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 and Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow. She works in Postcolonial/World Literature, Digital Humanities, and Cultural Policy. Her work is published with MLQ, Medical Humanities and the Studies in World Literature series. Her current project uses network models to examine how literatures and authors from the Global South are “discovered” within the global literary supply chain. She is contracted with UNESCO to produce a report on the book industry in Africa. She started and co-chairs the Stanford Humanities Center workshop, "Colonialism, Post-, and Anti- in the Digital Age" (CPADA). She also trains and competes in Muay Thai.