School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Professor of Thai Cultural Studies
Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies
Steering Committee Member and MA Cultural Studies
Cinema, Literature, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
Research interests
Cultural studies, cinema, modern literature, postcolonial and gender studies with reference to Thailand and more widely to mainland South East Asia; medical humanities and public engagement with reference to Northeast Thailand (Isan) and Lao PDR; literary criticism and South East Asian Literatures in a comparative context; perceptions of cultural difference, Orientalism and Otherness.
Should commercial sex workers have unrestricted healthcare access across the world?
Taylor-Robinson, Simon, Harrison, Rachel, De Souza Lopes, Paolo A. and Zdravkov, Jey, 2021, International Journal for Equity in Health (20), 237, pp 1-5
The multidisciplinary team meeting in the UK from the patients' perspective: comments and observations from cholangiocarcinoma patients and their families
Morement, Helen, Harrison, Rachel and Taylor-Robinson, Simon, 2017, International Journal of General Medicine (2017), 10, pp 305-310
Diet and disease: transgressing boundaries between science and society - Understanding neglected diseases through the lens of cultural studies and anthropology
Asavarut, Pallad, Norsworthy, Peter J., Cook, Joanna, Taylor-Robinson, Simon and Harrison, Rachel, 2016, Journal of Medical Humanities (42), 3, pp 181-183
Looking forward, Looking back: towards a comparative study of the interaction between the traditional and modern in contemporary SEA [and] Sita Writes Back: Reinventing the Ramayana
Rithy Panh’s The Sea Wall: Reinventing Duras in Cambodia
Yeager, Jack and Harrison, Rachel (2021). In: Barnes, Leslie, (eds.) and Mai, Joseph, (eds.), The Cinema of Rithy Panh: Everything Has a Soul. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press
The Man with the Golden Gauntlets: Mit Chaibancha’s Insi thorng and the Confusion of Red and Yellow Perils in Thai Cold War Action Cinema
Harrison, Rachel (2010). In: Day, Tony, (eds.) and Liem, Maya, (eds.), Cultures at War: The Cold War and the Arts in Southeast Asia.. Ithaca, New York: SEAP Cornell University Press
Sex in a Hot Climate: Moral Degeneracy and Erotic Excess in The Story of Jan Daraa
Harrison, Rachel (2004). In: Worton, Michael, (eds.) and Wilson-Tagoe, Nana, (eds.), National Healths. Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-Cultural Context.. London: UCL Press, pp 121-136
Facing Demons: Sida Marries Totsakan in Sidaoreuang's Modern Thai Reinventions of the Epic Ramayana (Ramakien)
Harrison, Rachel (2003). In: Labarthe, J., (ed.), Formes modernes de la poésie épique. Nouvelles approches. Bruxelles ; New York: Peter Lang, pp 339-369
The Madonna and the Whore: Self/Other tensions in the characterization of the prostitute by Thai female authors
Harrison, Rachel (1999). In: Jackson, Peter, (eds.) and Cook, Nerida M., (eds.), Genders and Sexualities in Modern Thailand. Chiang Mai: Silkworm, pp 168-190
The “Good”, the “Bad” and the Pregnant: Why the Thai Prostitute as Literary Heroine Can’t be Seen to Give Birth
Harrison, Rachel (1997). In: Somswasdi, Virada, (eds.) and Theobald, Sally, (eds.), Women, Gender Relations and Development in Thai Society. Chiangmai: Women’s Studies Centre, Chiangmai University Press, pp 323-348
