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Thy Phu is a Professor in the Department of English and Writing Studies at Western University's Faculty of Arts and Humanities. She holds a PhD from UC Berkeley (2003), an MA (1998), and BA (1997) from McMaster University. Her institutional affiliations include Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute (National University of Singapore) and Visiting Bicentennial Associate Professor of Canadian Studies at Yale University. She is currently a Member of the College of New Scholars at the Royal Society of Canada.
Her research spans visual studies, critical race theory, and transpacific critique. Key projects include the SSHRC-funded Family Camera Network (familycameranetwork.org), which preserves diasporic photo histories, and collaborative works like States of Refuge with Vinh Nguyen. Her scholarship interrogates racialized citizenship, war imagery, and refugee narratives through decolonial frameworks.
Analysis of her publications reveals consistent focus on visual archives as sites of political struggle, particularly examining Asian American and Vietnamese diasporic experiences. Her work bridges affect theory, critical race studies, and transnational history, demonstrating how photographs mediate citizenship claims and trauma across geopolitical boundaries.
- SSHRC Insight, Connection, and Partnership Development Grants
- Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto)
- Royal Society of Canada College Membership
- Yale University Visiting Professorship
As Principal Investigator for the Family Camera Network, she leads a multi-institutional team digitizing community photo collections to explore migration narratives. Her current projects include the monograph Warring Visions and collaborations examining humanitarian exceptionalism in Canadian refugee policy. She serves on editorial boards for major journals in visual culture and American studies.
