About Us

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 advisor to NXB The Gioi in Ha Noi before founding Viet Nam Literature Project while earning his doctorate in Anthropology at Chapel Hill after fieldwork in Paris.

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.

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 an editor at the San Jose Mercury News.

Daniel Egger is founder and chair of Open Source Risk Management in Durham.

Tom Enders is a managing director at CSC Global Health Solutions Practice.

James Friedlander owns and operates Academic Arrangements Abroad.

Stanley Katz is director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies.

Pamela Rosenthal is a professor of medicine at New York University.

Nancy Seybold develops web resources for health care in Washington, DC.

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.