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The Arts Division Year 2006

Modernism, Twentieth-Century History and Literature in English (and in English Translation), Central and Eastern European Literature in English (and in English Translation)

Dr. Verita Sriratana

Lecturer at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

Verita Sriratana, a former recipient of the Anandamahidol Foundation Scholarship under the Royal Patronage of HM the King of Thailand and a former recipient of the Slovak National Scholarship, earned her Bachelor of Arts (First class honours; gold medal for highest achievement) degree in English from Chulalongkorn University in 2005, her Master of Arts (Distinction) degree in Colonial/Postcolonial Literature in English from the University of Warwick in 2007 with a dissertation entitled “Historical Fiction and Postcolonialism”, and her Doctor of Philosophy degree in English from the University of St Andrews in 2013 with a thesis entitled “‘Making Room’ for One's Own: Virginia Woolf and Technology of Place”. From 2013 to 2014, she took up the position of postdoctoral researcher (Vedecká pracovníčka) at the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Comenius University in Bratislava. Verita is currently a lecturer at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. Her book entitled Particular Modernity/Modernism: Locating Modernist Moments in Czech and Slovak Literature has recently been published by Comenius University in Bratislava.

  • DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY January 2013 English
    School of English University of St Andrews

Thesis Title: “Making Room” for One’s Own: Virginia Woolf and Technology of Place Website: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/english/people/postgraduates/PhD/sriratana/

  • MASTER OF ARTS October 2007 With Distinction Colonial/Postcolonial Literature in English Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies University of Warwick

MA Dissertation Title: Historical Fiction and Postcolonialism: Analysis of Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land and David Dabydeen’s The Counting House

  • BACHELOR OF ARTS March 2005 First-Class Honours Gold Medal for Highest Achievement English Minor Subjects: History and Philosophy Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

2015

  • Guest Lecturer delivering a talk on “I am also looking forward to studying life in Bohemia: José Rizal and Lessons from Central Europe” at ASEAN of the Commoners: The Centre for ASEAN Studies at Chiang Mai University’s Annual Conference at Uniserv, Chiang Mai University

  • Guest Speaker leading a post-performance discussion on “One Night Stand: Contemporary solo dance performance by Vidura Amranand” at Democrazy Theatre Studio, Bangkok

  • Guest Lecturer delivering a talk on “Europe and the Cold War: Totalitarianism and Crisis in Eastern Europe” at the Faculty of Political Science, Thammasart University

  • Guest Speaker leading a discussion on “Postdoctoral Research in Humanities and Science” at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, as part of the Postgraduate Symposium organised by the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Library Science, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

  • Guest Speaker leading a discussion on “Academic Networking” at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, as part of the Postgraduate Symposium organised by the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Library Science, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

  • Guest Speaker leading a discussion on Katherine Mansfield’s short story entitled “Something Childish but very Natural” at Halfglass Reading Group, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

  • Guest Lecturer delivering a talk on “Why Criticism?” at Speedy Grandma Art Gallery, Bangkok

2014

  • Guest Lecturer delivering a talk on “Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own” at Reading by the Lake event, organised by the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities, Chiang Mai University, in collaboration with Chiang Mai University’s Centre for Asian Studies and Ranlao bookshop

  • Guest Lecturer delivering a talk on “Milan Kundera’s The Joke” at the Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University

  • Guest Lecturer delivering a talk on “Milan Kundera’s The Joke” at the 4th This Is Not Fiction talk and screening series at The Reading Room, Bangkok

  • Guest Lecturer delivering a talk on “A Room of One’s Own: From the Female Anonymous towards A Room of Her Own: Virginia Woolf’s Views on Women Writers” at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University, which is part of a seminar project entitled “A Room of One’s Own: How Is a Woman’s Private Room Related to Literature by Women Writers?” organised by the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University

  • Guest Lecturer delivering a talk on “Particular Modernity/Transnational Modernism: Franz Kafka, Central Europe and China” at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, Poland, an event organised by the Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Polish Philosophical Association, Poznań Division

  • Guest Speaker delivering a talk on “International Mobility: Practical Tips and Cultural Experience through the Eyes of a Non-EU Researcher” at the “International Mobility: Practical, Social and Cultural Aspects and Experiences (not only) from Slovakia” Panel at the EURAXESS: Mobilise Your Research Career at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, an event financially supported by the European Commission and the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of Slovak Republic

  • Guest Lecturer delivering a talk on “Particular(ising) ‘High Modernism’/Transnational Modernity: Franz Kafka and Theoretical Periodisation” at the Intercultural Approach to ELT class session, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic

