Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities – The Life and Letters of Migration

Award-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen and his family came to the US as refugees during the Vietnam War. Motivated by the one-sided movies and books of the war he grew up with, Nguyen’s work examines the legacy of that tumultuous time and its aftermath from a new perspective. His acclaimed debut novel, The Sympathizer, won the Pulitzer Prize, was a Dayton Literary Peace Prize winner, and made the finalist list for the PEN/Faulkner award. Join us as Nguyen reads from his latest novel, The Committed, and talks with Penn scholars Josephine Park and Dagmawi Woubshet about literature, culture, politics, and migration.

Book signing to follow.

Cosponsored by Penn’s Department of English and Asian American Studies Program.

Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities – The Life and Letters of Migration