Autor: Shuli Branson

Mimi Thi Nguyen is Associate Professor of Gender and Women“s Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her first book, called The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages (Duke University Press, 2012), focuses on the promise of “giving” freedom concurrent and contingent with waging war. Her following project is called The Promise of Beauty. She has published widely, including in Signs, Camera Obscura, Women & Performance, positions, Radical History Review, and Art Forum. Her papers have been solicited for the Feminist Theory Archive at Brown University.