  • Guest Lecturer conducting a workshop on “Critical Thinking, Academic Writing and Oral Presentation” at the Odborný jazyk (Specialised Language) class session, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic

2013

  • Guest Speaker at the informal discussion meeting with the current and past Slovak National Scholarship holders at the Science and Technology Week in the Slovak Republic event organised by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic in cooperation with the Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information, National Centre for the Science and Technology Popularisation in the Society, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

  • Guest Lecturer delivering a talk on “Postcolonial Modernism: Virginia Woolf and the British Empire” at the Institute of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Prešov University, Prešov, Slovak Republic

  • Guest Lecturer delivering a talk on “Mrs Dalloway visits the British Empire Exhibition: Understanding Virginia Woolf, Modernism and Postcolonialism” at the Realist and Modernist Literature class session, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic

  • Guest Lecturer delivering a talk on “‘Make it New, Make it Strange’: Virginia Woolf and Modernism” at the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, University of Žilina, Slovak Republic

  • Guest Lecturer delivering a talk on “British Modernism, Nationalism and Empire: Virginia Woolf's ‘Thunder at Wembley’” at the Department of English Language and Literature , Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

  • Guest Lecturer delivering a talk on “British and Slovak Literary Modernism” at the Alef o Discussion Evening, Stanica Žilina-Záriečie, Žilina, Slovak Republic

  • Guest Lecturer delivering a talk on “Virginia Woolf and the Modernist Movement” at the Department of British and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of SS Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovak Republic

  • Guest Lecturer delivering a talk on “Higher Education in Thailand: An Overview of Chulalongkorn University” at the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic

  • Guest Lecturer delivering a talk on “Interculturalism in Thailand: A Historical Perspective” at the Intercultural Approach to ELT class session, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic

  • Guest Lecturer delivering a talk on “Virginia Woolf: An Overview” at the Realist and Modernist Literature class session, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic

  • Guest Lecturer delivering a talk on “‘When life is haunted, not by Death in the fullness of time, but by Death's fast-encroaching shadow’: Heidegger's Concept of ‘Being-towards-death’ in the Works of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf” at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

2012

  • Interviewer in a dialogue session with Amitav Ghosh at the Bharatasamay International Conference on Indian Writing in English, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

  • Guest lecturer delivering a talk on “‘It is nature that is the ruin of Wembley’:Virginia Woolf and the British Empire Exhibition” at the English Department, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

2011

  • Guest lecturer delivering a talk on “‘My Receptacle of a Mind’: Spatial Metaphors and the Concept of ‘Atmosphere’ in Virginia Woolf’s Essays” at the English Department, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

  • Guest lecturer delivering a talk on “‘My Receptacle of a Mind’: Spatial Metaphors in Virginia Woolf’s Essays” at the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic

  • Guest lecturer delivering a talk on “‘Martin was in the jungle alone, and the sun was sinking’: The Weather, Place and Culture” at the Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovak Republic

  • Guest lecturer delivering a talk on “Driving and Flying with Virginia Woolf: Understanding Modernism through Place and Movement” at the Faculty of Education, University of Trnava, Slovak Republic

2007

  • Simultaneous Interpreter for the 3rd International Conference on Gross National Happiness at World Views Make a Difference: Towards Global Transformation Conference organised by Chulalongkorn University in collaboration with the Centre for Bhutan Studies, the Sathirakoses-Nagapradipa Foundation and the Garden of Fruition, Thailand

  • Simultaneous Interpreter for the Thailand Knowledge Park’s annual seminar and workshop on “How to Write a Successful Children’s Book”, Thailand

  • Simultaneous Interpreter for the 1st APEC Automotive Dialogue – IPR Seminar on “Best Practices of Intellectual Property Rights Protection in the Automotive Sector” organised by the Office of Industrial Economics, Ministry of Industry, Department of Intellectual Property, Ministry of Commerce, the Thai Automotive Industry Association and the IPR Work Group under the APEC Automotive Dialogue, Thailand

  • Simultaneous Interpreter for Discovering Ramanya Desa: History, Identity, Culture, Language and Performing Arts: The 1st International Conference on Mon History and Culture held by the Euro-Burma Office, the James H.W. Thompson Foundation, and the Mekong Research Unit, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

2005

  • Staff Editor and Simultaneous Interpreter for the International Buddhist Conference on the United Nations Day of Vesak at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Thailand

  • Research Assistant to Associate Professor Surapeepan Chatraporn, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. The Research “Food, Emotion, and the Empowerment of Women in Contemporary Fiction by Women Writers” was published in book form by the Faculty of Arts in 2007 (2005-2006)

Book

2015

  • Particular Modernity/Modernism: Locating Modernist Moments in Czech and Slovak Literature. Faculty of Education. Bratislava: Comenius University.

