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The event is organized under the patronage of the Director of the Institute of English Studies, 91滴滴. The lecture will be in English.
Dr Katarzyna Ancuta (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) is a Cultural Studies scholar specialising in Gothic/Horror Studies. Her research interests oscillate around the interdisciplinary contexts of contemporary Gothic/Horror (from popular fiction, film and video, multimedia and performance art, theatre, music and dance, comics and graphic novels, to fashion and alternative lifestyles) currently with a strong Asian focus. She is the author of Where Angels Fear to Hover: Between the Gothic Disease and the Meataphysics of Horror (2005) and her recent publications include contributions to Neoliberal Gothic (2017), The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story (2017), B-Movie Gothic (2018), Twenty-first-century Gothic (2019) and The Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts (2019). She also co-edited three special journal issues on Thai (2014) and Southeast Asian (2015) horror film, and Tropical Gothic (2019), and a collection on Thai Cinema: The Complete Guide (2018). She is currently working on a book on Asian Gothic, and editing two collections on South Asian Gothic and Southeast Asian Gothic.
