USC Dornsife News

In ‘Time’ magazine, Viet Thanh Nguyen of USC Dornsife explains why Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech about the Vietnam War remains relevant today. [1 ¼ min read]

The “genius grant” honors the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and professor of English, American studies and ethnicity and comparative literature, whose groundbreaking work has enabled Americans and others to view the Vietnam War from more balanced perspectives.

Peter Kuhn of biological sciences travels to Vietnam, where he explains the university’s personalized approach to treatment and research at an international oncology conference.

At the USC veterans gala, Viet Luong ’87 — the first U.S. military general born in Vietnam — recalls his family’s harrowing flight to freedom.

USC Dornisfe’s Viet Thanh Nguyen delivers an acclaimed nonfiction work on the Vietnam War that raises questions about the ethics of memory as he explores how different countries remember the conflict.

America has always regarded the Vietnam War as its own personal horror story. As we recognize the 50th anniversary of this tragic conflict, USC Dornsife scholars challenge this one-sided perspective, re-examining the legacy of what even the Vietnamese refer to as “The American War.”

USC Dornsife’s Viet Thanh Nguyen follows up his Pulitzer Prize win for fiction with a spot on the short list of the National Book Awards — this time for nonfiction.

The first Vietnamese-born American to earn the fifth-highest rank in the Army savors his special homecoming.

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s first novel explores the Vietnam War through the lens of his conflicted protagonist, an American-educated spy for the Viet Cong.