Articles

2015

  • “‘Diversity in Unity’: Chulalong University-Visegrád 4 Collaboration Project”. The Visegrád Group and Thailand: Diversity in Unity. Booklet Published by the Centre for European Studies at Chulalongkorn University on the Occasion of “Diversity in Unity: Central Europe’s Past and Present”: The Visegrád Open Day Lecture and Launch of the Chulalongkorn University-Visegrád 4 Collaboration Project (14 May 2015) Maha Chulalongkorn Building, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand: 11-13.

  • “The Visegrád Group and Thailand: Transcending the ‘Freezer-Purgatory’ Dilemma”. The Visegrád Group and Thailand: Diversity in Unity. Booklet Published by the Centre for European Studies at Chulalongkorn University on the Occasion of “Diversity in Unity: Central Europe’s Past and Present”: The Visegrád Open Day Lecture and Launch of the Chulalongkorn University-Visegrád 4 Collaboration Project. 14 May 2015 Maha Chulalongkorn Building, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand: 36-39.

  • “จุดสุดยอดแห่ง One Night Stand กับ Citizenfour และจุดยืน Open Relationship แบบวา สลาฟ ฮาเวล” [“The Orgasm of One Night Stand with Citizenfour and Václav Havel’s Stance on Open Relationship”] ประชาไท. (30 มีนาคม 2558) http://www.prachatai.com/journal/2015/03/58630

2014

  • “‘Because Slovaks are the best people in the world and the Slovak language is the most beautiful language in the world’: Defamiliarising the Slovak ‘Imagined Community’ in Samko Tále’s Cemetery Book”. Ars Aeterna. Vol. 6 (Issue 2): 39–47. ISSN (Online) 1337-9291, DOI: 10.2478/aa-2014-0012, December 2014 http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/aa.2014.6.issue-2/aa-2014-0012/aa-2014-0012.xml?format=INT

  • “โบว์ไตรรงค์อันใหญ่ กระเป๋าลายรักชาติสดใส นกหวีดหลากสีไฉไล ภาพสะท้อนจริยธรรมที่ใฝ่ฝัน?” [“Big Thai Flag Hair Ribbons, Stylish Patriotic Bags, Chic Colourful Whistles: Reflection and Projection of Ethical Fantasy?] ประชาไท. (30 มกราคม 2557) http://prachatai.com/journal/2014/01/51512

2013

  • “‘Why should we welcome the King of England? Didn’t Parnell himself…’: James Joyce’s (Re-)Vision of ‘Englishness’ and Virginia Woolf’s (Re-)Vision of ‘Irishness’ as Postcolonial Symptoms”. Revisiting James Joyce. Eds. Dagmar Blight and Mária Kostelníková. Offenbach: KIRSCH-Verlag, 2013, 33-47. ISBN 978-3-933586-96-4

  • “That Alluring Land (Tá zem vábna) Which They Both Have Never Seen: Imaging and Imagining America in the Words of Timrava and Virginia Woolf”. Ars Aeterna. Vol. 5. No. 1. Word and Image in Contemporary Culture. Nitra: Constantine the Philosopher University, 2013: 19-33. ISSN: 1337-9291.

  • “มาเรีย คลารา Inang Pilipinas: Subaltern และ เรื่องราวเบื้องหลังชุดสตรีประจำชาติฟิลิปปินส์ที่โลกลืม” [“Maria Clara, Inang Pilipinas: Subaltern and the Story behind the Philippines National Costume”]. ประชาไท. (15 มกราคม 2556) http://prachatai.com/journal/2013/01/44691

2012

  • “‘Like Father, (Un)like Daughter’: Virginia Woolf the Essayist on/amidst Sir Leslie Stephen’s Victorian ‘Atmosphere’”. From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria: Readings in 18th and 19th Century British Literature and Culture. Vol. 3. Eds. Grażyna Bystydzieńska and Emma Harris. Warszawa: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Ośrodek Studiów Brytyjskich, 2012: 455-462.

