Viet Nam Literature Project is a d/b/a for Books & Authors: Viet Nam, Inc., a federally recognized educational non-profit corporation in North Carolina. We are funded by gifts.
Editor and Publisher
Dan Duffy is a career editor of scholarship and literature from Viet Nam and from the American war there. Educated at Exeter and Yale, he served as editor at Viet Nam Generation, Inc. and the Yale University Council on Southeast Asia Studies and consultant to NXB The Gioi in Ha Noi. He wrote his master’s thesis on an intelligence archive in wartime Saigon and his doctoral dissertation in Anthropology at Chapel Hill about the Vietnamese bookstores of Paris, France.
Advisory Committee
Linh Dinh is a poet. Widely published in both Vietnamese and English, he as well translates Vietnamese fiction and poetry into English and Italian and teaches at universities around the United States and Europe.
Lucien Ellington is founder of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) teaching journal Education About Asia and editor of the AAS pedagogical series Key Issues in Asian Studies. A former high school teacher, he is UC Professor of Education at the University of Tennessee, Chatanooga and Senior Fellow at the Wachman Center of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He serves as state coordinator for the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia and has led hundreds of courses, institutes and tours for those teaching about China, Korea, and especially Japan.
C. David Thomas founded the Indochina Arts Project, now the Indochina Arts Partnership, bringing hundreds of artists back and forth between Viet Nam and the United States since 1988.
Board of Directors
Peter Delevett, travel writer, is a reporter at the San Jose Mercury News.
Daniel Egger is a professor of engineering at Duke University. He wrote the first patent on algorithmic search.
Tom Enders is a managing director at Manatt Health Solutions.
James Friedlander owns and operates Academic Arrangements Abroad.
Pamela Rosenthal is a professor of medicine at New York University.
Nancy Seybold develops web resources for health care in Washington, DC.
