Zoran Lee Pecic
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.
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
New Queer Sinophone Cinema
Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires
Publications
2020
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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
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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
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Pecic, Zoran Lee.
(2020)
Haunting China: Ecopoetics of Zhao Liang’s Behemoth.
Asian Cinema.
volum 31 (2).
Academic article
2019
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Pecic, Zoran Lee.
(2019)
I Kina er alt om Freddie Mercurys homoseksualitet fjernet i 'Bohemian Rhapsody'.
Danmarks radio.
publications.INTERVJUSKRIFTL
2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Pecic, Zoran Lee.
(2016)
New Queer Sinophone Cinema: Local Histories, Transnational Connections.
Palgrave Pivot. 2016. ISBN 9781349948819.
Academic monograph
2015
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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
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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
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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
Media
2023
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InterviewPecic, Zoran Lee. (2023) Idrett i motbakke. Under Dusken [Avis]. 2023-01-31.
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InterviewPecic, 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
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InterviewPecic, Zoran Lee. (2022) Perverteret af kapitalismens mekanismer. Atlas [Tidsskrift]. 2022-01-07.
2021
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InterviewPecic, Zoran Lee. (2021) Historiske film fra Fjernøstens Hollywood risikerer at blive destrueret. Dagbladet Politiken [Avis]. 2021-09-01.
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InterviewPecic, Zoran Lee. (2021) Slut med feminine mænd, homoseksuelle og at slå guder ihjel. Kina strammer censuren for computerspil. Zetland [Avis]. 2021-10-08.
2020
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InterviewPecic, Zoran Lee. (2020) De har slået utallige rekorder: Derfor er koreansk boyband-succes blevet så stor. Danmarks Radio [Internett]. 2020-08-30.
2019
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InterviewPecic, Zoran Lee. (2019) I Kina er alt om Freddie Mercurys homoseksualitet fjernet i 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. TV2 [Internett]. 2019-03-29.