Hi, I'm Giang!

I am a 3rd-year Linguistics PhD Student at the University of Pennsylvania where I am advised by Marlyse Baptista and Julie Legate. I am broadly interested in language (education) policy, the syntax of understudied languages, and postcolonial studies. My recent research in linguistics examines language contact with English in Vietnam, Vietnam's language education policy, and Vietnamese syntax in the context of East/Southeast Asia. At Penn, I am affiliated with the Language Contact and Cognition Lab and the Penn Syntax Lab. I am also pursuing a Graduate Certificate in French and Francophone Studies, focusing on Vietnamese diaspora and colonial literature through a postcolonial lens.

I earned my BA in Linguistics and French Studies at Emory University, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. My undergraduate thesis in Linguistics, which received Highest Honors, explores how educators at a primary school in Sapa, Vietnam are playing different roles to advocate for Mông minority language programs with different stakeholders.

My Vietnamese name is Đặng Quỳnh Giang [ɗăŋ6 kwiŋ2 zaŋ1]. I publish under Quynh-Giang Dang, but I just go by Giang.

When I'm not doing linguistics or literature, you'll find me enjoying some forms of art. I love the performing arts (in descending order of preference): musicals, operas, plays, and ballets. I also like the visual arts, and French Impressionism has a special place in my heart. I'm currently pursuing a Barnes-de Mazia Certificate at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia with a Richard J. Wattenmaker Scholarship.

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