Thy Phu

Biographic Data

ID232474
NAMEThy Phu
GIVEN NAMESThy
FAMILY NAMEPhu
SIGNATUREPHU T
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Toronto
ORCID0000-0003-3512-5172
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS18
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Cold War Visual Legacies

    Thy Phu, Erina Duganne et al.ARTICLEJournal of War and Culture Studies2025References: 1

    Introduction to the special issue 'Cold War Visual Legacies'. This special issue explores the enduring visual legacies of the Cold War, an era of stark ideological division and intense geopolitical struggle, whose reverberations continue to shape contemporary crises. While debates persist on whether the Cold War officially ended with the dissolution of the USSR, recent global events – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the resurgence of militarism, an…

  • Digital Restoration and Historical Renovation in Vietnam

    Open AccessThy PhuARTICLEThe American Historical Review2025

  • Images at War

    Open AccessThy PhuARTICLETrans Asia Photography2023

    This introduction contends that debates on militarized visual cultures need to consider the active role of images in shaping perspectives on war and in mediating memories of its aftermaths in and across Asia. Doing so entails taking account of quotidian experiences of war as well as reckoning with the limits of archives

  • Cold War Camera

    Thy Phu, Erina Duganne et al.EDITORBOOKCold War Camera2022

    Cold War Camera explores the visual mediation of the Cold War and illuminates photography’s role in shaping the ways it was prosecuted and experienced. The contributors show how the camera stretched the parameters of the Cold War beyond dominant East-West and US-USSR binaries and highlight the significance of photography from across the global South. Among other topics, the contributors examine the production and circulation of the iconic figure …

  • “Trans”

    Open AccessThy PhuARTICLETrans Asia Photography2021

  • Warring Visions

    Open AccessThy PhuCHAPTERWarring Visions2021

  • Warring Visions

    Open AccessThy PhuBOOKWarring Visions2021

  • Early Photography in Vietnam

    Open AccessThy PhuARTICLETrans Asia Photography2020

  • Refugee Compassion and the Politics of Embodied Storytelling

    Vinh Nguyen, Thy Phu et al.ARTICLEa/b Auto/Biography Studies2018

    Y-Dang Troeung: For many who experienced it directly, the Southeast Asian refugee crisis that unfolded throughout the second half of the twentieth century carries not only the legacy of loss, but a

  • The Cultural Politics of Aspiration

    Open AccessThy Phu, Elspeth H BrownARTICLEJournal of Visual Culture2018Cited by: 12References: 4

    This article describes the relationship between family photography, oral history, and feeling. The authors explore questions about affect and family photography in relationship to black, queer relationality and to Asian, diasporic subjectivities. They argue that the affective modality of family photography for marginalized subjects is that of 'mixed feelings', which they analyze through a focus on 'aspiration' as central to the visual and affecti…

  • The Family Camera Network

    Thy Phu, Elspeth H Brown et al.ARTICLEPhotography and Culture2017Cited by: 5References: 16

    Despite increasing interest in visual studies, diaspora studies, and oral history, critics have not fully accounted for the complexity of family photography. The Family Camera is a collaborative research project that collects domestic images and oral histories about them as a means of tracing new histories of migration. This article describes our work in collecting both family photographs and oral histories about them, with a specific focus on re…

  • Cold War visual alliances

    Bassnett, Sarah Bassnett et al.ARTICLEVisual Studies2015

  • Feeling Photography

    Elspeth H Brown, Thy PhuEDITORBOOKFeeling Photography2014

  • The Spaces of Human Confinement

    Thy PhuARTICLEJournal of Asian American Studies2008Cited by: 1

    The Spaces of Human ConfinementManzanar Photography and Landscape Ideology Thy Phu (bio) I. "There Goes a Thing" In his diary entry for April 30, 1942, Charles Kikuchi offers a personal response to the official documentation of his experiences as one of the tens of thousands of Japanese Americans ordered to evacuate the Pacific Coastal mainland, an area that had recently been declared a military zone under Executive Order 9066. "Oh, oh, there goe…