Curriculum Vitae
GIANG NGUYEN HOANG LE, PH.D. CANDIDATE
(Pronouns: He/his/him)
Department of Educational Studies
Faculty of Education
Brock University
gn19kq@brocku.ca
My Website
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0166-5974
January 15, 2023
EDUCATION
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Ph.D., Educational Studies, Brock University
2019 – Feb 2023 (expected)
Dissertation: Being a “gay boy” in Vietnam: Seeing and experiencing the world through
multimodal visual autoethnography; Supervisor: Professor Fiona Blaikie
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Instructor Certificate Program in University Teaching and Learning
2019
Centre for Pedagogical Innovation, Brock University
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M.Ed., (Distinct) Educational Leadership, Thompson Rivers University
2017 – 2019
Research Project: A model of professional learning community for Vietnamese teachers
of English; Supervisor: Professor Gloria Ramirez
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M.A., TESOL, Victoria University, Melbourne
Post Graduate Dip, TEFL, Vietnam National University (Ha Noi)
B.A., English Language Teaching, Nha Trang University
2014 – 2015
2013 – 2014
2007 – 2011
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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Faculty of Education, Brock University
B.Ed. course: EDUC 2P65-Diversity Issues in Schooling
Faculty of Education, Brock University
2022
2021 – 2022
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Writing Mentor for B.Ed. & M.Ed. students
Faculty of Education, Brock University
2019 – 2022
B.Ed. courses: EDUC 1F95-Introduction to Foundations of Education & EDUC 2P65Diversity Issues in Schooling
School of Education, Thompson Rivers University
2018 – 2019
Master of Education courses: EDUC 5040-Diversity Issues in Education, EDUC 5010Research Methods, EDUC 5030-Curriculum, Teaching & Learning, EDUC 5020Philosophy & History of Education
Faculty of Foreign Languages, Khanh Hoa University, Vietnam
2015 – 2016
B.Ed. courses: English for Communication, General English, English for Specific
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Department of Rural Development, Vietnam
2014 – 2017
Courses: Teacher Education & Training, English for General Purposes
Australian International Language School, Vietnam
2016 – 2017
Courses: English for Communication, IELTS, ESL
HONORS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
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Jack M. Miller Excellence in Research Award, Brock University
2021
Value: $1,000
Graduate Research Fellowship, Brock University
2020
Value: $4,000
Ph.D. Bursary, Faculty of Education, Brock University
2019 – 2021
Value: $1,000/year
Brock Funding Package for Ph.D. in Educational Studies
2019 – 2022
Graduate Fellowship, International Fellowship, International PhD Fellowship
Value: $35,000/year
Blanche E Snell Estate Fund: Project Ref. No. BESE 1819-3
2019
Value: $800
Graduate Research Committee of M.Ed Program Award, TRU
2019
Value: $750
International Student Award for Overall Excellence
2019
Graduate Student Spotlight
2018
Canadian Educational Researchers’ Association
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
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Research Assistant, Brock University
2020 – 2022
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Dr. Fiona Blaikie’s projects on visual identities of global youth and on transhumanism
and posthumanism in popular culture
Dr. Michael Mindzak’s project on higher education branding position
Dr. Catherine Hands’ project on at-risk youth’s community engagement in education
Research Assistant, Thompson Rivers University
2018 – 2019
The Language Learning Centre, Department of ESL’s project on ESL students’ success in
language education
GRANT WRITING EXPERIENCE AND FUNDING
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“The effectiveness of the Language Learning Centre in supporting ESL students’ success
using mixed methods”. Principal Investigator: Joe Dobson & Research Team: Giang Le,
Dian Henderson & Jack Massalski (2019, October). Funded by TRU, $6,000.
“Transhumanism and Posthumanism in popular culture through movies and children’s
stories”. Principal Investigator: Fiona Blaikie & Research Team: Giang Le & Sophia
Strachan (2021). Funded by Faculty of Graduate Studies, Brock University, $4,000.
RESEARCH FOCI
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Sociology of Education
Diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education and teacher education
International and comparative education
Youth and young adults’ identity constructs under the influence of popular culture and
celebrity influencers
Qualitative methods: auto/duo-ethnography, photovoice, memory-work, narrative
métissage, etc.
Post-qualitative inquiry and the applications of transgressive data in memory-driven
research
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming & Published (total: 20)
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Nguyen, T. T. M., Le, N. H. G., & Tran, C. (2022). The representation of gender sexual
minority groups in Vietnam’s ELT textbooks: A critical pedagogy perspective. In J. J.
Jeyaraj, T. Kiss, & D. Perrodin (Eds.), Critical pedagogies in English language learning
& teaching: Foundations, practices, and possibilities. MELTA-USM ELT in South East
Asia Series. Universiti Sains Malaysia Press.
