Chi P. Pham is a Tenured Researcher at the Institute of Literature, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi. She received her first Ph.D. degree in Literary Theory in Vietnam and her second Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature in University of California, Riverside (USA). She is the secretary of the Association for the Study of Literature and Ecology in ASEAN (ASLE-ASEAN). Her publications include, Aesthetic Experience in Ramayana Epic (Hanoi National University Press, 2015); Literature and Nation-building in Vietnam: The Invisibilization of the Indians (Routledge, 2021). She is also the co-editor of Reading South Vietnam’s Writers: The Reception of Western Thought in Journalism and Literature (Springer Nature, 2023). She has edited four collections of Indian and South East Asian folktales in Vietnamese translation, and has co-edited a collection of Vietnamese environmental short stories in English translation entitled Revenge of Gaia: Contemporary Vietnamese Ecofiction with Chitra Sankaran (Penguin Random House, 2021). She has also co-edited Ecologies in Southeast Asian Literatures: Histories, Myths and Societies with Chitra Sankaran and Gurpreet Kaur (Vernon Press, 2019) and The Vietnamese Literature: Readings from the Inside (special issue in SUVANNABHUMI Multi-disciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 14.1, 2022) with Uma Jayaraman. Her latest publications in the field of Environmental Humanities include “Political Orientation in Ecocriticism: National Allegory in Vietnamese Ecofiction by Tr?n Duy Phiên.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 24.5 (2022) and Environment and Narrative in Vietnam(co-edited with Ursula K. Heise, co-author of one chapter, and single author of another chapter) contracted for publication by Palgrave Macmillan.
