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Zoran Lee Pecic

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Zoran Lee Pecic

Associate Professor
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture

zoran.l.pecic@ntnu.no
+4773592212 Bygg 11, 11-530, Dragvoll
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About

I am Associate Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture at NTNU. My areas of research include queer studies, cinema/screen studies, migration studies and East-Asia studies. I have a transdisciplinary research profile that brings together various academic disciplines and research methods. I have focused primarily on queer cultures from the Global South (the Caribbean, People’s Republic of China), looking at fiction, travel narratives, transnational cinema and independent documentary. 

Research interests:

  • Queer studies
  • East Asian screens
  • Chinese and South Korean cultures
  • Queerness in/from the Global South
  • Postcoloniality (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea)
  • Popular cultures
  • Ecocinema
  • Film festivals

I also work as the Programme Director for the Copenhagen Asian Film Festival, Scandinavia's first and only Asian film festival. I have spoken to various Danish media outlets-TV2, DR, Politiken, Zetland--about cultural flows (K-pop, cinema) in East Asia. 

Check out my personal website where I blog about my own research and various cultural events around the world.

Administration

I am the head of the Norwegian school for gender research, an association of gender research centres at all universities in Norway.

Supervision

I supervise students at BA and MA levels. I also welcome inquiries and applications from PhD students who share any of my research interests. 

Competencies

  • Biofilm
  • Cultural studies
  • Diveristy studies
  • Film and TV
  • Film studies
  • Hallyu 2.0
  • K-drama
  • K-pop
  • LGBTQ+
  • Literature
  • Popular Culture
  • Postcolonial studies
  • Queer literature
  • Queertheory
  • South Korean cinema
  • Women's and gender studies

Research

I published a book—New Queer Sinophone Cinema (2016)—on queer Sinophone cinema in 2016. This was the end product of a postdoctoral grant I received from the Danish Research Council (Det Frie Forskningsråd). I looked at various filmic expressions of queerness from the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Combining Sinophone and queer studies allowed me to question both Euro-American notions of queerness and Mainland-centric expressions of ‘Chineseness’. I worked at associate professor at Shantou University in Guangdong between 2010-2012. I also spent 6 months in 2014 as an affiliate fellow at the Centre for Visual Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.

My first monograph—Queer Narratives of the Caribbean Diaspora (2013)—was about queer Caribbean literature. Looking at the queer diasporic narratives in and from the Caribbean, the book combines queer theory and diaspora studies. It opens up a new domain where social and cultural meanings of sexuality within the Caribbean space become objects of historical, colonial and literary study. You can read more about the book on my personal website.

I am a co-editor of an interdisciplinary volume on postcoloniality in Europe—Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires (2018). The anthology engages with the concept of ‘Europe’ in various ways—as a as a geographical space, as a geopolitical power and as a privileged epistemic site that historically has occluded others and continues to marginalise them. The book is an effort to decolonise the theoretical hegemony of European as well as Western thought, and allow for a rewriting of epistemologies from other hemispheres, inside and outside of the site of control and coloniality of once colonial powers.  

Queer Narratives of the Caribbean Diaspora

This book examines the concept of queer theory and combines it with the field of diaspora studies. By looking at the queer diasporic narratives in and from the Caribbean, it conducts an inquiry into the workings and underpinnings of both fields.

New Queer Sinophone Cinema

This book looks closely at some of the most significant films within the field of queer Sinophone cinema. Examining queerness in films produced in the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong, the book merges the Sinophone with the queer.

Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires

The book brings together scholars from across disciplines to rethink European colonialism in the light of its vanishing empires and the rise of new global power structures.

Publications

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2020

  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2020) Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism. Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics. volum 4 (2).
    Book review
  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2020) Shamans and nativism: postcolonial trauma in Spirits’ Homecoming (2016) and Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits (2013). Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema. volum 12 (1).
    Academic article
  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2020) Haunting China: Ecopoetics of Zhao Liang’s Behemoth. Asian Cinema. volum 31 (2).
    Academic article

2019

  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2019) I Kina er alt om Freddie Mercurys homoseksualitet fjernet i 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. Danmarks radio.
    publications.INTERVJUSKRIFTL

2018

  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2018) Queer/Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism and Media Cultures. Kvinder, Køn og Forskning. volum 4 (18).
    Book review
  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2018) Representability and Auteurship in Queer Hong Kong Cinema. The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2017

  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2017) Between East and West: Queerness in Zhang Yuan's East Palace, West Palace. Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2017) Sinophone Queerness and Female Auteurship in Zero Chou’s Drifting Flowers. IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film. volum 3 (1).
    Academic article
  • Pecic, Zoran Lee; Jensen, Lars; Groes-Green, Christian; Suarez Krabbe, Julia. (2017) Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires. Rowman & Littlefield International. 2017. ISBN 9781786603043.
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Pecic, Zoran Lee; Suarez Krabbe, Julia; Groes-Green, Christian; Jensen, Lars. (2017) Introduction. Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2016

