English Department
Bunkong Tuon
Job Title
Associate Professor of English
Research interests
Contemporary ethnic literature, Asian American studies, Southeast Asian American literature and history, trauma studies, testimonial discourse, creative writing, translation theory and practice, and folklore studies.
Publications
Journal Articles
Scholarly articles in Comparative Literature Studies, Children Literature Quarterly, Mosaic, MELUS, Pedagogy, Postcolonial Text, and Culture and Poetics.
Creative Works
(1) Poetry Collections: Dead Tongue (2020), The Doctor Will Fix It (Shabda Press, 2019), And So I Was Blessed (NYQ Books, 2017) and Gruel (NYQ Books, 2015).
(2) Magazines and journals: The Mekong Review, Consequence, Numéro Cinq, Cultural Weekly, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry Quarterly, Paterson Literary Review, Chiron Review, The Más Tequila Review, Nerve Cowboy, Misfit, Bateau Irve, The Journal of War, Literature & the Arts and others.
(3) Anthologies: Two-Countries: U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents (Red Hen Press, 2017), Modern Literature of Cambodia (Nou Hach Literary Assocation, 2016), Cadence Collective (Sadie Girl Press, 2015), With Our Eyes Wide Open: Poems of the New American Century (West End Press, 2014)
(4) Essays and Interviews in Cultural Weekly
Reviews and Interviews
Review of And So I Was Blessed by Rebecca Schumejda
Review of Gruel by Trena Machado
Additional media
Academic credentials
B.A., California State University at Long Beach; M.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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