erin Khuê Ninh

has twice held fellowships at UCLA: a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in the English department, and a Visiting Scholar appointment at the Institute of American Cultures/Asian American Studies Center. Her first monograph, Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature, won the Literary Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies in 2013. Ninh's 2021 monograph is Passing for Perfect: College Impostors and Other Model Minorities, featured here in the New Yorker. She has served on the board of the Association for Asian American Studies; has been publisher and then blog editor for Hyphen magazine; and served on the screening committee and as editor of the catalog for the Vietnamese International Film Festival.