  • “Il Deserto Rosso (Red Desert): อับจนหนทาง นาวาอับปาง สิทธิสตรีถูกทิ้งขว้าง กลาง ‘ทะเลทรายสีแดง’” [Film Review: “Il Deserto Rosso (Red Desert)”]. ประชาไท. (1 ธันวาคม 2555) http://prachatai.com/journal/2012/12/43980

  • “The Taste of Money: กังนัมกลลวง รสรักเงินร้อนรุมเร้า แรงงานแรงเงา แผดเผาชนชั้นสังคม” [Film Review: “The Taste of Money”]. ประชาไท (17 พฤศจิกายน 2555). http://prachatai.com/journal/2012/11/43704

  • “‘In so narrow a space you must choose your note and strike it firmly’: Virginia Woolf’s Essays as Spaces of Juxtaposition and Creative Appropriation”. Ex-changes: Comparative Studies in British and American Cultures. Ed. Edyta Lorek-Jezińska and Katarzyna Więckowska. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012: 21-36. ISBN: 1-4438-4159-5

  • “‘Martin was in the jungle alone, and the sun was sinking’: The Weather, Culture and Identity in Virginia Woolf’s The Years”. Identities in Transition. Ed. Georgina Tsolidis. E-Book. Oxford: Inter-disciplinary Press, 2012: 159-166. ISBN 978-84888-082-5 https://www.interdisciplinarypress.net/online-store/ebooks/diversity-and-recognition/identities-in-transition 2011

  • “‘My Receptacle of a Mind’: Spatial Metaphors in Virginia Woolf’s Essays”. Studies in Foreign Language Education. Vol. 3 (December 2011). Ed. Gabriela Lojová and Mária Kostelníková. Institute of Philological Studies, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Comenius University, Bratislava in cooperation with Slavisches Institut, Universität zu Köln. Offenbach am Main: Offset- & Digitaldruck Lindemann, 2011. ISBN 978-3-933586-85-8

  • “‘Carrying consciousness like a feather on the top, marking the direction, not controlling it’: Virginia Woolf and Buddhist Consciousness”. Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts. Ed. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012: 88-98. ISBN (10): 1-4438-3458-0, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-3458-2

  • “‘It was an uncertain spring’: Reading the Weather in The Years” in Virginia Woolf and the Natural World: Selected Papers from the Twentieth International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Ed. Kristin Czarnecki and Carrie Rohman. Clemson: Clemson University Digital Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-9835339-0-0 http://www.clemson.edu/caah/cedp/cudp/pubs/vwcon/20.html

  • “‘Unleashing the Underdog’: Technology of Place and Virginia Woolf’s Flush” in Voices: Postgraduate Perspectives on Inter-disciplinary. Ed. Kathryn Vincent and Juan Fernando Botero-Garcia. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. ISBN13:978-1-4438-3183-3, ISBN: 1-4438-3183-2

2009

  • “A Concise History of Samaggi Samagom” in the Samaggi Samagom brochure and webpage www.samaggi.org/about_us

  • “‘Unleashing the Underdog’: Technology of Place and Virginia Woolf’s Flush” in FORUM: The University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts http://www.forumjournal.org/site/issue/08 ISSN 1749-9771

2008

  • “ทอมไทยและเทศ” ในจอและแผ่นกระดาษ: การวิพากษ์แนวคิดอัตลักษณ์ความเป็นชายขอบ (Marginality) ของ “ทอม” ในงานวรรณกรรมและภาพยนตร์ยอดนิยมของไทยและตะวันตก (“‘Thai and Foreign Tomboys on Screen and Paper’: An Analysis of the Marginal Identity of Tomboys in Popular Film and Literature”). รายงานการประชุมประจำปีเพศวิถีศึกษาในสังคมไทย ครั้งที่ 1 หัวข้อ: วิพากษ์องค์ความรู้และธรรมเนียมปฏิบัติเรื่องเพศวิถีศึกษาในสังคมไทย. ธวัชชัย พาชื่น และพิมพวัลย์ บุญมงคล, บรรณาธิการ. สำนักงานเลขานุการจัดการประชุมประจำปีเพศวิถีศึกษาในสังคมไทย ครั้งที่ 1โครงการจัดตั้งสำนักงานศึกษานโยบายสาธารณสุขฯ คณะสังคมศาสตร์และมนุษยศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยมหิดล. กรุงเทพฯ: โรงพิมพ์เจริญดีการพิมพ์, 2551: 147-157.

