Autor: Chi P. Pham

Jörg Thomas Engelbert received his Ph D in Vietnamese studies in Vietnamese Studies and a second doctorate (Habilitation) in Southeast Asian history from Humboldt University, Berlin. Since 2002, he has worked as Professor of Vietnamese Language and Culture in the Department of Southeast Asian Languages and Cultures at the Asia-Africa Institute, The University of Hamburg. His research focuses on Vietnamese and Southeast Asian history, especially Việt folklore, literature, and relations between ethnic minority and majority groups. Chi P. Pham is a tenured researcher of the Institute of Literature, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. She received her first Ph D degree in Literary Theory in Vietnam and her second Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature in the United States. She is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, University of Hamburg, Germany. She has published articles in Vietnamese and English on post-colonial literature and nation-building. Her most recent publication is Literature and Nation-building in Vietnam: The Invisibilization of the Indians. Routledge, 2021.