Anne Cong-Huyen
Department of English
2607 South Hall
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
anne_conghuyen (at) umail.ucsb.edu
Education
University of California, Santa Barbara
Doctorate of Philosophy, English Literature, expected Spring 2013
California State University, San Marcos
Master of Arts, Literature and Writing, Spring 2007
International Teacher Training Organization, Guadalajara Mexico
TEFL Certificate, Summer 2004
University of California, San Diego
Bachelors of Arts, Literatures of the World, June 2004
Research Interests
- Transnational migration and labor
- Globalization and Neo-liberalism
- Digital media
- Anglophone literature
- Popular culture and Cultural Studies
Awards and Honors
Graduate Research Fellow, American Cultures and Global Contexts Center,
UC Santa Barbara
Fall 2011-Winter 2012
HASTAC Scholar, Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory
Duke University, North Carolina
Sept. 2009-June 2010
Graduate Student Scholarship, Digital Humanities Summer Institute
University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.
June 2009
Eugene Cota Robles Graduate Fellowship, Graduate Division
University of California, Santa Barbara
Fall 2008- Spring 2010
Graduate Research Dissemination Fund
California State University, San Marcos
Winter 2007
Teaching and Research Experience
University of California, Santa Barbara
Teaching Assistant, English 165AC: Rick Society, co-taught with Bishnupriya Ghosh, Winter 2012
Teaching Associate, English 165LF: Literature and Film – Translation, Adaptation, and the Global Media Assemblage
Summer 2011
Teaching Assistant, English 187LL: Literature and Life
Spring 2011
Teaching Assistant, English 10: Introduction to Literary Study
Summer 2010, Winter 2011
Teaching Assistant, English 50: Introduction to Asian American Literature
Fall 2010
Project Coordinator, Transliteracies Project
Winter 2010, Spring 2010 <http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu/category/research-project>
Forum co-host. “Race, Ethnicity, and Diaspora in the Digital Age.” February 2010. HASTAC Scholars forum. <http://www.hastac.org/forums/hastac-scholars-discussions/race-ethnicity-and-diaspora-digital-age>
Research Assistant, English Department Website Redesign
UC Santa Barbara, Winter 2010, Spring 2010
California State University, San Marcos
Teaching Associate, General Education Writing, Fall 2006
Writing Consultant, Writing Center, Spring 2006, Fall 2006
Classroom Consultant, General Education Writing 50/101, Spring 2006
Additional Teaching Experience
English Teacher, Soluciones Idiomáticas, San José, Costa Rica, Winter 2005, Spring 2005
Spanish Tutor, The Preuss School, UCSD, Winter 2004, Spring 2004
Publications
Print:
“Teaching Asian American Graphic Narratives in a ‘Post-Race’ Era.” Book Chapter co-authored with Carol Kyungah Hong . Teaching Graphic Narratives: Critical Approaches. (Forthcoming)
Online:
ConceptVISTA Research Report, Transliteracies Research Project
World Cat Identities Research Report, Transliteracies Research Project
Presentations
“The Crisis of Foreign Laborers in Dubai.”
Santa Barbara Global Studies Conference: Santa Barbara, CA. February 2012.
“Digital Voices: Migrant Workers in Digital Texts of Dubai and Los Angeles.”
Modern Language Association: Seattle, WA. January, 2012.
“Transformative Mediations? Ethnic and Queer Studies and the Politics of the Digital.” (Roundtable) American Studies Association: Baltimore, MD. October, 2011.
“Aliens and Others in Justice League of America/The 99.“
Comic Arts Conference, San Diego Comic Con: San Diego, CA. July 2011
“E-Mail Order Brides: The Transnational Mediated Consumption of Love and Sex in Love Like Hate.”
Association of Asian American Studies: New Orleans,LA. May 2011
“E-Mail Order Brides: The Transnational Mediation of Love, Sex, and Mobility in Linh Dinh’s Love Like Hate.”
Technologies of Migration: Asia, Media, Mobility, and Virtuality 2011: Urbana-Champaign, IL. April 2011
“Cycling the U.S. – Vietnam Landscapes: Mapping the Traumas of Catfish and Mandala.”
American Literature Association: San Francisco, CA. May 2010.
“The Transnational Geo-Social Configurations of Catfish and Mandala.”
UCSB Literature.Culture.Media Center Research Slam: University Santa Barbara, CA. May 2010.
“CouchSurfing Toward Self: Identity in Literary and Virtual Space.”
Digital Humanities Summer Institute: University of Victoria, Canada. June 2009
“Self-hatred and Rejection: The Cylon Woman and the Search for Her Own Humanity.”
PCA/ACA Annual Conference: Boston, Massachusetts. April 2007.
“MySpace in the Composition Classroom: Bringing ‘SexyBack’.”
Southwest/Texas, PCA/ACA Annual Conference: Albuquerque, New Mexico. Feb. 2007.
Affiliations
Association for Asian American Studies, Member
Association for the Study of Multi Ethnic Literature in the U.S., Member
Modern Language Association, Member
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Member
UCSB American Studies and Global Contexts Center, Affiliated Graduate Student
UCSB Transcriptions Center, Affiliated Graduate Student
UCSB Association of Pacific-Islander and Asian Graduate Students, Member
