Scholar Profile

Khai Tran

Higher Education

Biography

Khai Tran was the class Valedictorian of Franklin High School in Los Angeles. He speaks four languages and as a high school student, created an online class that helps English speakers learn Norwegian, reaching more than 15,000 learners.

Khai is a graduate of Yale College, where he studied Linguistic Anthropology and Viking & Medieval Norse Studies. His sociolinguistic research concentrated on the political and cultural significance of the Catalan language in the new Catalonia and Catalan national identity. His Norse Studies focuses on the attitude towards death and the perception of the afterlife in Old Norse myth, saga, and poetry.

Khai spent the summer of 2018 at Pembroke College (University of Cambridge) conducting research in Old Norse-Icelandic literature. He was on a Yale research team on the mysterious Voynich manuscript, and is working towards publishing his translation of contemporary Vietnamese poetry. He currently works as an Academic Support Coordinator at Wesleyan University after serving as a Teacher at Capital Prep Harbor.

High school:  Franklin High School

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