Phrae Chittiphalangsri

Phrae Chittiphalangsri is an Associate Professor at the Chalermprakiat Center for Translation and Interpretation (CCTI), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, where she also serves as chair of the MA program. She was co-editor of New Voices in Translation Studies (2008–2012) and currently sits on the journal’s advisory board. In 2015, she was elected to the executive council of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) and has served as co-vice president since 2021. Her research focuses on Thai translation history, Orientalism, and postcolonialism, with articles published in leading international journals such as Translation Studies, Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies, and The Translator. She has also contributed entries on Orientalism to the Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies and on Thai translation traditions to A World Atlas of Translation (2019). Most recently, she co-edited Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia (2024) with Vicente Rafael. Her current projects explore Thai postcolonial literature and Thai Anglophone fiction. She is also the principal editor of the forthcoming three-volume Anthology of Modern Thai Literature, funded by Thailand's Ministry of Higher Education. In addition to her academic work, she is an active literary translator working with English, French, and Thai.