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Vietnamese American writer, professor, and photographer Ocean Vuong will be in conversation with University of Toledo writer and professor, Joey S. Kim. This conversation will discuss themes of Asian and Asian American embodiment, visuality, labor, leisure, loss, and Vuong’s relationship to writing and photography. This event is a collaboration between the Toledo Museum of Art and the University of Toledo and is being held in conjunction with the debut of Vuong’s first photography display in Gallery 35.
Born in Saigon, Vietnam and raised in Hartford, Connecticut in a working-class family of nail salon and factory laborers, he was educated at nearby Manchester Community College before transferring to Pace University to study International Marketing. Without completing his first term, he dropped out and enrolled at Brooklyn College, where he graduated with a BA in Nineteenth Century American Literature. He subsequently received his MFA in Poetry from NYU. He currently splits his time between Northampton, Massachusetts and New York City, where he serves as a Professor in Modern Poetry and Poetics in the MFA Program at NYU.
Dr. Joey S. Kim is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toledo. Prior to arriving in Toledo, Dr. Kim was a postdoctoral fellow at Boston University's Kilachand Honors College and held teaching positions at Ohio State and UT-Austin. She researches global Anglophone literature with a focus on 19th-century poetics, global Asian cultures, Asian American literature, and critical race and ethnic studies. Her most recent book, Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation (Edinburgh UP 2023) highlights the racial and ethnic formation of the poetic subject in terms of Orientalism. Her next book project, The Yellow Nineteenth Century, traces the textual and synthetic nature of Asian American print-culture representations from the nineteenth century to the present day. A poet as well as a literary critic, her award-winning debut book of poems, Body Facts, was released by Diode Editions in 2021.
Recently recognized as one of the region’s 20 under 40 awardees, she is active in the community, working with the Arts Commission, the Toledo Fair Housing Center, the Toledo Lucas County Public Library, and local news outlets to amplify literature, the arts, and Asian American representation in the region.
Public Programs Presenting Sponsor, the Appold Family; Annual Public Programs Sponsor the Rita Barbour Kern Foundation.
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2445 Monroe St, Toledo, OH, United States, Ohio 43620
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