Rachel V. Harrison is a Reader in Thai Cultural Studies in the Department of South East Asia at SOAS, University of London. She has published widely on issues of gendered difference, sexuality, modern literature and cinema in Thailand as well as the comparative literature of South East Asia. She is the co-editor, in collaboration with Peter A. Jackson, of *The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial in Thailand* (Hong Kong University Press and Cornell University Press). She is also editor of the journal South East Asia Research. (<a href="https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/rachel-harrison">Photo</a>)