  • “Literature and the Construction of Identity in Alistair MacLeod’s No Great Mischief” in Thoughts: Journal of the Department of English, Chulalongkorn University http://www.arts.chula.ac.th/~english/documents/thoughts08.html

  • “In Memoriam: Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana Kroma Luang Naradhiwas Rajanagarinda” printed on the wall of the Jim Thompson House and Museum, Bangkok

2007

  • “A ‘Right Poet’ in his Means, (a ‘Modern Poet’ in his Ends): John Donne and the Concept of the ‘Right Poet’ in Sir Philip Sidney’s An Apology for Poetry” in Thoughts: Journal of the Department of English, Chulalongkorn University http://www.arts.chula.ac.th/~english/documents/thoughts07.html

Book Reviews

2015

  • “Virginia Woolf and December 1910: Studies in Rhetoric and Context Makiko Minow-Pinkney, ed.; Virginia Woolf and the Problem of the Subject: Feminine Writing in the Major Novels by Makiko Minow-Pinkney”. Woolf Studies Annual. Vol. 21 (2015). New York City; Westchester: Pace University Press, 2015: 166-171. ISBN: 978-1-935625-19-3 ISSN: 1080-9317

2014

  • “New Revision of Modernist Literature and the Desire for Life in Death: A Review on Martin Hägglund’s Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov”. Thoughts: Journal of the Department of English, Chulalongkorn University. (2013): 133-135.

2013

2010

2008

Book Translation

2010

  • Tantisiriwat, Worachai. H.M. King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s Ingenious Concept of ‘Sufficiency’ through Architecture. Translated from Thai to English by Verita Sriratana. Sufficient Architecture Series. The Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage (ASA) and Siam Cement Group (SCG). Bangkok: Bangkok Printing, 2010.

2007

  • นิคอเละ ระเด่นอาหมัด. ไข่นุ้ยกับแพะน้อยในวันฮารีรายอ. Harirayo Day for Kai Nui and the Kid. แปลโดย วิศรา วิจิตรวาทกร และวริตตา ศรีรัตนา. สมุดภาพนิทานพื้นบ้าน-ภาคใต้ 2 ภาษา (ไทย-อังกฤษ). กรุงเทพฯ: บริษัท แปลน ฟอร์ คิดส์ จำกัด, 2550.

  • นพดล ทัศวา. เมืองน่าอยู่ที่หนูรัก. The Neighborly City that I Love. แปลโดย วิศรา วิจิตรวาทกร และวริตตา ศรีรัตนา. สมุดภาพนิทานพื้นบ้าน-ภาคใต้ 2 ภาษา (ไทย-อังกฤษ). กรุงเทพฯ : บริษัท แปลน ฟอร์ คิดส์ จำกัด, 2550.

  • นพดล ทัศวาและบุญส่ง ลอยสุวรรณ์. เปาะแซเดาะกับซามะ. Pawsaedaw and Sama. แปลโดย วิศรา วิจิตรวาทกร และวริตตา ศรีรัตนา. สมุดภาพนิทานพื้นบ้าน-ภาคใต้ 2 ภาษา (ไทย-อังกฤษ). กรุงเทพฯ : บริษัท แปลน ฟอร์ คิดส์ จำกัด, 2550.

  • นพดล ทัศวาและสำราญ เพ็ชรชัย. ไก้ โกง มูสัง. The Rooster Outwits Musang. แปลโดย วิศรา วิจิตรวาทกร และวริตตา ศรีรัตนา.สมุดภาพนิทานพื้นบ้าน-ภาคใต้ 2 ภาษา (ไทย-อังกฤษ). กรุงเทพฯ: บริษัท แปลน ฟอร์ คิดส์ จำกัด, 2550.

  • สุนันท์ แก้วรัตน์. ซีงอ เจ้าป่าผู้กล้าหาญ. Singaw: The Brave Jungle Ruler. แปลโดย วิศรา วิจิตรวาทกร และวริตตา ศรีรัตนา. สมุดภาพนิทานพื้นบ้าน-ภาคใต้ 2 ภาษา (ไทย-อังกฤษ). กรุงเทพฯ: บริษัท แปลน ฟอร์ คิดส์ จำกัด, 2550.

  • สำราญ เพ็ชรชัย. จารอกีตอ. Jarogeetaw. แปลโดย วิศรา วิจิตรวาทกร และวริตตา ศรีรัตนา. สมุดภาพนิทานพื้นบ้าน-ภาคใต้ 2 ภาษา (ไทย-อังกฤษ). กรุงเทพฯ : บริษัท แปลน ฟอร์ คิดส์ จำกัด, 2550

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Presentations in English

2014

  • “‘You Mustn’t Take Literature So Seriously’: Michal Viewegh’s Bringing up Girls in Bohemia (1994) as a Comically Serious/Seriously Comical Revenge on Postmodernism, Failures of Education and Capitalist ‘Activists of Convenience’” at Humanities and Social Sciences: Multidiscipline beyond Frontiers—The 8th International HUSOC Conference at the Faculty of Humanities, Kasetsart University, Thailand

