Fall 2017 seminar: Ph.D. candidate, comparative literature
Vinh Pham is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature. His current work deals with the intersections of race and gender in colonial Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on vernacular texts from French Indochina and the Spanish Philippines. Currently, he holds a B.A. as well as an M.A. in Spanish literature from Florida Atlantic University. In taking the Mellon Seminar, Pham hopes to gain more insight into contemporary issues in Berlin relating to immigration, international politics, and the resulting movement of peoples and their reception in the host country. He is hoping to develop a project that will push his engagement further with the problematics of immigration and integration, which he views as crucial since the question of immigration plays a central role in discourses relating to colonialism and the resulting literature.