Dr. Kevin LeAssociate Professor | Faculty of Education & Social Work
Email: kle@tru.ca
Homepage URL: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Giang-Nguyen-Hoang-Le
Interests
My Vietnamese name is Le Nguyen Hoang Giang. I am a proud queer feminist scholar and a Southeast Asian
descendant mindfully living and working on the land of the Secwepemc, within Secwepemc'ulucw, the
traditional and unceded territory of the Secwepemc People.
I started my journey to Canada back in 2017 as an M.Ed. student at TRU and left for PhD in Education
Studies at Brock University in 2019. I have returned to TRU to teach in the Graduate Programs in
Education since 2023. My scholarship and research agenda revolves around queer studies, feminist
pedagogy, and multimodal visual arts-based approaches to education. I offer co-supervision to students
who are drawn to research projects and have interests that align with my expertise areas.
Research Interests
Gender diversity and sexual orientations
Critical queer studies in education
Feminist pedagogy
Decolonization of education and pedagogy
Community-based research
Arts-based and arts-informed approaches to education
Multimodality and methods of inquiry
Education
PhD in Education, Brock University
Postdoc, UBC School of Nursing
Master of Education, Thompson Rivers University
MA in TESOL, Victoria University, Australia
B.Ed., Nha Trang University, Viet Nam
Publications
Books (2 edited collections):
Le, N. H. G., Blaikie, F., Trinh, E., & Vu, H. L. (Eds.) (2026). Genders and Sexualities in Contemporary
Vietnam Education: Recent Perspectives, Issues, and Trends. Routledge Book Series, Critical Studies in
Gender and Sexuality in Education. Routledge.
Phan, N. Q. A., & Le, N. H. G. (Eds.) (under contract). Contemplative Arts-Based Educational
Research: Voices and Practices from the Global South. Springer Book Series, Arts-Based Educational
Research.
Guest Edited Volumes (2 special issues):
Trinh, E., Le, N. H. G., & Blaikie, F. (2024-present). Futuring the Global South Studies: Histories,
Philosophies, and Policies in Education. Journal of Policy Futures in Education.
Trinh, E., Le, N. H. G., & Howe, E. (2024-present). (Dis)entanglements of Curriculum, Teaching and
Learning in Global South. European Journal of Education: Research, Development and Policy.
Journal Articles (Recently selected):
Nguyen, T. T., Le, N. H. G., Van, K. P., & Le, V. A. (2026). A multi-ethnography: Reflections on the
education and training of graduate studies in Vietnam. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in
Education, 39(1), 1-18.
Le, N. H. G., Nguyen, M. T., Ha, T. A., & Tran, V. (2026). Writing collaborative autoethnographic
stories to understand Vietnamese children's gendered toys. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 34(3),
769-788.
Le. N. H. G., Nguyen, T. T., & Pham, T. X. (2026). A collaborative autoethnography on Vietnamese English
language educators' professional development and learning in language teacher associations. Innovation
in Language Learning and Teaching, 20(1), 79-97.
Nguyen, M. T., Tran, M. A. Q, & Le, N. H. G. (2023). Psychometric validation of the brief resilience
scale in the sample of Vietnamese university students. Journal of College Student Psychotherapy. DOI:
10.1080/87568225.2023.2231348
Blaikie, F., Le, N. H. G., & Strachan, S. (2023). 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), 65-73.
Chapters in Books:
Nguyen, T. T. M., Le, N. H. G., & Tran, C. (2024). 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 Southeast Asia Series. Universiti Sains Malaysia
Press.
Pham, X. T., Le, X., Tran, C., & Le, N. H. G. (2024). 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
(pp. 145-163). Routledge.
Le, N. H. G., Blaikie, F., & Vu, H. L. (2024). 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 (pp. 165-181). Routledge.
Le, N. H. G., Vu, H. L., & Dong, H. B. (2023). "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 (pp. 443-462). Springer.
Employment History
2023 - Now: Teaching & co-supervising M.Ed. students in the Graduate Programs in Education, School
of Education, TRU
2023 - 2024: Postdoctoral Researcher
School of Nursing, University of British Columbia
2019 - 2022: Course Instructor & Teaching Assistant
Faculty of Education, Brock University
2018 - 2019: Graduate Teaching Assistant
School of Education, Thompson Rivers University
2015 - 2016: Lecturer of English Language Teaching
Faculty of Foreign Languages, Khanh Hoa University, Vietnam
2012 - 2014: High School Teacher of English
Ly Tu Trong High School, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa, Vietnam
Courses Taught
EDUC 5040: Diversity: Constructing Social Realities
EDUC 5990: ST-Graduate Writing
EDUC 5990: ST-Inquiry across the Curriculum
EDUC 5030: Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
EDUC 5280: Capstone Seminar
EDUC 5180: Research Project
Professional Affiliations
Canada Society for the Study of Education (CSSE, Arts SIG, Queer in education & culture SIG)
American Educational Research Association (AERA, Queer studies SIG)
International Association for Autoethnography & Narrative Inquiry
Gender and Education Association
Global South Collective
