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Quang Phu Van, Ph.D., University
of Oregon, has been teaching Vietnamese Language and Literature
at Yale for the Council
on Southeast Asia Studies since 1999, and has had a co-appointment
as Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy since 2004.
From 1995-1998, Dr. Van taught Vietnamese Language at the University
of Oregon, as well as courses in Vietnamese Literature, Folk Literature,
Multicultural Ethics and Eastern Philosophy, and served on the faculty
of two Southeast Asian Summer Language Institutes (SEASSI) in 1996
and 1997. He completed an M.A. in Philosophy at California State
University Long Beach in 1981, and received a PhD in Philosophy
from the University of Oregon in 2001 with the completion of his
dissertation, Nguyen Cong Tru's Poetic Vision: Roaming the World
and Wandering At Ease. Dr. Van's studies and research interests
are in the areas of Confucian thought and its reception in Vietnamese
culture, as well as Vietnamese literature, folk literature and poetry.
Dr. Van currently teaches courses in Vietnamese language, as well
as a course on Vietnamese Culture and Literature in Translation,
and a course in Eastern Philosophy. (See www.yale.edu/seas/Courses).
As part of an ongoing Instructional Innovation Project, Dr. Van
returns to Vietnam regularly to develop audio-video teaching materials,
producing DVD-based instructional language lessons and culturally
informative videos.
In addition to teaching, Dr. Van is a faculty advisor for the Yale
Vietnamese Studies Group (YVSG), and maintains an active role
with Yale's undergraduate Vietnamese
Student Association (ViSA). Dr. Van is the primary liason between
Yale University and Hue University in Vietnam, promoting and coordinating
educational cooperation and exchange between these two institutions.
He is a participating member of GUAVA
(Group
of Universities for the Advancement of Vietnamese Abroad) in
the U.S., and represents the SEAS Council at numerous national and
international conferences and workshops on teaching of Vietnamese
and other less commonly taught languages.
Contact information:
Quang Phu Van
Council on Southeast Asia Studies
Yale University
P.O. Box 208206
New Haven, CT 06520-8206
Campus: 314 Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse
Ave.
Tel: (203) 436-4192
Fax: (203) 432-3432
E-mail: quang.van@yale.edu
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