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Panivong Norindr

Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature

Contact Information
Office: THH 155D
Phone: (213)821-1167
E-mail: norindr@usc.edu

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Education

B.S. Biochemistry & French, State University of New York--Stony Brook, 5/1983
M.A. Romance Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, 5/1985
Ph.D. Romance Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, 10/1990
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Postcolonial theory, film, and cultural studies. French colonial ideology in architecture, film and literature in Indochina.
 

Research Specialties

Professor Norindr's areas of research include comparative literature, postcolonial theory, contemporary French studies and French and Southeast Asian cinema.
 

Publications

Book Chapter

Norindr, P. (2006). "The Fascination for Angkor Wat and the Ideology of the Visible. pp. 54-70. London, UK / New York, NY: Routledge.
Norindr, P. (2006). "Vietnam: Chronicles of Old and New.". pp. p.45-57. Oxford, United Kingdom: Contemporary Asian Cinema: Popular Culture in a Global Frame/Berg Publishers.
Norindr, P. (2006). The Fascination for Angkor and the Ideology of the Visible. pp. p.54-70. London, UK / New York, NY: The Fascination for Angkor and the Ideology of the Visible/Routledge.
Norindr, P. (2005). Vietnam. (Vol. p. 110). London, UK / New York, NY: Vietnam/Routledge.
Norindr, P. (2004). “‘La Trace Lumière’: Early Cinema and Colonial Propaganda in French Indochina.”. pp. p. 329-339.. Lausanne, Switzerland: Le Cinématographe, nouvelle technologie du XXe siècle/Payot.
Norindr, P. (2001). “The Postcolonial Cinema of Lam Le: Screens, the Sacred, and the Unhomely in Poussière d’empire.”. pp. p. 143-157. New York: Of Vietnam: Identities in Dialogue/Palgrave.
Norindr, P. (1996). "La plus grande France: French Cultural Identity and Nation-Building under Mitterrand". pp. p. 233-258.. Minneapolis, MN: Identity Papers: Scenes of Contested Nationhood in 20th Century France/University of Minnesota Press.
Norindr, P. (1996). "Filmic Memorial and Colonial Blues: Indochina in Contemporary French Cinema. pp. p. 120-146.. Austin, Texas: Cinema, Colonialism, Postcolonialism: Perspectives from the French and Francophone World/University of Texas Press.
Norindr, P. (1995). "L'Indochinois dans l'imaginaire occidental". (Vol. 33-38.). Paris, France: Nous et l'Autre: Scènes et Types./Syros.
Norindr, P. (1994). "'Coming Home' on The Fourth of July: Constructing Immigrant Identities". pp. p. 233-250.. Displacements: Cultural Identity in Question/Indiana University Press.
 

Journal Article

Norindr, P. (2004). “Edward Said’s Legacy for French and Francophone Studies.”. Francophone Postcolonial Studies/Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies. Vol. Vol 2.2, pp. pp.69-74..
Norindr, P. (2001). “Aestheticizing Urban Space: Modernity in Postcolonial Hanoi and Saigon.”. L’Esprit Créateur/Department of French, University of Minnesota. Vol. Vol. XLI (Fall 2001), pp. 73-87..
Norindr, P. (1999). "Mourning, Memorials, and Filmic Traces: Reinscribing the 'Corps Étrangers’ and Unknown Soldiers in Bertrand Tavernier's Films. Studies in Twentieth Century Literature/University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Vol. Vol. 23.1 (Winter 1999), pp. 117-141..
Norindr, P. (1997). "'Popularizing' French Culture: The Bibliotheque de France.". Sites: The Journal of Contemporary French Studies/Taylor & Francis. Vol. Vol. 1 (Spring 1997), pp. 93-108.
Norindr, P. (1995). "Representing Indochina: The French Colonial Phantasmatic and the Exposition Internationale Coloniale de Paris.". French Cultural Studies/Sage Publications. Vol. Vol. 6.16 (February 1995), pp. 35-60..
Norindr, P. (1993). "Errances" and Memories in Marguerite Duras's Colonial Cities.". Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. Vol. Vol. 5.3, pp. pp. 52-79..
 

Honors and Awards

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Fellow at the Center for Twentieth Century Studies, 1996-1997  
Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1992-1993  
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Fellow at the Center for Twentieth Century Studies, 1990-1991  
 

Service to the Profession

Editorships and Editorial Boards

Editorial Board Member, Nouvelles Etudes Francophones, 2004-2007  
Editorial Board Member, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 2003-2007  
 

Professional Memberships

DOMITOR, 2001-2007  
Modern Language Association, 1988-2007  
 
 
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