Humans and Other Animals

Chi P. Pham

Chi P. Pham is a Tenured Researcher at the Institute of Literature, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi. She holds two Ph.D. degrees: one in Literary Theory from Vietnam and another in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Riverside (USA). She serves as the secretary of the Association for the Study of Literature and Ecology in ASEAN (ASLE-ASEAN).

Her authored 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 a co-editor of:

• Reading South Vietnam’s Writers: The Reception of Western Thought in Journalism and Literature (Springer Nature, 2023)
• Revenge of Gaia: Contemporary Vietnamese Ecofiction (Penguin Random House, 2021)
• Ecologies in Southeast Asian Literatures: Histories, Myths and Societies (Vernon Press, 2019)
• The Vietnamese Literature: Readings from the Inside (special issue in SUVANNABHUMI Multi-disciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 14.1, 2022)

Additionally, she has edited four collections of Indian and South East Asian folktales in Vietnamese translation. Her recent publications in Environmental Humanities include “Political Orientation in Ecocriticism: National Allegory in Vietnamese Ecofiction by Trần Duy Phiên.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 24.5 (2022). She has also co-edited Environment and Narrative in Vietnam, contracted for publication by Palgrave Macmillan.

Chitra Sankaran

Chitra Sankaran (Ph.D. London) has held positions such as Acting Head of Department and Chair of Literature in the Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore. She is the Founding and Current President of the Association for the Study of Literature and Ecology in ASEAN (ASLE-ASEAN) and the Chief Editor of the Journal of Southeast Asian Ecocriticism (JSEAE).

Her publications include three monographs, ten edited volumes, and numerous chapters in books and research articles in international journals such as Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE), Journal of Commonwealth Literature, ARIEL, and Theatre Research International.

Her recent publications include:

• Women, Subalterns and Ecologies in South and Southeast Asian Women’s Fiction (University of Georgia Press, USA)
• Revenge of Gaia: Contemporary Ecofictions from Vietnam (Penguin Random House)

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