Palita Chunsaengchan

she/her/hers

[email protected]

Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

327E Folwell Hall

9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

Moving Image, Media & Sound

Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature

Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC),

Links

Website

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Ph.D.: Comparative Literature, University of Oregon
Specialized Certificate : New Media and Culture, University of Oregon

Specialties

Film Historiography
Media Theory and the Global South
Aesthetics, coloniality and decolonization in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asian Cinema: specifically work, labor and migration
Early Thai Cinema (book manuscript)

Publications

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Publications

Chunsaengchan, Palita. "Poeticizing Cinematic Experiences: Traditional Thai Poetry in Early Film Magazine of Phappayon Siam." Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 14.2 (2023): 230-51.
Chunsaengchan, Palita. "Home Away From Home: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Filmed Images of Home and Homeland Envisioned." The Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (February 2023).
Chunsaengchan, Palita. “The Making of the Cold War Alliance: Hollywood as an American Diplomat and Thailand’s Ban of The King and I (1956).” Asian Film Archive, July 1, 2022. https://www.asianfilmarchive.org/the-making-of-the-cold-war-alliance-hollywood-as-an-american-diplomat-and-thailands-ban-of-the-king-and-i-1956/.
Chunsaengchan, Palita. “The Critique of Anti-Communist State Violence in Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.” Asian Cinema 32, no. 1 (2021): 95–111. https://doi.org/10.1386/ac_00035_1.
Chunsaengchan, Palita. “Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability by Gerald Sim (Review).” Sojourn (Singapore) 37, no. 2 (2022): 372–74.
Chunsaengchan, Palita. "Book Review, Celluloid Colony: Locating History and Ethnography in Early Dutch Colonial Films of Indonesia." Journal of Asian Studies 83, 2 : 507-509.
Chunsaengchan, Palita. "Narng Sao Suwanna (Miss Suwanna of Siam)," in Thai Cinema: The Complete Guide. eds. Ainslie, Mary J., and Katarzyna Ancuta. London ; New York: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2018.
Chunsaengchan, Palita. "Choke Sorng Chan (Double Luck)," in Thai Cinema: The Complete Guide. eds. Ainslie, Mary J., and Katarzyna Ancuta. London ; New York: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2018.
Chunsaengchan, Palita. "Nitarn Kong Loong Reung Wan Wiset (A Fable from an Uncle: The Magical Ring)," in Thai Cinema: The Complete Guide. eds. Ainslie, Mary J., and Katarzyna Ancuta. London ; New York: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2018.
Chunsaengchan, Palita. "Less About and Beyond Digital Culture: Reflections on Barthes’ Camera Lucida, Galloway’s The Interface Effect and Some Concern in Media Studies in Thailand." Journal of Media, Arts and Design 1.1 (2016): 86-98.
Chunsaengchan, Palita, Supachai Supaphol. Translation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discours sur l'économie politique in Thai . Victory Press, 2015.

Activities

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Activities

Research

Book Manuscript: Chimeric Cinema: The Formation of Thai Film Culture.
Exploring the Next Phase of Transnational Co-Production: South-South Collaboration in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria (2021): Part of a co-edited volume, Contemporary Thai Cinema: New Movements and Social Change, which will be published with Edinburgh University Press..
The Phantasm of Remaindered Life: Doubling Deaths in Phantom of Illumination (2017)
Co-host, co-moderator : Webinar roundtable discussions, “Inter-Asian Forum on Film Censorship: Theory/Praxis/Politics Series" . Fall 2021 - Spring 2022

Outreach

Southeast Asian Cinema and Its Diaspora: Curation and screening of Southeast Asian films in the Twin Cities. The first public screening was held at Trylon Cinema in May 2023. This project is sponsored by the Imagine Fund Special Events, The Institute of Advanced Study. . 2023-25
Interpreter & Subtitles Controller: For the live stage performance, FREETIME, by Thai film director, Anocha Suwichakornpong, at the Walker Art Center. . March 19, 2022
Moderator & Discussant: Collaborative Discussion with indigenous activists and public programs as part of the exhibition Surrendur by Karthik Pandian (Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard U) on display at the Midway Contemporary Art (March 15 - June 10, 2025).

Awards

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Courses

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Courses

AMES 5250 Theory/Praxis/Politics in Asian Cinema
AMES 3920 Southeast Asian Filmmakers
AMES 3756 Southeast Asian Cinema
AMES 3256 Graphic Novels: Conflict, Peace, Protest
AMES 5720 Media Ecologies
AMES 4910W Capstone
AMES 8002 Media Theory and the Global South
AMES 5920/3920 Global Political Cinema