| 2025 | "Four Syllable Expressions in Vietnamese" in Essays |
| 2023 | Trinh Cong Son and Bob Dylan: Essays on War, Love, Songwriting, and Religion |
| 2019 | "Vietnamese Perspectives on the War in Vietnam" in Archives & Reprint Series |
| 2018 | "Ngô Kha, Vietnam’s Civil Wars, and the Need for Forgiveness" in Journal of Vietnamese Studies |
| 2016 | Võ Phiến and the Sadness of Exile |
| 2012 | "The curious memoirs of the Vietnamese composer Pham Duy" in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies |
| 2010 | "Lê Vân and Notions of Vietnamese Womanhood" in Journal of Vietnamese Studies |
| 2009 | "The Vietnamese Land Reform Program as Literary Theme" in Thirty Years After: New Essays on Vietnam War Literature, Film, and Art |
| 2007 | "The Trịnh Công Sơn Phenomenon" in Journal of Asian Studies |
| 2007 | "Death, Buddhism, and Existentialism in the Songs of Trịnh Công Sơn" in Journal of Vietnamese Studies |
| 2002 | "Nguyễn Minh Châu and Recent Developments in the Vietnamese Short Story" in Viet Nam War Generation Journal |
| 2000 | "The Collective and the Individual in Two Post-War Vietnamese Novels" in Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies |
| 1999 | "Phan Nhat Nam and the Battle of An Loc" in Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies |
| 1994 | "Pham Duy Ton: Journalist, Short Story Writer, Collector of Humorous Stories" in Viet Nam Forum |
| 1993 | "The Novel Emerges in Cochinchina" in Journal of Asian Studies |
| 1989 | "A Design For Native American Education" in Course Material |
| 1988 | "Ho Bieu Chanh and the Early Development of the Vietnamese Novel" in The Vietnam Forum |
| 1988 | "From Verse Narrative to Novel: The Development of Prose Fiction in Vietnam" in Journal of Asian Studies |
| 1985 | "Coupling as a Text-building, Myth-evoking Strategy in Vietnamese" in The Vietnam Forum |
| 1984 | "Humboldt State University's master's program in the teaching of writing" in Writing Program Administration |
