Professor Phu’s research and teaching focus on cultural studies, visual culture, Asian North American literature, critical race studies, and American studies. Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture (Temple University Press, 2012), her first book, explores the relationship between civility and citizenship. Feeling Photography, a collection of essays co-edited with Elspeth Brown, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. She is currently working on two related projects. The first, with Andrea Noble, is on the Cold War Camera, a collaborative exploration of the ways that photography mediates the global cold war. The second is a history of 20th-century Vietnamese photography. She also serves as editor of the Americas region for the interdisciplinary journal Photography and Culture.

Selected Publications

Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture (Temple University Press, 2012).

“Bigger at the Movies: Richard Wright’s International Travels and the Cinematic Projections of Native Son,” Black Camera 2, no. 1 (2010): 36-57.

“Horrifying Copies: Ringu, The Ring, and the Cultural Contexts of Copying,” Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance 3, no. 1 (2010): 43-58.

“For We Are You: Collaboration, Contradiction and Compromise in 12 Million Black Voices,” forthcoming in Callaloo.

Contact

Thy Phu
Associate Professor
English Department
Western University
University College, Room 173
London, ON N6A 5B7
tphu@uwo.ca
http://www.uwo.ca/english/facultyStaff/fulltime/phut.html