Charles Waugh

Biography

Charles Waugh is the co-translator and co-editor of four books of of Vietnamese fiction: No Man River (Penguin Random House SEA, 2025), The Termite Queen (Penguin Random House SEA, 2023), Wild Mustard (Curbstone, 2017) and Family of Fallen Leaves (Georgia UP, 2010). His stories, essays, and critical academic work center on Vietnam's culture and environment, Americans' experiences there, and American culture’s connections to the environment more broadly. In 2026, his story, “A way way away,” was published in Torrey House Books’ response to the crisis of Great Salt Lake, Once and Future Lake.

Professor Charles directs fiction theses and serves on creative theses of all genres. He is also available to serve on literature and culture theses that involve translation, ecocriticism, war literature and films, peace studies, and contemporary fiction.