  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2016) New Queer Sinophone Cinema: Local Histories, Transnational Connections. Palgrave Pivot. 2016. ISBN 9781349948819.
    Academic monograph

2015

  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2015) Re-Creating the Queer Narrative: The Past and the Present in Lawrence Scott’s Aelred’s Sin. Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, ‘Race’ : 2—Diaspora, Memory and Intimacy.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2013

  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2013) Contemporary Caribbean writing and Deleuze: literature between postcolonialism and post-continental philosophy. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. volum 49 (5).
    Book review
  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2013) Queer Narratives of the Caribbean Diaspora: Exploring Tactics. Palgrave Macmillan. 2013. ISBN 9780230367418.
    Academic monograph

2011

  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2011) Floral Diaspora in Jamaica Kincaid’s Travel Writing. Postcolonial Travel Writing: Critical Explorations.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Journal publications

  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2020) Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism. Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics. volum 4 (2).
    Book review
  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2020) Shamans and nativism: postcolonial trauma in Spirits’ Homecoming (2016) and Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits (2013). Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema. volum 12 (1).
    Academic article
  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2020) Haunting China: Ecopoetics of Zhao Liang’s Behemoth. Asian Cinema. volum 31 (2).
    Academic article
  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2019) I Kina er alt om Freddie Mercurys homoseksualitet fjernet i 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. Danmarks radio.
    publications.INTERVJUSKRIFTL
  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2018) Queer/Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism and Media Cultures. Kvinder, Køn og Forskning. volum 4 (18).
    Book review
  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2017) Sinophone Queerness and Female Auteurship in Zero Chou’s Drifting Flowers. IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film. volum 3 (1).
    Academic article
  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2013) Contemporary Caribbean writing and Deleuze: literature between postcolonialism and post-continental philosophy. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. volum 49 (5).
    Book review

Books

  • Pecic, Zoran Lee; Jensen, Lars; Groes-Green, Christian; Suarez Krabbe, Julia. (2017) Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires. Rowman & Littlefield International. 2017. ISBN 9781786603043.
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2016) New Queer Sinophone Cinema: Local Histories, Transnational Connections. Palgrave Pivot. 2016. ISBN 9781349948819.
    Academic monograph
  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2013) Queer Narratives of the Caribbean Diaspora: Exploring Tactics. Palgrave Macmillan. 2013. ISBN 9780230367418.
    Academic monograph

Part of book/report

  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2018) Representability and Auteurship in Queer Hong Kong Cinema. The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2017) Between East and West: Queerness in Zhang Yuan's East Palace, West Palace. Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Pecic, Zoran Lee; Suarez Krabbe, Julia; Groes-Green, Christian; Jensen, Lars. (2017) Introduction. Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2015) Re-Creating the Queer Narrative: The Past and the Present in Lawrence Scott’s Aelred’s Sin. Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, ‘Race’ : 2—Diaspora, Memory and Intimacy.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2011) Floral Diaspora in Jamaica Kincaid’s Travel Writing. Postcolonial Travel Writing: Critical Explorations.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Teaching

Courses

  • KULT6502 - Gender and Diversity in Organization and Management
  • KULT2221 - Gendered Intersections in Popular Culture
  • KULT3305 - Theories of gender, equality and diversity

Media

2023

  • Interview
    Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2023) Idrett i motbakke. Under Dusken [Avis]. 2023-01-31.
  • Interview
    Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2023) »Lad ikke verden vide, at dette er koreanernes favoritfilm«: Sydkoreas had til Japan opretholdes gennem filmindustrien. Dagbladet Politiken [Avis]. 2023-01-24.

2022

  • Interview
    Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2022) Perverteret af kapitalismens mekanismer. Atlas [Tidsskrift]. 2022-01-07.

2021

  • Interview
    Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2021) Historiske film fra Fjernøstens Hollywood risikerer at blive destrueret. Dagbladet Politiken [Avis]. 2021-09-01.
  • Interview
    Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2021) Slut med feminine mænd, homoseksuelle og at slå guder ihjel. Kina strammer censuren for computerspil. Zetland [Avis]. 2021-10-08.

2020

  • Interview
    Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2020) De har slået utallige rekorder: Derfor er koreansk boyband-succes blevet så stor. Danmarks Radio [Internett]. 2020-08-30.

2019

  • Interview
    Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2019) I Kina er alt om Freddie Mercurys homoseksualitet fjernet i 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. TV2 [Internett]. 2019-03-29.
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