Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox is Professor in the Department of History and Non-Western Cultures at Western Connecticut State University. He specializes in the intellectual history, literary history, and historiography of Vietnam from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, and has secondary interests in cross-cultural relations, world history, religion, and philosophy. He is the author of Allegories of the Vietnamese Past: Unification and the Production of a Modern Historical Identity (Yale Southeast Asia Studies, 2011), East Asia and the West (with Xiaobing Li and Yi Sun), and the editor of Vietnam and the West: New Approaches (Cornell SEAP, 2010). His journal articles, which cover such diverse subjects as authorship, gender and historiography, Vietnamese theatre, existentialism, and conceptions of world history, have appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, South East Asia Research, and World History Connected, among other journals.

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