Rachel V. Harrison and Peter A. Jackson
is Senior Lecturer in Thai Cultural Studies at SOAS, University of London. She has published widely on issues of gender, sexuality, modern literature and cinema in Thailand and teaches related courses in these areas. Her research interest in comparative literature has led her to further focus on the relationship of critical theory to an understanding of contemporary Thai cultural studies. She is also the editor of South East Asia Research.
is Senior Fellow in Thai History at the Australian National University in Canberra, where he specializes in the histories of Buddhism, gender, sexuality, and globalization in modern Thailand. He is a cofounder of the Asia Pacific Queer Network (http://apq.anu.edu.au/), a collaborating general editor of the Hong Kong University Press “Queer Asia” monograph series, and editor-in-chief of the Asian Studies Review.