  • “Particular Modernity/Transnational Modernism: The Czech and Slovak Case [from a Thai perspective]” at Transnational Modernisms: The 2nd Australian Modernist Studies Network Conference, University of Sydney, Australia

  • “Eastern Europe, the Artful Devil of Capitalist Tourism and the Devilish Art of Historical Embalmment as Utopian Dystopia in Jáchym Topol’s The Devil’s Workshop” at Space, Race, Bodies—Geocorpographies of the City, Nation and Empire: The 8th Annual Somatechnics Conference at the University of Otago, New Zealand, an event organised by the Department of Media, Film and Communication (MFCO), the Postcolonial Studies Research Network (PSRN), the Somatechnics Research Network (University of Arizona) and the Sexuality Research Group at the University of Otago

  • “‘Do as you please, comrades, make a dog of me, spit on me too’ : Initiation Ceremonies, the Rape of History and the Ravages of Political Fanaticism in Milan Kundera’s The Joke” at Changing Humanities in a Changing World International Conference: The 8th Humanities Research Forum in Thailand, organised by the Faculty of Humanities, Chiang Mai University, Thailand

  • “‘That is why I am free to dream of Prague’: A Critique on Authorial Nationality Discourse in Laurent Binet’s HHhH” at A View from Elsewhere International Conference, a part of the Literature and Film without Borders: Dislocation and Relocation in Pluralistic Space research project funded by the European Social Fund and the state budget of the Czech Republic, organised by Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

  • “‘I do not believe in the Bolshevik Cult’ [‘ข้าพเจ้าไม่เชื่อในลัทธิบอลเชวิค’]: The Russian Revolution as Uncanny idée fixe in Arkartdamkeung Rapheephat’s Views on the Circus of Thai Education and on the Prophetic (Broken) Dreams of the Siamese Revolution” at ENITS Scholarship Research Presentation 2014: Empowering Network for International Thai Studies (ENITS) Project, organised by the Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University

  • “‘But that is perhaps why I can talk of where I want to be without always being dragged back to my starting point’: Rethinking and Re(-)Membering East-Central European Histories of Violence and Dissidence through Historical ‘Infranovels’” at Dissent!: Histories and Meanings of Opposition from 1968 to the Present Conference organised by the Research Group in International Studies (RGIS), Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark

2013

  • “‘The wall was to be a protection for centuries’: The Problem of Spatialisation of Time in Franz Kafka’s ‘The Great Wall of China’” at Travelling Narratives: Modernity and the Spatial Imaginary International Symposium, organised by the English Department, University of Zurich, Switzerland

  • “A ‘Laboratory of Twilight’ Versus a ‘Pub in Bořivojova Street’: Demystifying the Czech Myth and Decentring Central Europe in Emil Hakl’s Of Kids and Parents (O rodičích a dětech)” at The Second International Conference: “Re-Inventing Eastern Europe” organised by Euroacademia at the Grand Majestic Plaza Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic

  • “‘Because Slovaks are the best people in the world and the Slovak language is the most beautiful language in the world’: Defamiliarising the Slovak ‘Imagined Community’ in Samko Tále’s Cemetery Book” at Lure of the Magical: Imagination and Contemporary Arts and Literature Conference at the Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra, Slovak Republic

  • “‘We agreed to call ourselves the Union of Higher Beings’: Timrava and the Dawn of Slovak Modernism” at Alternative Modernisms: An International Interdisciplinary Conference at Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University

  • “‘Why should we welcome the King of England? Didn’t Parnell himself…’: James Joyce’s (Re-)Vision of ‘Englishness’ and Virginia Woolf’s (Re-)Vision of ‘Irishness’ as Postcolonial Symptoms” at the James Joyce Seminar, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Comenius University in Bratislava

2012

  • “Entering Anita Desai’s ‘Realm of Freedom’: Technology of Place and the (Re-) Mapping of Self and ‘India’ in Games at Twilight” at the Bharatasamay International Conference on Indian Writing in English, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

  • “‘When life is haunted, not by Death in the fullness of time, but by Death’s fast-encroaching shadow’: Dismembering/Re(-)membering Life and Death in Katherine Mansfield’s “The Fly” and Virginia Woolf’s “The Death of the Moth” at In the Footsteps of Katherine Mansfield International Symposium, Crans-Montana, Switzerland, hosted by the British Residents Association, the English Department of the University of Geneva and the Katherine Mansfield Society

  • “‘Because the waiting is a sort of Heaven, too, darling’: Travelling and Transitory Places in ‘Something Childish but very Natural’” at Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe Conference, the Faculty of Arts and Letters, Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovak Republic

