Janit Feangfu
จณิษฐ์ เฟื่องฟู

Field of Study

Years of Stay at HYI

Sep 2006 to Jun 2009

University Affiliation (Current)

University Affiliation

Janit Feangfu is a Lecturer in Thai at the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. She was previously an Assistant Professor in the Department of Thai Language at the Faculty of Humanities, Chiang Mai University, Thailand.

Current Research Projects and Interests: Northeastern Thai Literature, Modernity, Gender Studies and Literature

Recent Publications

Feangfu, Janit. 2015. “Fun, Games and Gains” in Bangkok Unlicensed Guide: Thai (male)-Farang (female) Sexual Encounters in 1970s Semi-fiction. South East Asia Research. 23 (4), pp. 521-534.

Feangfu, Janit. 2014. “Orientalisation from Within and Consuming the Modern World: Rural-Urban Contact in Thai Popular Literature of the 1970s.” In Rachel Harrison (Ed.), Disturbing Conventions: Decentering Thai Literary Cultures (pp.111-135). Rowman & Littlefield International: London.

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