About Us
Editor
Dan Duffy is a career editor of Viet Nam area
studies in English. He has worked as editor at the American
Studies press, Viet Nam Generation, Inc., on the research series
Viet Nam Forum and Lac Viet at the Yale University Council
on Southeast Asia Studies, and as a guest at the World Publishing
House in Ha Noi. With support from the Ford Foundation and
the Department of State he has arranged for visits by Vietnamese
writers to the United States. He has served as advisory editor
on Viet Nam to the teaching journal, Education About Asia,
since its founding.
Duffy is a university research specialist on
Vietnamese literature. Literate in Vietnamese and French, Duffy
has taught modern and contemporary Vietnamese literature at
Yale and at Chapel Hill. He is a graduate of Phillips Exeter
Academy, Yale College, and a former Chateaubriand fellow at
Langues Orientales in Paris.
Over academic year 2006-7 Duffy will defend his doctorate
in anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, on research in the United States and in France leading
to the Viet Nam Literature Project. He is a non-resident Rockefeller Fellow at the William Joiner Center of the University of Massachusetts, for building a wiki to the communities of Viet Nam literature scholars through VNLP.
Publicist
Marjory Heath Wentworth is Poet Laureate of South Carolina.
Her poems have appeared in numerous books and magazines, and
she has twice been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. Nightjars,
a chapbook of her poems, was published by Laurel Publishing
in 1995. Her poems have been published with Mary Edna Fraser's
art in a book of poetry and monotype prints called What the
Water Gives Me. Noticing Eden, a collection of poems, was published
by Hub City Press in October 2003. Educated at Mt. Holyoke
College and Oxford University, she received her M.A. in English
Literature and Creative Writing from New York University. She
serves on the Board of Directors of the Southern Literature
Council of Charleston.
For over 20 years Ms. Wentworth has worked for numerous publishers
and authors organizing publicity and marketing campaigns. Based
in New York City for ten years, she served as the U.S. PR/Marketing
Director for London based Reader's International (associated
with Amnesty International), Serpent's Tail Press, and Persea
Books. During that time she facilitated a one million dollar
library grant for the Rockefeller Foundation and established
herself as a freelance publicist. Since moving to South Carolina
in 1989, she specializes in regional author tours of the region.
She works often with Asian-American documentary films.
Board of Directors
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