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Blaikie, F., Le, N. H. G., & Strachan, S. (2022). Transhumanism, race, gender, and
culture in early 21st century superhero movies: Wonder Woman, Black Panther, &
Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragon. Journal of Visual Culture and Gender, 17(1), 6573.
Le, N. H. G., Blaikie, F., & Vu, H. L. (forthcoming, 2022). Autoethnographic
exploration of the impacts of cultural and gender conventions that frame childhood. In Y.
Xu, D. Bhana, & V. Adriany (Eds.), Gendered and sexual norms in global South early
childhood education: Understanding normative discourses in post-colonial contexts.
Routledge.
Le, N. H. G., Nguyen, M. T., Ha, T. A., & Tran, V. (forthcoming, 2022). Writing
collaborative autoethnographic stories to understand Vietnamese children’s gendered
toys. In Y. Xu, D. Bhana, & V. Adriany (Eds.), Gendered and sexual norms in global
South early childhood education: Understanding normative discourses in post-colonial
contexts. Routledge.
Sen, A. P., Huang, M., & Le, N. H. G. (forthcoming, 2022). A closer look at the
experiences of international graduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic:
Connections to wellbeing. In S. O. Ratkovic, M. Bajovic, A. P. Sen, V. Woloshyn, & M.
Savage (Eds.), Supporting student and faculty wellbeing in graduate education:
Teaching, learning, policy, and praxis. Routledge.
Dong, H., Nguyen, N., Nguyen, T., Le, N. H. G., & Trinh, E. (forthcoming, 2022). The
wisdom of Buddha. In B. Geier, A. E. B. Knox, A. Osanloo, & R. L. G. Mitchell (Eds.),
The Palgrave handbook of educational thinkers. Palgrave.
Pham, X. T., Le, X., Tran, C., & Le, N. H. G. (forthcoming, 2022). Analyzing the
concept of presence in online learning environments through narratives of students: A
collaborative autoethnography study. In P. Seitz, & L. Hill (Eds.), Student assessment for
the online learning platform: A Canadian perspective. Routledge.
Pham, M. H., & Le, N. H. G. (forthcoming, 2022). Confucianism, Buddhism, and
Taoism in teaching and learning in Vietnam. In M. T. Winn, & L. T. Winn (Eds.), The
Bloomsbury encyclopedia of social justice in education. Bloomsbury.
Le, N. H. G., Vu, H. L., & Dong, H. B. (forthcoming, 2022). “She is not a normal teacher
of English”: Photovoice as a decolonizing method to study queer teacher identity in
Vietnam’s English language teaching. In A. Sahlane & R. Pritchard (Eds.), Critical
intercultural literacy and international language education. Springer.
Tran, V., Le, N. H. G., & Thuy, T. L. (2022). Impacts of international education shifts
through transnation stories of three Vietnamese doctoral students. In A. W. Wiseman
(Ed.), Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2021 Vol 42A, 93105. Emerald Publishing House.
Trinh, E., Le, N. H. G., Dong, H. B., Tran, T., & Tran, V. (2022). Memory rewriting as a
method of inquiry: When returning becomes collective healing. Qualitative
Report, 27(3). https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2022.5245
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Le, N. H. G., Tran, V. H., & Le, T. L. (2021). Combining photography and
duoethnography for creating a trioethnography approach to reflect upon educational
issues amidst the COVID-19 global pandemic. International Journal of Qualitative
Methods, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069211031127
Le, T. T., Tran, H. V., & Le. N. H. G. (2021). Pride and prejudice: An intersectional look
at graduate employability of transgender and queer international students. Journal of
Comparative and International Higher Education, 12(61), 152-160. DOI:
10.32674/jcihe.v12i6S1.3059
Nguyen, M. T., & Le, N. H. G. (2021). The influence of COVID-19 stress on
psychological well-being among Vietnamese adults: The role of self-compassion and
gratitude. Journal of Traumatology. https://doi.org/10.1037/trm0000295
Quang, A. M. T., Van Pham, M., Mai, T. T., Le, G. N. H., & Song, G. A. N. (2021).
Self-compassion and students' well-being among Vietnamese students: Chain mediation
effect of narcissism and anxiety. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior
Therapy, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10942-021-00431-1
Le, N. H. G. (2021). Living a queer life in Vietnam. In F. Blaikie (Ed.), Global
perspectives on youth and young adults and their visual and cultural identity constructs:
Situated, embodied, and performed ways of being, engaging, and belonging (pp. 213227). Routledge.
Le, G., Blaikie, F., & Tran, V. (2020). To know, to love and to heal: Photostory and duoethnography as approaches to enhancing social justice and self-actualization in high
school classrooms. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 18(1),
53-54.
