Pim Puapanichya

Profile

PhD candidate at the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick

Contact:

pim.puapanichya@warwick.ac.uk

Funding: Chancellor's International Scholarship

Supervisors:

Dr. Caitlin Vandertop

Dr. Ross G Forman

Research

Working Title: Twisting Against the Tides: Disruption and Agency in Mangrove Ecologies from South Asia to the Indo-Pacific 

My thesis interrogates intertidal spaces and mangrove ecologies in postcolonial ecocritical literature in English. Focusing on contemporary literature from Asia-Pacific and Oceania, I theorise through the materiality of mangroves microbiomes to understand the disruption of linear temporality, spatiality and discourses of colonial historicity. Rooted between land and sea, the project understands mangroves as archives of history that negotiate the aqueous, fluid and shifting geographies of waterborne spaces.

Research Interests

Environmental and Blue Humanities, Postcolonial Ecocriticism, Hydrocriticism, Indigenous Studies.

Education

BA Cultural Studies, Chulalongkorn University

MA Film and Literature, University of York