Carmen Thong
carmenthong.bsky.social
Carmen Thong
@carmenthong.bsky.social
PhD in English, MA in Public Policy @ Stanford || Postcolonial/World Literature, Computational Literary Studies, Contemporary Book Studies

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I am a part of the editorial team for UNESCO's report on The African Book Industry and it has just been published online today!!

Check it out here: unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...
June 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
The joys and dangers of activist-DH with @roopikarisam.bsky.social's lecture at King's College London.
May 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The workshop I am running will have a session this Thursday, Feb 20 at 5.30-7pm (PST) on Zoom with Dr Kelly Baker Josephs, speaking on "Caribbean Pasts in the Digital Present". RSVP here so that I can send you the link! : forms.gle/VtRJZmCgvFgF...
February 20, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I do have the option! I just need to make myself do it...
January 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Congratulations to Annie Lamar and the new Low Resource Languages (LOREL) lab at UCSB!

(Please ignore the thumb in the shot.)
January 19, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Come join my fellow panelists and I for our ACLA seminar, "Policy and Global Development in Postcolonial Literature"!

I will present on the ✨ riveting ✨ topic of import tariffs (actually not being sarcastic). #ACLA #ACLA2024 #postcolonial
March 14, 2024 at 6:36 AM
The workshop I co-organize at the Stanford Humanities Center-CPADA/Colonialism, Post, and Anti in the Digital Age-will be holding our next event on March 12th, 5.30-7pm PST. It will be a hybrid event.

RSVP at bit.ly/CPADA !
March 6, 2024 at 10:21 PM
On the reading docket these days:
March 6, 2024 at 10:18 PM
When a research contact shares the same rare last name as you... Your email has been warmed by the ancestors.
March 2, 2024 at 8:19 AM
Finally got my Selenium scraper to work on a bookstore's online catalogue, but now I am banned from Kinokuniya Malaysia 🥲.
February 29, 2024 at 6:44 PM