Le, N. H. G., Hsiao, C. T., & Heo, Y. (2020). Trans-cultural journeys of East-Asian
educator: The impact of the three teachings. International Journal of Cross-disciplinary
Subjects in Education, 11(1), 4201-4210. doi:10.20533/ijcdse.2042.6364.2020.0513
Le, N. H. G., Bui, T., & Latremouille, J. (2020). Contemplative arts-based practices in
education for social and ecological justice: Weaving our transcultural dialogues, in H.
Mreiwed, M. R. Carter, & C. Mitchell (Eds.), Art as an agent for social change (pp. 157166). Brill/Sense.
Le, N. H. G. (2019). Reflection on education equity in Vietnam: Teachers’ and students’
voices in an English tourism program. Special Issue in Transitions: Journal of Transient
Migration, 3(2), 145-155. doi:10.1386/tjtm_00004_1
Manuscripts Under Review
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Le, N . H. G., & Vu, H. L. Exploring the body image of Vietnamese gay men through
collaborative autoethnography and digital art journaling. Journal of Gender Studies.
Vu, H. L., & Le, N. H. G. Men look ‘different’ in a gender-binary Vietnam. Journal of
Visual Culture and Gender.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
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Nguyen, T. T. M., Le, N. H. G., & Tran, C. (2022, July 14-15). The representation of
gender sexual minority groups in Vietnam’s ELT textbooks: A critical pedagogy
perspective [Paper session]. Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Conference, The Open
University, UK, July 14-15, 2022.
Trinh, E., Le, G., Dong, H. B., Tran, T., & Tran, V. (2022, April 21-26). Memory
rewriting as a method of inquiry: When returning becomes collective healing [Rountable
Session]. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, San
Diego, CA, USA.
Le, N . H. G., & Vu, H. L. (2021, August 24-27). Exploring the body image of
Vietnamese gay men through collaborative autoethnography and digital art journaling
[Paper session]. The 12th Engaging wth Vietnam Conference, Kyoto, Japan (Virtual),
August 24-27, 2021.
Blaikie, F., Le, N. H. G., Ivashkevich, O., & Tombro, M. (2021). Drawing on the
aesthetics of place, space, social media, visual and material culture as ways of knowing
and being in the world [Panel presentation]. Arts Education Research Institute (Virtual).
Teachers’ College, Columbia University, USA, September 24-October 2, 2021.
Le, N. H. G., Tran, H. V., & Le, T. T. (2021, April 8-12). Educational upheavals amid
the COVID-19 pandemic through a duoethnographic lens of Asian emerging educators
[Paper Session]. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting
(Virtual). Orlando, USA, April 8-12, 2021.
Le, N. H. G., & Tran, H. V. (2021, April 8-12). Queer teacher identity in Vietnamese
English language teaching for gender and sexual minority learners [Rountable Session].
American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting (Virtual). Orlanda,
USA, April 8-12, 2021.
Blaikie, F., & Le, N. H. G. (2020, May 31-June 2). To know, to love, and to heal: PhotoStory and cross-cultural experiences of gender performances in schools [Roundtable
session]. Canadian Society for Studies in Education Western University, London, ON,
May 31-June 2. (Conference canceled due to Covid-19)
Le, N. H. G., & Blaikie, F. (2020, June 15-18). GBTQ youth and gender/sexual
hegemony in Vietnam: Familial shame and possibilities for porous gender and sexual
identities [Oral Presentation]. Gender and Education Conference University of Calgary,
June 15-18. (Conference canceled due to Covid-19)
Le, N. H. G. (2020, April 17-21). “It’s time for us to look back”: Narratives of three
Asian educators [Roundtable Session]. American Educational Research Association
(AERA) Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA, USA, April 17-21. (Conference canceled
due to Covid-19)
Le, N. H. G. (2020, April 17-21). Autonomy in the centralized education: A heuristic
method with poetry-integrated data interpretation approach [Roundtable Session].
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American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting San Francisco,
CA, USA, April 17-21. (Conference canceled due to Covid-19)
Le, N. H. G., Hsiao, C. and Heo, Y. (2019, June 24-27). Educator identity development
on the trans-cultural journeys [Oral Presentation]. 2019 Canadian International
Conference on Education (CICE) University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada,
June 24-27.
Le, N. H. G. (2018, November 20-22). Questioning the role of social justice for
education in Asia [Oral Presentation]. 46th Annual Oceania Comparative and
International Education Society Conference, Victoria University of Wellington, New
Zealand, November 20-22.
Le, N. H. G. (2016). Self-videotaping to the teaching of pronunciation. 2016 Asia TEFL
Proceedings: Connecting Professionally on ELT in Asia: Crossing the Bridge to
Excellence. Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia.
Le, N. H. G. (2015). “Using mobile tablets to the teaching of English pronunciation in
an international language center” [Paper presentation] 2nd International VietTESOL
Conference, Hanoi University of Education, Hanoi, Vietnam, November 27, 2015.
