Sophia Siddique Harvey

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Sophia Siddique Harvey (Vassar College) holds a PhD from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Her research interests include Singapore cultural studies, representations of trauma and memory in Cambodian, Indonesian, and Thai cinema, and genre (Asian Horror and Global Science Fiction). She has published in the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, and the Journal of Chinese Cinemas. She co-edited Transnational Horror Cinema: Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque (Palgrave Macmillan 2016) with Raphael Raphael. 

CURRENT AND FUTURE PROJECTS

 

Sophia Siddique is completing her manuscript: Screening Singapore: Sensuous Citizenship Formations and the National. Upcoming projects include a monograph on the horror film tentatively titled Skin Matters: Horror Films and the Phenomenology of the Monstrous and a scholarly essay “Critical Afterlives: Mapping the Transgressive Power of Incompletion in Shirkers 1.0 and 2.0” to be published in Undone: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film (University of California Press) edited by Alix Beeston and Stefan Solomon.

RECENT REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

1. Siddique, Sophia. “Mapping Regional Ambivalence and Anxieties in They Call Her…Cleopatra Wong.” In Southeast Asia on Screen: From Independence to Financial Crisis (1945 – 1998), edited by Gaik Cheng Khoo, Thomas Barker, and Mary Ainslie, 255-270. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020.