Sunday, December 19, 2010

Trinh T. Minh-ha

Trinh T. Minh-ha's website


Excerpt from her website:

Born in Vietnam, Trinh T. Minh-ha is a filmmaker, writer and composer.

Trinh Minh-ha has traveled and lectured extensively—in the States, as well as in Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand—on film, art, feminism, and cultural politics. She taught at the National Conservatory of Music in Dakar, Senegal (1977-80); at universities such as Cornell, San Francisco State, Smith, and Harvard, Ochanomizu (Tokyo); and is Professor of Women's Studies and Rhetoric (Film) at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Trinh T. Minh-ha in Wikipedia

Excerpt from her Wikipedia bio:

Trinh T. Minh-ha was born in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 1952. She was brought up in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. She studied piano and music composition at the National Conservatory of Music and Theater in Saigon. Trinh migrated to the United States in 1970. She studied music composition, ethnomusicology, and French literature at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where she received her M.F.A.s and Ph.D. degree. She has been teaching in the Gender and Women's Studies Department at the University of California, Berkeley since 1994 and in the Department of Rhetoric[3] since 1997. She has also taught at Harvard, Smith, Cornell, San Francisco State University, the University of Illinois, Ochanomizu University in Japan, and the National Conservatory of Music in Senegal. She is trained as a musical composer.

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