2011

  • “‘Like Father, (Un)like Daughter’: Virginia Woolf the Essayist on/amidst Sir Leslie Stephen’s Victorian ‘Atmosphere’” at From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria: Readings in 18th and 19th century British Literature and Culture Conference, the British Studies Centre of the University of Warsaw, Poland

  • “America, ‘That Alluring Land’ Which They Both Have Never Seen: Technology of Place in the Works of Timrava and Virginia Woolf” at Literary Dimensions: Reading Time and Space International Postgraduate Conference at the Faculty of Humanities, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland

  • “‘A Region of Very Strong Sensations’: Virginia Woolf’s Marginalia as Spaces/Non-spaces of/in ‘Becoming’” at Contradictory Woolf: The 21st Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, University of Glasgow

  • “‘Carrying consciousness like a feather on the top, marking the direction, not controlling it’: Virginia Woolf and Buddhist Consciousness” at the 4th International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts, University of Lincoln

  • “‘In so narrow a space you must choose your note and strike it firmly’: Virginia Woolf’s Essays as Spaces of Juxtaposition and Creative Appropriation” at In Comparison: Juxtapositions, Correspondences and Differentiations in English Studies: The 20th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Nicholas Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland

  • “‘It is far too hot to give any sensible coherent criticism of your paper’: Virginia Woolf’s Letters as ‘Living’ Literary Criticism” at Picture This: postcards and letters beyond text Conference, University of Sussex

  • “‘Martin was in the jungle alone, and the sun was sinking’: The Weather, Culture and Identity in Virginia Woolf’s The Years” at the 4th Global Conference on Interculturalism, Meaning and Identity, Prague, Czech Republic

2010

  • “‘Carrying consciousness like a feather on the top, marking the direction, not controlling it’: Migrancy in Virginia Woolf’s Marginalia and Essays” at Migrancy and the Text Postgraduate Conference, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Kingston University

  • “‘It was an uncertain spring’: The Ambivalent Weather as Technology of Place in Virginia Woolf’s The Years” at the Postgraduate Forum, School of English, University of St Andrews

  • “‘It was an uncertain spring’: Reading the Weather in The Years” at Virginia Woolf and the Natural World: The 20th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference, Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky

  • “‘For the Love of Wisdom’: A Proposal to Make Philosophy a Compulsory Subject in Mathayom 1-3 Curricula” at Collaboration between Government, Private, Industrial and Research Sectors for Thailand's Sustainable Development: The 3rd Annual Samaggi Academic Conference 2010, Imperial College, London

2009

  • “‘A Most Bewildering and Whirligig State of Mind’: Social Dreaming and Alternative Utopian Space in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando” at The Artist Under the Microscope Post-war Conference at Ustinov College, University of Durham

  • “‘A Most Bewildering and Whirligig State of Mind’: Social Dreaming and Alternative Utopian Space in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando” at the Postgraduate Forum, School of English, University of St Andrews

  • “‘A Most Bewildering and Whirligig State of Mind’: Social Dreaming and Alternative Utopian Space in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando” at Crossing the Borders-Transgressing the Boundaries in Literatures in English International Conference, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, University of Prešov, Slovak Republic

  • “‘Unleashing the Underdog’: Technology of Place in Virginia Woolf’s Flush” at Moving Forward: The 6th Annual College of Arts and Social Sciences Postgraduate Conference, University of Aberdeen

  • “‘Unleashing the Underdog’: Technology of Place in Virginia Woolf’s Flush” at Woolf and the City: The 19th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference, Fordham University, Lincoln Centre, New York

  • “‘Unleashing the Underdog’: Reading ‘Place’ as Text and Revolutionary Tool in Virginia Woolf’s Flush at Textual Revolutions: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference, Department of English Studies, University of Stirling

  • “‘I’m going to Bangk(c)o(c)k’: On the Technology and Construction of Place” at Solutions for Thailand: How can we change Thailand in the next decade?: The 2nd Annual Samaggi Academic Conference, University of Cambridge

2008

  • “‘Unleashing the Underdog’: Technology of Place in Virginia Woolf’s Flush” at the Postgraduate Forum, School of English, University of St Andrews

  • “‘Thai and Foreign Tomboys on Screen and Paper’: An Analysis of the Marginal Identity of Tomboys in Popular Film and Literature” at the CUASEAN International Conference on “Language, Literary Works and Culture in ASEAN: Diversity in the Unity”

2006

“A ‘Right Poet’ in His Means (a ‘Modern Poet’ in His Ends): John Donne and the Concept of the ‘Right Poet’ in Sir Philip Sidney’s An Apology for Poetry” on the English department’s annual academic forum

