CEAPS Brown Bag: "Keeping Afloat: Water, War, and Vietnamese Diaspora in Picture Books"
Join the Center for East Asian & Pacific Students for their first CEAPS Brown Bag of the 25-26 school year with Faculty Travel Grant recipient Sarah Park Dahlen & Michelle Lê!
Sarah Park Dahlen is an associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she is also affiliate faculty in the Department of Asian American Studies and the Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies. Her research is on Asian American youth literature and transracial Korean adoption. She co-edits Research on Diversity in Youth Literature and co-edited Harry Potter and the Other: Race, Justice, and Difference in the Wizarding World. Her next book with Paul Lai addresses Asian American youth literature. She is a board member of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature.
Michelle Lê is a current PhD candidate in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research is on Vietnamese American History, Vietnamese American youth literature, Asian American youth literature, Viet Nam War and Memory, and Oral History Archives.
This event is sponsored by Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies