I am a Ph.D. candidate in French, specializing in refugitude aesthetics, memory, care, and food in 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature, especially of the Vietnamese diaspora.
My dissertation examines care and its tensions by focusing on a primordial act of care in the Vietnamese diaspora: feeding. I argue that the culinary and commensal both serve as a primary means of care in displacement and can offer an analytic site for exploring care’s complexities....
