Thy Phu is a Professor of Media Studies at the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media at UTSC. Before joining the University of Toronto, she was based at Western University, where she taught cultural studies, American Studies, and critical theory. She has also held visiting positions at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore and Yale University. Her digital humanities research and public humanities practice lies at the intersections of visual studies, photography theory, and digital archives, with a focus on empire, race, and migration. She is author and co-editor of five books: Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture; Feeling Photography; Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada; Warring Visions: Vietnam and Photography (forthcoming in December 2021), and Cold War Camera (forthcoming Spring 2022). She is also Director The Family Camera Network, a collaborative research project that engages local communities in the building of an antiracist public archive through the collection and preservation of family photographs and their stories. In 2017, she was elected as member of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists at the Royal Society of Canada. She is co-founder of the research group Critical Refugee Studies Network of Canada and co-editor of the peer-reviewed, open-access journal, Trans Asia Photography.
-
Research
-
Specialization
-
Publications
-
Course Titles
-
In the News
