My name is Lilly U. Nguyen.
I am a writer and developmental editor.
I obtained my Ph.D. from UCLA and earned previous degrees from UC Berkeley and the London School of Economics and Political Science. I am trained as a feminist science and technology studies scholar. I also trained in anthropological methods of fieldwork. My academic writing brings together conversations across the divergent fields of gender studies, critical race studies, transnational Asian studies, digital humanities, media studies, science studies, and critical informatics.
I previously worked as an assistant professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. I also previously worked as a postdoctoral scholar at UC Irvine. My academic work has been recognized by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Fulbright International Institute of Education. My scholarly writing has been published in New Media and Society; Journal of Asian American Studies; Journal of Peer-Production; Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience; along with other venues.
I am the first-born daughter of Vietnamese war refugees who came to the U.S. as boat people in the late 1970s. My creative nonfiction writing considers this inheritance.