Assistant Professor Porranee Singpliam, Ph.D.

NAME: Porranee Singpliam

OFFICE: 1308 Boromrajakumari Building

EMAIL ADDRESS: Porranee.S@chula.ac.th

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. in Cultural Studies
    Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies, Waseda University, 2018
    Dissertation: Women and Nation: Historicizing Thai Femininity From the 1960s-1990s
  • M.A. in Cultural Studies
    Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies, Waseda University, 2015
    Thesis: The Demythifying of Madame Butterfly Stereotypes
  • B.A. in Language and Culture (First-class honor)
    Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, 2013

RESEARCH INTEREST

  • Gender studies
  • Thai studies
  • Media and cultural theories
  • Body theory
  • Feminist thoughts

COURSES TAUGHT

  • 2200337 Cultures of the Body
  • 2200214 Introduction to Gender Studies
  • 2200442 Gender and Queering the Media
  • 2200413 Thailand and the World

GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

  • Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar (2024-2025)
  • The Australian National University Fund (2022-2024)
  • National Research Council of Thailand’s KONTHAI 4.0 (2022-2023)
  • Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI) Fundamental Fund (2021-2023)
  • The 90th Anniversary of Chulalongkorn University Fund: Ratchadaphiseksomphot Endowment Fund (2019)
  • MEXT 文部科学省 Recipient (2013-2018)

KEY PUBLICATIONS

Book Chapter

  • ภรณี สิงห์เปลี่ยม. (book chapter, 2567). เกย์กับการบวช: อัตลักษณ์ทางเพศสถานะและมโนทัศน์เรื่องการอุปสมบทของกลุ่มเกย์ในสังคมเมือง. (forthcoming).

Journal Article

  • Singpliam, Porranee, and Treepon Kirdnark. “Mia-Farang on YouTube: (Re)defining Thai Womanhood in the Network Society.” MANUSYA: Journal of Humanities, forthcoming.
  • Singpliam, Porranee. ““Darling, Beauty is Pain” Female Empowerment, Neoliberal Rationality, and Class: A Postfeminist Analysis of This is Me Vatanika.” MANUSYA: Journal of Humanities, vol. 25, pp. 1-22. https://brill.com/view/journals/mnya/25/1/article-p1_023.xml
  • Singpliam, Porranee. “Social Media, Body Norms, and Gendered Bodies: The Case Study of Conformity and Plausible Negotiation with the Ideal Body Image.” HASSS: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies, vol. 22, no. 3, 2022, pp. 589-600. https://so02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/hasss/article/view/245364
  • Singpliam, Porranee. “Women’s Disintegrated Participation: Hierarchy and Gender Relations Re-Examined in Khru Somsri.” MANUSYA: Journal of Humanities, vol. 22, no. 1, 2019, pp. 37-55. https://brill.com/view/journals/mnya/22/1/article-p54_54.xml
  • Singpliam, Porranee. “Multifarious Functions of the Influence of the Others: Reversed Gender Roles in Suratnari.” 13th International Conference on Thai Studies: Globalized Thailand? Connectivity, Conflict, and Conundrums of Thai Studies, July 15-18, 2017, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Edited by ICTS 13 Conference Secretariat. RCSD, Mar. 2018, pp. 1600-14. https://icts13.chiangmai.cmu.ac.th/documents/FIINAL_R-SRI_NEW_MARCH_2019.pdf
  • Singpliam, Porranee. “Reversed Realities: National Pride and Visual Coding.” IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 2, no.1, 2017, pp. 56-68. https://doi.org/10.22492/ijcs.2.1.05
 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION

  • Porranee Singpliam. (June 2024). Crony Patriarchy as mediated by Thai Popular Press. 第58回 アメリカ学会年次大会 部会・シンポジウム等報告要旨提出フォーマット(The 58th JAAS Annual Meeting: Symposium/Panel/Workshop). Presenting in Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Porranee Singpliam. (May 2023). Sexual Politics in YouTube: Shifting Values in Femininities and Women's Empowerment. The 13th Asian Conference on Cultural Studies (ACCS 2023). Presented in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Porranee Singpliam and Treepon Kirdnark. (May 2022). Mia-Farang on YouTube: (Re)defining Thai Womanhood in the Network Society. 14th International Conference on Thai Studies: Thailand at a Global Turning Point. Virtual Presentation, Kyoto University, Japan.
  • Porranee Singpliam. (September 2020). Social Media: A Space Empowered. The Case Analysis of This is Me Vatanika. Que(e)ring Gender Conference. Virtual Presentation, University of Oxford, UK.
  • Porranee Singpliam. (September 2019). “Social Media, Bodily Ideals, and the Gendered Bodies”. Gender (Non)Conformity Conference. Presented at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, UK.
  • Porranee Singpliam. (February 2018). “Beyond the Body?: Materialized Body under Patriarchal Gaze”. East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference. Presented at University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, USA.
  • Porranee Singpliam. (January 2018). “Class-based Bodies and Counterhegemonic Femininities”. SEC/AAS (Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies) Conference. Presented at University of South Carolina, USA.
  • Porranee Singpliam. (July 2017). “Multifarious Functions of the Influence of the Others: Reversed Gender Roles in Suratnari”. 13th International Conference on Thai Studies Conference: Globalized Thailand? Connectivity, Conflict, and Conundrums of Thai Studies. Presented in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
  • Porranee Singpliam. (April 2017). “Development Discourse and Gender Relations in the 1980s Thailand”. International Conference on Arts, Social Sciences, History and Interdisciplinary Studies. Presented in Kyoto, Japan.
  • Porranee Singpliam.​ (January 2017). “Women in the Seventies Thailand”. Tomorrow People Organization's 8th Annual Women's Leadership and Empowerment Conference. Presented in Bangkok, Thailand.