Yanisa Khumwongdee
PhD student

Profile

Biography

PhD in Women’s Studies (in progress), University of York - supervised by Dr Ann Kaloski-Naylor

MA in American Studies, Brown University

BA in Language and Culture (Major in Cultural Studies, Minor in Japanese Language), Chulalongkorn University

Research

Overview

The aim of my project is to examine how fat, heterosexual romantic and sexual intimacy is constructed in contemporary popular Thai and US romance novels. I wish to investigate how fat romance novels construct, perpetuate, and perhaps challenge understandings of gender, body and relationships in two different cultures and social contexts.