cornell 7. Passive bystanders are a pillar of misogyny. Men must actively intervene in shifting social norms & refuse to participate in rape *culture.* Its the Cornell 57.
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Spoke to the brilliant Dr. Alana Lentin. We talk why race still matters, race/racialization/racism, race as a technology, social construction, race as fact & fiction, state-sponsored scholarship, & why critical racial literacy matters. To listen: open.spotify.com/episode/09c…
Cover art to podcast Critical Literary Consumption. Background is pale pink, on the left is a plate of four books. On top of the book stack is a slightly darker pink coffee cup. A gold pair of silverware stands forward on the stack.

ALT Cover art to podcast Critical Literary Consumption. Background is pale pink, on the left is a plate of four books. On top of the book stack is a slightly darker pink coffee cup. A gold pair of silverware stands forward on the stack.

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𝐍𝐄𝐖@asiancha𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 | We're very pleased to present "January", from Anna Nguyen's 𝐴𝑛 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑦.This is her first published work of fiction. Anna's introduction: "The title itself reflects the way whiteness is viewed as universal." chajournal.com/2026/09/26/as…
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New #poem from Issue 123: There Are More Beautiful Things Than a Wong Kar-wai Film by Anna Nguyen vagabondcitylit.com/2026/09/…
There Are More Beautiful Things Than a Wong Kar-wai Film by Anna Nguyen

There Are More Beautiful Things Than a Wong Kar-wai Film by Anna Nguyen

(after Morgan Parker) Anna Nguyen abandoned her PhD studies and rewrote her dissertation in the form of creative non-fiction as an MFA student at Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine. She…

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This month's issue includes art by Vantage, CNF by Eric P. Miller, and poetry by Anna Nguyen, Samantha Ratcliffe, Melissa Eleftherion, and Peter Leight vagabondcitylit.com/tag/issu…
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Issue 123 is live! vagabondcitylit.com/tag/issu…
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𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 | Anna Nguyen on the preoccupation with trees in Victoria Chang’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑠 𝑊𝑖𝑡𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 and 𝑇𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐾𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒. She explores how Chang uses them to reflect on memory and mortality. chajournal.com/2026/09/14/vi…
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June Jordan said activism “propels you forward, from one hard hour to the next.” “Believing that you can do something to make things better, you do something, rather than nothing…You reach beyond yourself in your imagination, and in your wish for understanding, and for change.”
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𝐍𝐄𝐖@asiancha𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 Anna Nguyen considers Emily Eakin’s very recently released 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑚𝑒𝑛 (2026) alongside Xiaolu Guo’s 𝐴 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟’𝑠 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒 (2020), exploring theory, academia, language, & the return to everyday life. chajournal.com/2026/09/04/th…
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Breaking: US has announced sanctions & terror designations on Palestine Action. UK previously banned Palestine ​Action, and there is ongoing legal challenge. Solidarity must be unequivocal esp as Pal Action is one of the most effective & inspiring organizations.
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It's not a debate, sweethearts
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This is the real academic fraud story but the mainstream media is too busy laundering eugenics.
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I know the conventions across disciplines vary, but even just focusing on the first sentence alone, how does this meet the standards of a doctoral thesis? I have never even seen an UG essay contain something so general and without citation or parsing distinctions in the lit?
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Well, a German physicist calling eugenics “science” shouldn’t be surprising I suppose 😬
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I am strongly on the side of science, always have been, always will be
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Fellow ‘POC’ academics. Now is not the time to make ‘comparisons’ between our treatment and that of Professor Arday. This entire tragedy was specifically an anti-black project, planned to target one of the most prominent Black Professors who make up only 1% of UK faculty.
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