ANALYTICS OF LE’S SCHOLARSHIP
Citation
h-index & i10-index
Google Scholar
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Research Gate
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Research Gate Reads
9,000
SERVICE AND MENTORSHIP
Reviewer
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Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education
International Journal of Qualitative Methods
Journal of Homosexuality
Higher Education Research & Development
Qualitative Report
Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education
Mentoring
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Long Hoang Vu
2021 – 2022
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Le, N . H. G., & Vu, H. L. (under review). Exploring the body image of Vietnamese gay
men through collaborative autoethnography and digital art journaling. Journal of Gender
Studies.
Xuan Tan Pham, Xuan Le & Chi Tran
2022
Pham, X. T., Le, X., Tran, C., & Le, N. H. G. (proposal accepted). Analyzing the concept
of presence in online learning environments through narratives of students: A
collaborative autoethnography study. In P. Seitz, & L. Hill (Eds.), Student assessment for
the online learning platform: A Canadian perspective. Springer.
Thi Phuong Lien Le, Nguyet Anh Le, Xuan Le, Ngo Thuy, Ly Que
2021-2022
Le, T. P. L., Le, N. A., Le, X., Ngo, T., Que, L., & Nguyen, T. (2022). A
trioethnographic approach to reflect Vietnamese education during COVID-19. The
Journal of the Pacific Circle Consortium for Education, 22(1), 7-22.
http://www.pacificcircleconsortium.org/uploads/1/1/9/5/119542233/pae_33_1__final_22.
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Vuong Tran & Thuy Trang Le
2021
Le, T. T., Tran, H. V., & Le. N. H. G. (2021). Pride and prejudice: An intersectional look
at graduate employability of transgender and queer international students. Journal of
Comparative and International Higher Education, 12(61), 152-160. DOI:
10.32674/jcihe.v12i6S1.3059
Ha Dong & Long Hoang Vu
2022
Le, N. H. G., Vu, H. L., & Dong, H. B. (forthcoming, 2022). “She is not a normal teacher
of English”: Photovoice as a decolonizing method to study queer teacher identity in
Vietnam’s English language teaching. In A. Sahlane & R. Pritchard (Eds.), Critical
intercultural literacy and international language education. Springer.
Ha Dong, Tuan Son Vo, Long Hoang Vu & Trinh Bui
2021-2022
Dong, H., Vo, T. S., Vu, H. L., & Bui, T. (2022). The #StopAsianHate movement:
Deconstructing Asian hate through digital visual approach and letter writing. In H.
Mreiwed, M. R. Carter, & S. Hashem, & C. Blake-Amarante (Eds.), Looking back to look
forward: Making connections in and through arts-based educational research. Springer.
Ha Dong, Nguyet Nguyen & Thinh Nguyen
2022
Dong, H., Nguyen, N., Nguyen, T., Le, N. H. G., & Trinh, E. (forthcoming, 2022). The
wisdom of Buddha. In B. Geier, A. E. B. Knox, A. Osanloo, & R. L. G. Mitchell (Eds.),
The Palgrave handbook of educational thinkers. Palgrave.
Membership at Professional Organizations
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American Educational Research Association (AERA) (Division K-Teaching and Teacher
Education)
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Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) (The Canadian Committee of
Graduate Students in Education)
Viet TESOL
Engaging with Vietnam (founded by Professor Phan Le Ha & Professor Liam C Kelly)
LEADERSHIP AND VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
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President and Founder
2021 – Present
Vietnamese Humanities and Social Sciences Association
Student Representative
2020 – 2021
Arts Researchers & Teachers Society (ARTS SIG)
Publication Team Member
2019 – 2020
Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies
Volunteer ESL Tutor
2018 – 2019
ESL Department, Thompson Rivers University
Orientation Leader
2018
Learning Strategist-orientation & Transition Co-op, Thompson Rivers University
Survey Collector
2010
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
SKILLS AND LANGUAGES
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Microsolf Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Publisher)
Qualitative analysis tool: NVIVO
Vietnamese (native), English (fluent)
REFERENCES
Dr. Fiona Blaikie (PhD Supervisor)
Professor, Visual Arts Education
Department of Educational Studies, Faculty of Education
Brock University
Phone: 905 688 5550 x 4631
Email: fblaikie@brocku.ca
Dr. Leanne Taylor (PhD Committee Member)
Associate Professor, Education
Editor-in chief, Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education
Department of Educational Studies, Faculty of Education
Brock University
Phone: 905 688 5550 x 4965
Email: ltaylor3@brocku.ca
Dr. Julian Kitchen (PhD Committee Member)
Professor, Sociology of Gender and Education
Faculty of Education
Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada
Phone: +905 547 3555 x3633
Email: jkitchen@brocku.ca