About MY RESEARCH

Academic bio

Linh S. Nguyễn (she/her) is a SSHRC and Canadian Centennial Scholarship-funded doctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Education, researching love as epistemology towards anti-imperialist ways of knowing/being. She engages with Black feminist, queer, and decolonial methodologies of spillage, embodiment, and emergence through multi-registered writing. Linh completed her H.B.A. in English, Writing & Rhetoric, and Creative Expression & Society at the University of Toronto and her MPhil in Arts, Creativity and Education at Cambridge.

Linh’s academic work has been shared at conferences in New York City, Vancouver, Cambridge, Rouen, Leuven, Salamanca and more. Her MPhil research was showcased as a digital arts exhibit and is currently on display at the University of Toronto. Please check the “Events” page for upcoming talks.

AFFILIATED RESEARCH GROUPS

PUBLICATIONS

Nguyễn, L. S. (2026). Learning in love: The generative nature of research in close relationships. In A. Bayley, Fieldnotes from the edges of higher arts education: Intra-active pedagogies for urgent times (pp. 177-195). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003534105-10

Nguyễn, L. S., & Russo, E. (2026). Presencing Echoes in the Archive: Material Voices Through Space and Time. Arts, 15(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts15010015

Nguyễn, L. S. (2022). Teaching Activist Thinking in Canadian Education: The limitations of play-based learning and radical potential of Indigenous land-based learning. Cambridge Educational Research e-Journal, 9, 138-153. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.90557