Thy Phu
{{Short description|Canadian academic}}
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,{{Cite web |date=2019 |title=Thy Phu CV |url=https://www.uwo.ca/english/people/cvs/PhuCV2019.pdf}} and a PhD from the University of California Berkeley.
She undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto.{{Cite web |title=Thy Phu {{!}} Department of Arts, Culture and Media |url=https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/thy-phu |access-date=2022-04-08 |website=www.utsc.utoronto.ca}}
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.{{Cite web |title=Distinguished Professors – Division of the Vice-President & Provost |url=https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/distinguished-professors/ |access-date=2022-04-08 |language=en}}
She was previously faculty at Western University and taught at the National University of Singapore as well as Yale University.{{Cite web |title=Thy Phu - Thy Phu - Faculty of Information (iSchool) {{!}} University of Toronto |url=https://ischool.utoronto.ca/profile/thy-phu/ |access-date=2022-04-08 |language=en-CA}}
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:
- Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture, 2011, Temple University Press {{ISBN|978-1439907214}} (author)Pegler-Gordon A. Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture. Thy Phu. January 2014. doi:10.1093/melus/mlu008
- 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){{Cite web |title=British Empire, Settler Colonialism, and Humanitarian Exceptionalism: Critical Refugee Studies in the Canadian Context |url=https://www.canlit.ca/ |access-date=2022-04-08 |website=Canadian Literature |language=en-US}}
- Warring Visions: Vietnam and Photography, 2022, Duke University Press {{ISBN|978-1478010753}} (author){{Cite web |title=Photography and Vietnam: A New Take |url=https://www.canlit.ca/ |access-date=2022-04-08 |website=Canadian Literature |language=en-US}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.thyphu.org/ Official website]
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Category:McMaster University alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Category:21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers
Category:21st-century Canadian women writers
Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni