Carmen Thong
@carmenthong
Presidential Assistant Professor, Southeast Asian Studies @ National University of Singapore PhD in English, MA in Public Policy @ Stanford || Postcolonial/World Literature, Computational Literary Studies, Contemporary Book Studies carmenthong.com
Found in Kinokuniya Singapore under "Highlights" at the front of the store. @roopikarisam.bsky.social
Inspired by @walshbr.bsky.social's live posting, I'll be skeeting "book reactions" of all the (mostly) DH reading I'll be doing this fall. Starting with the very hot Data Empire by @roopikarisam.bsky.social : [Reactions will be posted as replies.]
Upon seeing this slide, I unfortunately could not keep the image below out of my mind:
What I received from the #DH2026 keynote today is that the humanities should resist turning from: L - P - L' (or P - L - P' in the ideal world I suppose) To: L - L' (L = Learning; P = Practice) Because if all we do is the latter, we will be screwed in the age of AI.
Glad to see contemporary book studies continuing to feature in DH ✨ #DH2026
Much anticipated arrival of #dataempire by @roopikarisam.bsky.social ✨✨✨
There's something to being Asian drinking boba out In Real Life while reading the physical digital humanities issue of the Journal of Asian Studies.
Data-driven method to buy good cheap wines without knowing much about wines 🤌🏻. (Source: pudding.cool/2025/04/wine-animals/)
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...
The joys and dangers of activist-DH with @roopikarisam.bsky.social's lecture at King's College London.
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...
Congratulations to Annie Lamar and the new Low Resource Languages (LOREL) lab at UCSB! (Please ignore the thumb in the shot.)
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
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 !
When a research contact shares the same rare last name as you... Your email has been warmed by the ancestors.
Finally got my Selenium scraper to work on a bookstore's online catalogue, but now I am banned from Kinokuniya Malaysia 🥲.