Palita Chunsaengchan

Contact Me

palitac@umn.edu
612-625-6534

Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
220 Folwell Hall
9 Pleasant St SE

Affiliations

• Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D.: Comparative Literature, University of Oregon.
• Specialized Graduate Certificate : New Media and Culture, University of Oregon.
• B.A. (Hons.): French and Comparative Literature, Chulalongkorn University.

Curriculum Vitae

Specialties

• Comparative Media Aesthetics
• Film theory / historiography
• Early Thai Cinema
• "Media Modernity"
• Cinema and Politics of Class, Production and Circulation
• Contemporary Southeast Asian Cinema

Courses Taught

• AMES3900: Graphic Novels: Illustrated Stories of War and Recovery (Fall 2020)
• AMES3920: Cinema and Media Cultures in Southeast Asia (Fall 2020)
• World Cinema Series: "Desires in Asian Cinemas and Media Cultures"
• World Cinema Series: "Worlding Asian Cinemas: Aesthetics and Globalization"
• World Cinema Series: "Films and Politics of the Masses"

Research & Professional Activities

Research

• Book Manuscript: Ruling Aesthetics: Politics of Media Modernity in Early Thai Cinema
• Book Manuscript: Phantasmagoric Designs of Class, Space and Labor in Contemporary Southeast Asian Cinema