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Hao Jun Tam (Howie)

Ph.D.

 

(he/him/his)

2019 Ph.D. Graduate
Dissertation Advisor(s): Josephine Park
"Rewriting Vietnam: Forms of Nationhood in Diasporic Literature"

Assistant Professor of English, Brandeis University

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Howie Tam earned his Ph.D. in English at the University of Pennsylvania in 2019. His essays have appeared in American Literature and the Journal of Vietnamese Studies.

 

 

Awards

2018 SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF)
2017 Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the Centre for Teaching and Learning
2017 Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF)

News & Events

2019/07/15
Howie Tam Dissertation Defense
2019/01/16
Mock Job Talk: Hao Jun Tam, "Diasporic Unsettlement: Liberal Inclusion and Its Discontents in Linda Lê’s Slander and Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer”
2018/04/20
PhD students Brooke Stanley and Howie Tam awarded 2018-19 Dissertation Completion Fellowships
2018/03/12
CTL Workshop: Student Presentations: Protocols, Tweaks, and Alternatives
2018/02/28
CTL Workshop: Creative Assignments and Ways to Evaluate Them with Julia Bloch
2018/01/31
CTL Workshop: The Art and Craft of the Syllabus
2017/11/14
CTL Workshop: Different Ways of Teaching Theory
2017/10/24
CTL Workshop: Creating an Inclusive Classroom for Trans and Gender Nonconforming Students
2017/09/26
CTL, Accessibility and Inclusion for Students and Instructors with Disabilities
2017/09/26
Center for Teaching and Learning Workshop: Accessibility and Inclusion for Students and Instructors with Disabilities
2016/11/03
UAB Student-Faculty Tea
2016/04/20
Viet Thanh Nguyen (University of Southern California)
2015/02/19
Boy Harems: Queer Visual Culture, Colonialism, and Diaspora
2014/11/13
Race Across Time and Space

Courses Taught

fall 2016

ENGL 200.303 American Immigrant Narratives  

spring 2015

ENGL 104.409 The Twentieth Century