BIOGRAPHY

Boreth Ly is a writer and Assistant Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art and Visual Culture at the University of Utah. He was born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and was educated in Paris and the United States. He received his Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002. In 2004-2005 he was a Rockefeller Resident Fellow at the Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

•  Buddhist and Hindu art of South and Southeast Asia

•  Visual narrative and films of Southeast Asia and diasporas

•  Representations of the body, race, and sexuality

•  The politics of memory and trauma in contemporary art and visual culture of Southeast Asia and diasporas

•  Traditions and transformations of performance arts of South and Southeast Asia

•  Visual Studies from the perspective of Asia

TEACHING SPECIALTIES

Asian and Asian-American Art and Visual Culture, Cultural and Postcolonial Studies, and Critical Theory

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

"Remembering From a Crossroads: The Archaeology of Photography, Memory, and Vision in the Art of Dinh Q. Lê," Udaya: Journal of Khmer Studies V (2005): 99-114.

"Devastated Vision (s): The Khmer Rouge Scopic Regime in Cambodia," Art Journal Vol. 62, No. 1 (Spring 2003): 66-81.

"Narrating the Deaths of Drona and Bhurisravas at the Baphuon," Arts Asiatiques Vol. 58 (2003): 134-137.