Thuyen Viet Truong

Thuyen Viet Truong is a PhD student who studies and teaches global Anglophone literature with a focus on Africa and Africa-Asia relations. His master’s thesis, “The Making of World Literature: The Afro-Asian Nexus, the Aesthetics of Resistance, and the Cold War,” conceives Afro-Asian cultural alliances as indispensable to the project of envisioning a world literary paradigm. His current work aims to read Africa-Asia relations through the lenses of ecology, print culture, and literary and cultural studies, articulating a theory of “eco-relationality” and a concept of “instrumental analogy” to read African literature(s) in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.