Thy Phu Explained

Thy Phu is a Canadian author and academic who is a distinguished professor of race, diaspora and visual justice at the University of Toronto.

Education

Phu has a master's degree in English from McMaster University,[1] and a PhD from the University of California Berkeley.

She undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto.[2]

Career

Phu is a professor of media studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough, where she is also a distinguished professor of race, diaspora and visual justice.[3]

She was previously faculty at Western University and taught at the National University of Singapore as well as Yale University.[4]

She is the director of The Family Camera Network, a research project that supports local communities to create antiracist public archive photography. She co-founded the Critical Refugee Studies Network of Canada, and she is a co-editor of Trans Asia Photography journal.

She is an elected member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.

Selected publications

She has written and co-edited four books:

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2019 . Thy Phu CV .
  2. Web site: Thy Phu Department of Arts, Culture and Media . 2022-04-08 . www.utsc.utoronto.ca.
  3. Web site: Distinguished Professors – Division of the Vice-President & Provost . 2022-04-08 . en.
  4. Web site: Thy Phu - Thy Phu - Faculty of Information (iSchool) University of Toronto . 2022-04-08 . en-CA.
  5. Pegler-Gordon A. Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture. Thy Phu. January 2014. doi:10.1093/melus/mlu008
  6. Web site: British Empire, Settler Colonialism, and Humanitarian Exceptionalism: Critical Refugee Studies in the Canadian Context . 2022-04-08 . Canadian Literature . en-US.
  7. Web site: Photography and Vietnam: A New Take . 2022-04-08 . Canadian Literature . en-US.