Mimi Khúc
Mimi Khúc is a writer and scholar working at the intersection of Asian American, gender, and disability studies.[1] Her work addresses decolonizing Asian American mental health and decolonizing mental health systems.[1][2] She is the author of dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss (Duke University Press, 2024).[3] She is the managing editor of the Asian American Literary Review and teaches at Georgetown University where she was Scholar/Artist/Activist in Residence in Disability Studies 2019-2021.[4] She is married to Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis and they have a daughter, Elia, and two sons.
Education and career
She earned her BA in Sociology & Religious Studies from the University of Maryland and an MA (2006) and PhD (2013) in Religious Studies from the University of California Santa Barbara.
Khúc worked at the University of Maryland from 2013 to 2017 as a lecturer in the Asian American Studies department.[5]
Publications
Books
- dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss. Duke University Press. 2024. ISBN 978-1478025672.[6]
Book Chapters
- Khúc, Mimi (2023-08-01). "1. Writing While Adjunct: A Contingent Pedagogy of Unwellness". Crip Authorship. New York University Press. pp. 25–32. doi:10.18574/nyu/9781479819386.003.0004. ISBN 978-1-4798-1938-6. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
- Khúc, Mimi (2020-08-31). "5: Where the History Books End". In Yoo, David K.; Joshi, Khyati Y. (eds.). Envisioning Religion, Race, and Asian Americans. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-8274-7.
- Khúc, Mimi (2016). "(Un)Making Mothers, Orphans, and Transnational Adoptees: The Afterlife of the Vietnam War in Aimee Phan's We Should Never Meet". In Kim, Nami; Joh, Wonhee Anne (eds.). Critical Theology against US Militarism in Asia: Decolonization and Deimperialization. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US. pp. 81–100. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-48013-2_4. ISBN 978-1-137-48013-2. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
Articles
- Chen, Mel Y.; Khúc, Mimi; Kim, Jina B. (2023-12-01). "Work Will Not Save Us: An Asian American Crip Manifesto". Disability Studies Quarterly. 43 (1). doi:10.18061/dsq.v43i1.9652. ISSN 2159-8371.
Artistic Projects
Book Art
- Khúc, Mimi (2016). Open in Emergency.[7]
Word Art
- Khúc, Mimi (2016). Asian American Tarot.[8]
- Davis, Lawrence-Minh Bùi; Khúc, Mimi (2019). The Book of Curses.[9]
References
- ^ a b Seo, Hannah (2024-03-26). "'We are all unwell': a scholar's radical approach to health". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
- ^ Zapata, Karina (2020-02-27). "Decolonizing mental health: The importance of an oppression-focused mental health system". Calgary Journal. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
- ^ "Dear elia".
- ^ "National Disability Mentoring Coalition (NDMC)". National Disability Mentoring Coalition (NDMC). Retrieved 2024-04-11.
- ^ Roscoe, Jack (2017-05-12). "UMD students fight to have Asian American Studies professor rehired next year". The Diamondback. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
- ^ Vala, Sara (2024-04-11). "Mimi Khúc On the Mental Health Crisis". The New Paltz Oracle. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
- ^ "Open in Emergency". mimi khúc. Retrieved 2025-09-05.
- ^ "The Asian American Tarot". mimi khúc. Retrieved 2025-09-05.
- ^ "Book of Curses". mimi khúc. Retrieved 2025-09-05.