Scholarship and Biography

Howie Tam is an assistant professor of English at Brandeis University, where he is affiliated to the Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies Program. 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 scholarly essays have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as American Literature, the Journal of Vietnamese Studies, and Verge: Studies in Global Asias. He previously held postdoctoral fellowships at Dartmouth and the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard.

Honors

Theodore and Jane Norman Fund for Faculty Scholarship
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), Spring 2024

Organizational Affiliations

Assistant Professor of English, Department of English, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Interdepartmental Program in Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies, Brandeis University

Past Affiliations

Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College (United States, Hanover)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University (United States, Cambridge)

Education

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