Lectures/Presentations in Thai

2015
“From London in 1938, Prague in 1948, New Delhi in 2012 (to Bangkok in 2015)—How Far Have We Come?: The Implications of Gang Rape in Virginia Woolf, Milan Kundera and the ‘India’s Daughter’ Documentary” 2012
“‘Air Conditioners, America, Flies and Moths’: Martin Heidegger’s Concepts of Space, Technology and Death in the Literature of the Twentieth Century” at the Department of Philosophy, Chulalongkorn University

2008

  • “Historical Fiction in a Postcolonial Perspective” at the Ashram Vijaya Project Session, Chulalongkorn University

  • “‘Thai and Foreign Tomboys on Screen and Paper’: An Analysis of the Marginal Identity of Tomboys in Popular Film and Literature” at the “Inside/Out in Queer Studies” Seminar organised by the Department of Comparative Literature, Chulalongkorn University

  • “‘Thai and Foreign Tomboys on Screen and Paper’: An Analysis of the Marginal Identity of Tomboys in Popular Film and Literature” at the 1st Annual Conference on Sexuality Studies in Thai Society

SCHOLARSHIPS

2014

  • Recipient of the Grant for Development of New Faculty Staff, Ratchadaphiseksomphot Endowment Fund, Chulalongkorn University to present an academic paper entitled “Eastern Europe, the Artful Devil of Capitalist Tourism and the Devilish Art of Historical Embalmment as Utopian Dystopia in Jáchym Topol’s The Devil’s Workshop” at The 8th Annual Somatechnics Conference: Space, Race, Bodies—Geocorpographies of the City, Nation and Empire at the University of Otago, New Zealand
  • Recipient of the Empowering Network for International Thai Studies (ENITS) Project Scholarship, Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, to conduct a research on the topic of “‘I do not believe in the Bolshevik Cult’ [‘ข้าพเจ้าไม่เชื่อในลัทธิบอลเชวิค’]: The Russian Revolution as Uncanny idée fixe in Arkartdamkeung Rapheephat’s Views on the Circus of Thai Education and on the Prophetic (Broken) Dreams of the Siamese Revolution”

2011

  • Recipient of the National Scholarship of the Slovak Republic for the Support of Mobility of Lecturers and Researchers as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Comenius University in Bratislava

2010

  • Recipient of the Russell Trust Award to conduct a two-month research at the Berg Collection, New York Public Library, and the Burney Collection, British Library, on the topic of “‘Directly I Put Pen to Paper’: Writing as Virginia Woolf’s Technology of Place”, which is a study of Virginia Woolf and the essay tradition

2006

  • Recipient of the Ananda Mahidol Foundation Scholarship under the Royal Patronage of His Majesty the King of Thailand to study for the Master of Arts degree in Colonial/Postcolonial Literature in English at the University of Warwick and for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in English at the University of St Andrews

2004

  • Recipient of the UMAP (University Mobility in Asia and the Pacific) Scholarship to study English literature at Griffith University, Australia

AWARDS (Selected)

2010

  • Recipient of “Best Academic Paper” Plaque and Award from Thailand’s Ministry of Science and Technology, Samaggi Samagom and the Royal Thai Embassy for essay entitled “‘For the Love of Wisdom’: A Proposal to Make Philosophy a Compulsory Subject in Mathayom 1-3 Curricula” at Collaboration between Government, Private, Industrial and Research Sectors for Thailand's Sustainable Development: The 3rd Annual Samaggi Academic Conference 2010, Imperial College, London

2006

  • First-prize winner of Associate Professor Dr ML Ananchanok Ladavalya Panichaputt Award for English Poetry Competition for “Lotus-Picking”

2005

  • Winner of the Student of the Year Award for Best Academic Achievement and Extracurricular Activities Participation, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
  • Winner of the Faculty of Arts Students’ Popular Vote, Chulalongkorn University

2004

  • Winner of the Student of the Year Award for Best Academic Performance and Extracurricular Activities Participation, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
  • First-prize winner of Associate Professor Dr ML Ananchanok Ladavalya Panichaputt Award for English Poetry Competition for “So This is Life”

2003

  • Third-prize winner of Associate Professor Dr ML Ananchanok Ladavalya Panichaputt Award for English Short Story Competition for “In Worthington’s Shoes”
  • Recipient of the Chulalongkorn University’s Hall of Fame Medal

2001

  • Third-prize winner of the Chulalongkorn Literary Club’s Thai Short Story Competition for “Prasong’s Shoes” (in Thai)
  • Certificates of Academic Achievement and Scholarships for Outstanding Student of the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, for four consecutive years (2001-2005)