In November 2022, one of the leading experts on Asian Gothic, Dr Colette Balmain from Kingston University, UK, gave a talk on East Asian Gothic cinema at NCCU in Taipei.
2022亞際文化秋季大師系列講座：推進亞洲視覺文化研究
Inter-Asia Talk Series 2022, Enhance Asian Visual Culture Studies
To facilitate the research and foster communication between Taiwan and the International academic circle, IACS organizes serial talks, inviting well-known scholars from all over the world to share the latest research spotlights. The umbrella title of this series is ‘enhance Asian visual culture studies’’. Scholars will share about gothic cinema, streaming platforms, queer cinema, animation and children, circulation of cinema, methodology, and independent filmmaking. We hope these talks will give the audience some ideas or insight on their way to research.
此次系列大師座談，我們將焦點聚焦於亞際之間的視覺文化研究，尤其以電影的呈現與再現為系列演講主軸。邀請國際知名學者來校給予同學研究成果及研究焦點，同時促進本校國際化與學術交流的實力。此演講將涉及的學科領域，廣泛觸及文學院、社科院、傳播學院等各科系研究項目，亦希望藉此擴大師生的視野，增進學習動能，促進研究多元性。
Dr Sylvia Sagolsem is an Independent Researcher and former Assistant Professor of English Literature at Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi. She holds a Ph.D. from Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (2019). Her research interests include Folktale and Fairy Tale Studies, Folklore and Digital Cultures, Oral Literatures, Literatures of Northeast India, and Hallyu Studies. Her forthcoming publications include two book chapters, “Hallyu 2.0 and social media in Manipur: Examining Cultural Formation through User Generated Content” (Palgrave/Springer) and “Phungawari in the Digital Age: Folkloric expressions and new media” (Routledge).
Aqsa Eram is a doctoral research scholar at the Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow, India. Her research focuses on a postcolonial approach to Gothic in colonial writings. Her areas of interest also include contemporary horror, Indian literature in English and studies in Popular fiction.
Suleyman Bolukbas is a second year dual-title Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. Originally from Turkey, his research focuses on comparative analysis of Turkish literature, gender and sexuality studies in literature and culture, and queer and gothic studies. In 2022, he became the Assistant Editor of Women, Gender, and Families of Color (WGFC). He is interested in queer readings of the gothic as an international and global phenomenon. His research particularly revolves around the global circulation of gothic narratives in relation to local identities, cultures, nations and how gothic\’s queerness is reshaped by them.
Ffion Davies is a PhD student at City University of Hong Kong researching deviant masculinities and the figure of the homme fatal in early twentieth-century American crime fiction. She was awarded the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship in 2020 and served as an assistant editor of Crime Fiction Studies between 2021 and 2023. She is particularly interested in studying subversive gender representation through Crime and Horror narratives of the twentieth century.
A fantastic book for all the fans of folk horror out there, Folk Horror: New Global Pathways, edited by Dawn Keetley and Ruth Heholt, is the first publication that situates folk horror as a global phenomenon, not limited to British or American cinema. The book includes chapters that extend folk horror’s geographic terrain to Italy, Ukraine, Thailand, Mexico and the Appalachian region of the US, among them a discussion on folk horror themes in popular Thai cinema by Katarzyna Ancuta.
One of the most anticipated publications of 2024 is finally out, The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic, edited by Rebecca Duncan, heralded as “the most substantial exploration to date of gothic fiction in the international context.” It includes a chapter on Asian Folklore and Globalgothic by Katarzyna Ancuta but there are plenty more exciting chapters to read. It’s a must have for anyone working on international, regional or indeed global gothic.
Leonie Rowland is a PhD candidate with the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), where she researches Japanese Gothic in the age of animist capitalism. Her research interests include Japanese Gothic, Japanese horror, Asian Gothic, socioeconomics, capitalist realism, literature and film