Mimi Khúc

Mimi Khúc is a writer and scholar working at the intersection of Asian American, gender, and disability studies. Her work addresses decolonizing Asian American mental health and decolonizing mental health systems. She is the author of dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss (Duke University Press, 2024). She is the managing editor of the Asian American Literary Review and teaches at Georgetown University where she was Scholar/Artist/Activist in Residence in Disability Studies 2019-2021. She is married to Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis and they have a daughter, Elia, and two sons.

Education and career She earned her BA in Sociology & Religious Studies from the University of Maryland and an MA (2006) and PhD (2013) in Religious Studies from the University of California Santa Barbara.

Khúc worked at the University of Maryland from 2013 to 2017 as a lecturer in the Asian American Studies department.

Publications

Books

Book Chapters

Articles

Artistic projects

Book art

Khúc, Mimi (2016). Open in Emergency.

Word art

Khúc, Mimi (2016). Asian American Tarot. Davis, Lawrence-Minh Bùi; Khúc, Mimi (2019). The Book of Curses.