Anne Cong-Huyen is the instructor of "Ethnic Los Angeles," and a recent LA migrant herself. She is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities and Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include the literature and media of migration and labor, Asian American studies, globalization and neoliberalism, postcolonial studies, and transnationalism. She is especially invested in the ways gender, race, class, and nationality affect how the temporary and the precarious is experienced.

Her work appears in The Journal of e-Media Studies, and is forthcoming in Humanities and the Digital (MIT Press). She has previously published on comics in the Asian American literature class. She is also active as a founding member of the #transformDH collective which seeks to incorporate critical cultural studies into diverse digital humanities activities.