Overview
Hoai Khai Tran is a student of Sino-Vietnamese Studies with particular interest in the literature and religions of Vietnam. He competed his undergraduate degree in Chinese Literature and Language at George Washington University before earning both his MA and PhD at Cornell University. He has spent almost a decade living in Hanoi, Vietnam, during which he served as a journalist, editor, and translator for Thế Giới Publishers and Vietnam Heritage Magazine as well as the chief curator of the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation’s digital archive of Sino-Vietnamese texts at the National Library of Vietnam. His current projects include work on the Buddhist traditions of the lower Mekong Delta, sixteenth-century vernacular Vietnamese literature, and historical uses of geomancy in Vietnam.
