Howie Tam

Florence Levy Kay Fellow in the Anglophone Literature and Film of the East Asian Diaspora

Departments/Programs

English
German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature

Degrees

University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania, M.A.
University of California, San Diego, B.A.

Expertise

Asian American literature, Vietnam War literature and film, multiethnic US literature, Cold War culture

Profile

Howie Tam, aka Hao J. Tam, is currently a Florence Kay Fellow in English, GRALL (German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature), AAPI Studies at Brandeis University. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania, and he is completing a book that rethinks the legacies of the Vietnam War in diasporic Vietnamese literature published in France and the U.S. Tam's essays have appeared in American Literature and the Journal of Vietnamese Studies. He previously held postdoctoral fellowships at Dartmouth and the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard.

Courses taught:
Fall 2021: AAPI 142A The War in Vietnam in Literature and Film
Spring 2022: ENG/AAPI 22B Asian American Literature

Scholarship

Tam, H. J.. "Refugee Racial Form, Vietnam War Legacies, and Late Liberal Affects in Freiheit, Little Fish, and On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous." Refugees, Refuge and Human Displacement. Ed. Ignacio López-Calvo, Marjorie Agosín. Anthem Press, 2022 (forthcoming)

Tam, H. J.. "Diasporic South Vietnam: Literary Nationalisms in Novels by Ly Thu Ho and Lan Cao." Journal of Vietnamese Studies 15. 2 (2020): 40–86.

Tam, H. J.. "Revising Ho Chi Minh: Diasporic Historical Fiction in The Book of Salt and The Zenith." American Literature 91. 2 (2019): 357–83.