Arnika Fuhrmann is a Professor at Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences, with appointments in Asian Studies, Comparative Literature, and Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies. She specializes in Southeast Asian aesthetic and political modernities through Buddhist and queer frameworks. PhD from University of Chicago (2008) MA from University of Hamburg (1995) Her research intersects Buddhist affect , queer theory , and transnational cinema , focusing on Thailand's cultural production. Key themes include: Ghostly aesthetics as political critique Queer-feminist filmic archives Buddhist-Muslim coexistence models Digital media and political temporality Recent articles examine Hong Kong's queer urbanity, Thai video art, and cross-regional horror film analysis. As associate editor of positions: asia critique , she contributes to academic discourse on Asian cultural theory. Current projects: In the Mood for Texture (Bangkok's Chinese aesthetics) and Digital Futures (media temporality)












