Zoran Lee Pecic
About
I am 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 was a former 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.
Management
- 2023-2024: head of the Norwegian school for gender research, an association of gender research centres at all universities in Norway.
- Organiser of the gender research PhD course, to be held at NTNU in spring 2024.
- NTNU representative for the Norwegian professional body for gender research.
Collaboration
- I am the NTNU representative for Nordic-Baltic Korean Studies Days, an annual course in Korean Studies organised by universities across the Nordic and Baltic regions.
- Project member of Sociomaterial Transformations in Norway and East Asia (SoMaT).
Supervision
I welcome inquiries and applications from PhD students who share any of my research interests.
Administration
- Head of PhD examining committee
- Member of Study Board at LIMA
- Member of PhD committee
- Member of appointment committee
Research
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 published my second book—New Queer Sinophone Cinema (2016)—on queer Chinese language 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.
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
New Queer Sinophone Cinema
Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires
Publications
Boxed within the frame: Tibetan masculinities in transformation in Pema Tseden’s Jinpa
Queer cinemas of the Sinosphere: Queer China goes out
Shamans and nativism: postcolonial trauma in Spirits’ Homecoming (2016) and Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits (2013)
2024
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee.
(2024)
Queer cinemas of the Sinosphere: Queer China goes out.
Journal of Chinese Cinemas
Academic article
2023
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee.
(2023)
Boxed within the frame: Tibetan masculinities in transformation in Pema Tseden’s Jinpa.
New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film
Academic article
2020
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee.
(2020)
Haunting China: Ecopoetics of Zhao Liang’s Behemoth.
Asian Cinema
Academic article
-
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
Academic article
2019
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee.
(2019)
I Kina er alt om Freddie Mercurys homoseksualitet fjernet i 'Bohemian Rhapsody'.
Danmarks radio
Interview Journal
2018
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee.
(2018)
Representability and Auteurship in Queer Hong Kong Cinema.
Palgrave Macmillan
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2017
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee.
(2017)
Between East and West: Queerness in Zhang Yuan's East Palace, West Palace.
Rowman & Littlefield International
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee;
Suarez Krabbe, Julia;
Groes-Green, Christian;
Jensen, Lars.
(2017)
Introduction.
Rowman & Littlefield International
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
Academic article
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee;
Jensen, Lars;
Groes-Green, Christian;
Suarez Krabbe, Julia.
(2017)
Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires.
Rowman & Littlefield International
Rowman & Littlefield International
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
2016
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee.
(2016)
New Queer Sinophone Cinema: Local Histories, Transnational Connections.
Palgrave Pivot
Palgrave Pivot
Academic monograph
2015
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee.
(2015)
Re-Creating the Queer Narrative: The Past and the Present in Lawrence Scott’s Aelred’s Sin.
Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2013
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee.
(2013)
Queer Narratives of the Caribbean Diaspora: Exploring Tactics.
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan
Academic monograph
2011
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee.
(2011)
Floral Diaspora in Jamaica Kincaid’s Travel Writing.
Palgrave Macmillan
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Journal publications
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee.
(2024)
Queer cinemas of the Sinosphere: Queer China goes out.
Journal of Chinese Cinemas
Academic article
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee.
(2023)
Boxed within the frame: Tibetan masculinities in transformation in Pema Tseden’s Jinpa.
New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film
Academic article
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee.
(2020)
Haunting China: Ecopoetics of Zhao Liang’s Behemoth.
Asian Cinema
Academic article
-
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
Academic article
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee.
(2019)
I Kina er alt om Freddie Mercurys homoseksualitet fjernet i 'Bohemian Rhapsody'.
Danmarks radio
Interview Journal
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee.
(2017)
Sinophone Queerness and Female Auteurship in Zero Chou’s Drifting Flowers.
IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film
Academic article
Books
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee;
Jensen, Lars;
Groes-Green, Christian;
Suarez Krabbe, Julia.
(2017)
Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires.
Rowman & Littlefield International
Rowman & Littlefield International
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee.
(2016)
New Queer Sinophone Cinema: Local Histories, Transnational Connections.
Palgrave Pivot
Palgrave Pivot
Academic monograph
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee.
(2013)
Queer Narratives of the Caribbean Diaspora: Exploring Tactics.
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan
Academic monograph
Part of book/report
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee.
(2018)
Representability and Auteurship in Queer Hong Kong Cinema.
Palgrave Macmillan
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee.
(2017)
Between East and West: Queerness in Zhang Yuan's East Palace, West Palace.
Rowman & Littlefield International
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee;
Suarez Krabbe, Julia;
Groes-Green, Christian;
Jensen, Lars.
(2017)
Introduction.
Rowman & Littlefield International
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.
Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Pecic, Zoran Lee.
(2011)
Floral Diaspora in Jamaica Kincaid’s Travel Writing.
Palgrave Macmillan
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Teaching
Courses
Outreach
2024
-
InterviewPecic, Zoran Lee. (2024) Hva er greia med K-pop?. ung.forskning.no ung.forskning.no [Internet] 2024-03-05
2023
-
InterviewPecic, Zoran Lee. (2023) "Lad ikke verden vide, at dette er koreanernes favoritfilm": Sydkoreas had til Japan opretholdes gennem filmindustrien. Dagbladet Politiken Dagbladet Politiken [Newspaper] 2023-01-24
-
Interview
-
InterviewPecic, Zoran Lee. (2023) ‘Sad but expected’: Asia-focused research unit to close. University World News University World News [Internet] 2023-09-14
2022
-
Interview
2021
-
InterviewPecic, Zoran Lee. (2021) Slut med feminine mænd, homoseksuelle og at slå guder ihjel. Kina strammer censuren for computerspil. Zetland Zetland [Newspaper] 2021-10-08
-
InterviewPecic, Zoran Lee. (2021) Historiske film fra Fjernøstens Hollywood risikerer at blive destrueret. Dagbladet Politiken Dagbladet Politiken [Newspaper] 2021-09-01
2020
-
InterviewPecic, Zoran Lee. (2020) De har slået utallige rekorder: Derfor er koreansk boyband-succes blevet så stor. Danmarks Radio Danmarks Radio [Internet] 2020-08-30
2019
-
InterviewPecic, Zoran Lee. (2019) I Kina er alt om Freddie Mercurys homoseksualitet fjernet i 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. TV2 TV2 [Internet] 2019-03-29