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

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Phu has a master's degree in English from McMaster University,[1] and a PhD from the University of California Berkeley.[2]

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

Career

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Phu is a professor of media studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough,[3] where she is also a distinguished professor of race, diaspora and visual justice.[4]

She was previously faculty at Western University and taught at the National University of Singapore as well as Yale University.[3]

She is the director of The Family Camera Network, a research project that supports local communities to create antiracist public archive photography.[3] She co-founded the Critical Refugee Studies Network of Canada,[3] and she is a co-editor of Trans Asia Photography journal.[3]

She is an elected member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.[3]

Selected publications

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She has written and co-edited four books:

  • Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture, 2011, Temple University Press ISBN 978-1439907214 (author)[5]
  • Feeling Photography, 2014, Duke University Press ISBN 978-0822355410 (edited)
  • Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada, 2021, University of Toronto Press ISBN 978-1487508647 (edited)[6]
  • Warring Visions: Vietnam and Photography, 2022, Duke University Press ISBN 978-1478010753 (author)[7]

References

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