Zoran Lee Pecic

Zoran Lee Pecic is a Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Faculty of Humanities. He previously served as Programme Director for the Copenhagen Asian Film Festival and currently heads the Norwegian School for Gender Research. His research focuses on queer studies, East Asian cinemas, postcoloniality, and migration studies, with a transdisciplinary approach combining film analysis, cultural theory, and transnational perspectives.

Key research interests include queer narratives in the Global South (Caribbean, China), Sinophone cinema, postcolonial trauma, and the intersection of gender and popular culture. His work critiques Eurocentric frameworks and explores decolonial epistemologies through film and cultural studies.

Recent publications analyze Tibetan masculinities in New Tibetan Cinema, queer Sinophone cinema’s global engagement, and postcolonial dynamics in East Asian films. He collaborates internationally, including with Nordic-Baltic Korean Studies Days and the Sociomaterial Transformations (SoMaT) project.

Pecic has authored monographs on queer Caribbean diaspora literature and queer Sinophone cinema, co-edited Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires, and contributes to media discussions on East Asian cultural phenomena like K-pop and film censorship in China.

He supervises PhD students and participates in academic leadership roles, including NTNU’s PhD committees and gender research initiatives.