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Originally trained as a musical composer, who received her two masters and Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Trinh T. Minh-ha is a world-reknowned independent filmmaker and feminist, post-colonial theorist. She teaches courses that focus on women's work as related to cultural politics, post-coloniality, contemporary critical theory and the arts. 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.
Aside from the eight books she has published, her work also includes two large-scale multimedia installations and six feature-length films that have been honored in twenty seven retrospectives around the world: Reassemblage (1982), Naked Spaces (1985), Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989), Shoot for the Contents (1991), A Tale of Love (1996), The Fourth Dimension (2001), and Night Passage (2004) .
Selected Publications
The Digital Film Event (Routledge, 2005)
Cinema Interval (Routledge, 1999)
Drawn from African Dwellings, in collaboration with Jean-Paul Bourdier (Indiana University Press, 1996)
Framer Framed (Routledge, 1992)
When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender, and Cultural Politics (Routledge, 1991)
Out There: Marginalisation in Contemporary Culture, ed. With Cornel West, R. Ferguson, M. Gever (New Museum of Contemporary Art and MIT Press, 1990)
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (Indiana University Press, 1989)
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