Cinema, Literature, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
Research interests
Cultural studies, cinema, modern literature, postcolonial and gender studies with reference to Thailand and more widely to mainland South East Asia; medical humanities and public engagement with reference to Northeast Thailand (Isan) and Lao PDR; literary criticism and South East Asian Literatures in a comparative context; perceptions of cultural difference, Orientalism and Otherness.
Should commercial sex workers have unrestricted healthcare access across the world?
Taylor-Robinson, Simon, Harrison, Rachel, De Souza Lopes, Paolo A. and Zdravkov, Jey, 2021, International Journal for Equity in Health (20), 237, pp 1-5
The multidisciplinary team meeting in the UK from the patients' perspective: comments and observations from cholangiocarcinoma patients and their families
Morement, Helen, Harrison, Rachel and Taylor-Robinson, Simon, 2017, International Journal of General Medicine (2017), 10, pp 305-310
Diet and disease: transgressing boundaries between science and society - Understanding neglected diseases through the lens of cultural studies and anthropology
Asavarut, Pallad, Norsworthy, Peter J., Cook, Joanna, Taylor-Robinson, Simon and Harrison, Rachel, 2016, Journal of Medical Humanities (42), 3, pp 181-183
Looking forward, Looking back: towards a comparative study of the interaction between the traditional and modern in contemporary SEA [and] Sita Writes Back: Reinventing the Ramayana
Rithy Panh’s The Sea Wall: Reinventing Duras in Cambodia
Yeager, Jack and Harrison, Rachel (2021). In: Barnes, Leslie, (eds.) and Mai, Joseph, (eds.), The Cinema of Rithy Panh: Everything Has a Soul. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press
The Man with the Golden Gauntlets: Mit Chaibancha’s Insi thorng and the Confusion of Red and Yellow Perils in Thai Cold War Action Cinema
Harrison, Rachel (2010). In: Day, Tony, (eds.) and Liem, Maya, (eds.), Cultures at War: The Cold War and the Arts in Southeast Asia.. Ithaca, New York: SEAP Cornell University Press
Sex in a Hot Climate: Moral Degeneracy and Erotic Excess in The Story of Jan Daraa
Harrison, Rachel (2004). In: Worton, Michael, (eds.) and Wilson-Tagoe, Nana, (eds.), National Healths. Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-Cultural Context.. London: UCL Press, pp 121-136
Facing Demons: Sida Marries Totsakan in Sidaoreuang's Modern Thai Reinventions of the Epic Ramayana (Ramakien)
Harrison, Rachel (2003). In: Labarthe, J., (ed.), Formes modernes de la poésie épique. Nouvelles approches. Bruxelles ; New York: Peter Lang, pp 339-369
The Madonna and the Whore: Self/Other tensions in the characterization of the prostitute by Thai female authors
Harrison, Rachel (1999). In: Jackson, Peter, (eds.) and Cook, Nerida M., (eds.), Genders and Sexualities in Modern Thailand. Chiang Mai: Silkworm, pp 168-190
The “Good”, the “Bad” and the Pregnant: Why the Thai Prostitute as Literary Heroine Can’t be Seen to Give Birth
Harrison, Rachel (1997). In: Somswasdi, Virada, (eds.) and Theobald, Sally, (eds.), Women, Gender Relations and Development in Thai Society. Chiangmai: Women’s Studies Centre, Chiangmai University Press, pp 323-348
