Lan Duong is an Assistant Professor in the Media and Cultural Studies Department at UC Riverside. She is working on a book entitled Family Binds: Betrayal and Loyalty in Viet Nam and the Diaspora. The book explores the films and literature of the Vietnamese and Vietnamese diaspora through the theme of treason and the practices of collaboration. Dr. Duong's second book project, From the National to The Transnational: Cultural Revolutions of Vietnamese Cinema, examines Vietnamese cinema from its inception to the present-day. Her research interests include feminist film theory, Asian/American literature and films, postcolonial literature and theory, youth culture, gender, and sexuality. Her critical works can be found in Amerasia, The Journal of Asian Cinema, and Transnational Feminism in Cinema and Media. She is also a poet and has been published in Watermark, Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Poetry, and Crab Orchard Review.