Mariam Lam, Ph.D., is a professor of literature, media & cultural studies, and Southeast Asian studies at the UC Riverside. She specializes in Vietnamese, Southeast Asian and Asian American literature, film, popular culture, gender and sexuality, translation, tourism and community politics. She is currently finishing her book project, “Viet Nam: Trauma, Memory, and Cultural Politics,” which analyzes cultural production and community politics within and across Vietnam, France, and the United States. She has taught at UC Irvine and Loyola Marymount University prior to UCR.