Carmen Thong

Carmen Thong is a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University, where she also obtained a MA in Public Policy. She is a Knight Hennessy scholar, Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow, and Mellon Dissertation Fellow. She works in Postcolonial Literature, Digital Humanities, and Literary Sociology. Her work is published with MLQ, Digital Humanities Quarterly, Medical Humanities and World Literature in Motion (Columbia UP: 2020). Her current project uses network models to examine how postcolonial novels are “discovered” within the global literary supply chain. She is also the co-editor and co-author of UNESCO's The African Book Industry report. She started and co-chaired the Stanford Humanities Center workshop, "Colonialism, Post-, and Anti- in the Digital Age" (CPADA), which is now a colloquy on Stanford Arcade. She trains and competes in Muay Thai.