Book · 2016
New Queer Sinophone Cinema
Close readings of films from the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong that rethink the relationship between queerness, Chineseness and transnational cinema.
View book →Zoran Lee Pecic
Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture at NTNU
I work on queer studies, cinema and East Asian popular culture. I’m interested in how films and other cultural texts shape ideas about identity, migration, ecology and social change, especially in East Asia and the Global South.
Selected work
Article · 2024
Queer Cinemas of the Sinosphere
How tourism, consumption and transnational filmmaking position China as an active participant in global queer culture.
View article →Article · 2023
Boxed within the Frame
An analysis of Pema Tseden's Jinpa, examining Tibetan masculinities, karmic structures and visual framing during cultural transformation.
View article →Chapter · Forthcoming 2026
Queerness as Soft Power
Examines cruel optimism from K-pop to Love in the Big City in The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and South Korea, analyzing queer cultural exports, Korean screen media, and political representation.
View chapter →Current projects
Collaborative teaching
Nordic-Baltic Korean Studies Days
An intensive university module and academic network gathering students and scholars across the Nordic and Baltic region for lectures, workshops, and student research panels.
Explore project →International collaboration
SoMaT
Sociomaterial Transformations in Norway and East Asia (2023–2028), examining how sustainability, digitalisation, and diversity are experienced and negotiated across institutions and everyday life.
Explore project →Research enquiries
I welcome enquiries about research collaboration, doctoral supervision, invited talks and media commentary.