SOAS University of London

Department of the Languages and Cultures of South East Asia

Rachel V Harrison

BA, PhD (London)
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Overview

Rachel Harrison
Department of South East Asia

Professor of Thai Cultural Studies

Centre for Gender Studies

Member

SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

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Name:
Professor Rachel V Harrison
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Fridays 1.30-3.30pm

Biography

Cinema, Literature, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

Teaching

Programmes Convened
Courses Taught
PhD Students supervised
  • Art Mitchells-Urwin, Pornography Consumption of Diasporic Thais: Shifting and Static Responses to Power and the Erotic
  • Isaya Singpongsporn, Cultural Hybridity on Thai Television Drama
  • Jiratorn Sakulwattana , The Representation of Female Body and Romance in Thai Films after 1997
  • Joshua Black, Working title: Queer Identities in Modern Vietnamese Literature and New Media
  • Kulyanee Jongjairuksa, A Sociological Approach to Investigating Stylistic Features of Chinese Martial Arts Novels Translated by Nor Nopparat
  • Michaela Unterbarnscheidt, A comparative study of transition and social change in early Thai and Amharic novels
  • Veluree Metaveevinij, (Re)constructing Thainess on screen: Government Policies towards Thai Cinema during 2001-2012

Research

Cultural studies, cinema, literature and gender studies with reference to Thailand; literary criticism and South East Asian Literatures in a comparative context; cinema in mainland South East Asia; gender in South East Asia especially Thailand.

Expertise

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Available for
  • TV
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  • Briefings
  • Special Study Programmes
  • Short Term Consultancy
  • Long Term Consultancy
Regional Expertise
  • South East Asia
Country Expertise
  • Thailand
Languages
  • Thai

Publications

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Edited Books or Journal Volumes

Harrison, Rachel, ed. (2014) Disturbing Conventions: Decentering Thai Literary Cultures. London and New York: Rowman and Littlefield International.

Harrison, Rachel and Jackson, Peter, eds. (2010) The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial in Thailand. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

Harrison, Rachel and Jackson, Peter, eds. (2009) Siamese Modernities and the Colonial West. Southeast Asia Research Vol. 17 No. 3. London: Sage Publications.

Book Chapters

Harrison, Rachel (2010) '‘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'.' In: Day, Tony and Liem, Maya, (eds.), Cultures at War: The Cold War and the Arts in Southeast Asia. Ithaca, New York: SEAP Cornell University Press.

Harrison, Rachel (2009) '“Elementary, My Dear Wat”: Influence and Imitation in the Early Crime Fiction of “Late-Victorian” Siam.' In: Jedamski, Doris, (ed.), Chewing over the West: occidental narratives in non-Western readings. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Harrison, Rachel (2004) 'Sex in a Hot Climate: Moral Degeneracy and Erotic Excess in The Story of Jan Daraa.' In: Worton, M. and Wilson-Tagoe, N., (eds.), National Healths. Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-Cultural Context. London: UCL Press, pp. 121-136.

Harrison, Rachel (2003) 'Thailande: Between East and West.' In: Zaini-Lajoubert, M and Bernot, Denise, (eds.), États et littérature en Asie : l'émergence des États modernes (XIXe - XXe siècles). Paris: Les Indes Savantes, pp. 154-184.

Harrison, Rachel (2003) 'Facing Demons: Sida Marries Totsakan in Sidaoreuang's Modern Thai Reinventions of the Epic Ramayana (Ramakien).' In: Labarthe, J., (ed.), Formes modernes de la poésie épique. Nouvelles approches. Bruxelles ; New York: P.I.E. - Peter Lang, pp. 339-369.

Harrison, Rachel (2001) 'Prostitution, Politics and Power: Issues of "Foreigness" in Western television documentaries of female sex workers.' In: Munshi, S, (ed.), Images of the 'Modern' Woman in Asia. London: Curzon (London), pp. 138-68.

Harrison, Rachel (2001) 'The Indigenous and the "Foreign": the Reception, Adaptation and Reinvention of Western Literatures in South East Asia�.' In: Detrie, M, (ed.), France-Asie: un siecle d�echanges litteraires. Paris: You Feng, pp. 240-254.

Harrison, Rachel (1999) 'The Madonna and the Whore: Self/Other tensions in the characterization of the prostitute by Thai female authors.' In: P, eds, (ed.), Genders and Sexualities in Modern Thailand. Silkworm (Chiang mai), pp. 168-190.

Harrison, Rachel (1997) 'The “Good”, the “Bad” and the Pregnant: Why the Thai Prostitute as Literary Heroine Can’t be Seen to Give Birth.' In: Somswasdi, Virada and Theobald, Sally, (eds.), Women, Gender Relations and Development in Thai Society. Chiangmai: Women’s Studies Centre, Chiangmai University Press, pp. 323-348.

Harrison, Rachel (1995) 'Birth, Death and Identity in the Writing of Sidaoru’ang from 1975-90.' In: Chitakasem, Manas, (ed.), Thai Literary Traditions. Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Press, pp. 87-117.

Articles

Harrison, Rachel (2017) 'Dystopia as Liberation: Disturbing Femininities in Contemporary Thailand.' Feminist Review. (Forthcoming)

Asavarut, Pallad and Norsworthy, Peter J. and Cook, Joanna and Taylor-Robinson, Simon D. and Harrison, Rachel (2016) 'Diet and disease: transgressing boundaries between science and society - Understanding neglected diseases through the lens of cultural studies and anthropology.' Journal of Medical Humanities.

Harrison, Rachel (2007) '“Somewhere Over the Rainbow”: Global Projections/Local Allusions in ‘Tears of the Black Tiger’/Fa thalai jone.' Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 8 (2). pp. 194-210.

Harrison, Rachel (2005) 'Cultures of criticism, constructions of femininity and the impossibilities of female desire.' South East Asia Research, 13 (1). pp. 91-111.

Harrison, Rachel (2005) 'Introduction: New Directions in Thai Cultural Studies.' South East Asia Research, 13 (1).

Harrison, Rachel (2005) 'Amazing Thai Film: The Rise and Rise of Contemporary Thai Cinema on the International Screen.' Asian Affairs, 36 (3). pp. 321-338.

Harrison, Rachel (2004) 'Introduction: The Human World of south East Asian Literatures.' Tenggara, 47 (8). pp. 1-7.

Harrison, Rachel (2004) 'Wild Roses and Urban Boring Bees: (Western) Feminist Readings of a Thai Feminine Text?' Tenggara, 47/48. pp. 93-115.

Harrison, Rachel (2002) ''A Hundred Loves', 'A Thousand Lovers': Portrayals of Sexuality in the Work of Thidaa Bunnaak.' Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 33 (3). pp. 451-470.

Harrison, Rachel (2000) 'The disruption of female desire and the Thai literary tradition of eroticism, religion and aesthetics.' Tenggara, 41. pp. 88-125.

Harrison, Rachel (2000) '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.' Tenggara, 42.

Harrison, Rachel (1999) 'The Son of a Javanese.' South East Asia Research, 7, par. pp. 141-188.

Harrison, Rachel (1995) 'The Writer, the Horseshoe Crab, His ‘Golden Blossom’ and Her Clients: Tales of Prostitution in Contemporary Thai Short Stories.' South East Asia Research, 3 (2). pp. 125-152.

Other

Harrison, Rachel (2002) 'Sidaoruang.' In: Introduction in Europe, revue litteraire mensualle - Choderlos de Laclos, Ecrivains de Thailands & du Laos. Europe. pp. 236-7.

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