Suong Thai

Suong Thai is a PhD student in Cultural and Comparative Studies – Japan Focus. She received a BA in Literature from University of Social Sciences and Humanities, HCMC (Vietnam), and an MA in Asian Studies from Leiden University (the Netherlands). Her research focuses on comparing feminine sexuality in modern Vietnamese and Japanese women’s literatures, exploring the representations of women’s sexuality as a literary language to define individual, cultural and national identities. Her general interests also include (post/de)colonialism, psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality.