BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED

  1. Ancuta, Katarzyna. Where Angels Fear to Hover: Between the Gothic Disease and the Meataphysics of Horror. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2005. 205 pp.

BOOKS/COLLECTIONS CO-EDITED

  1. Ancuta, Katarzyna and Deimantas Valanciunas, eds. South Asian Gothic: Haunted Cultures, Histories and Media. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2022. Ancuta, Katarzyna and Mary J. Ainslie, eds. Thai Cinema: The Complete Guide. London: I.B. Tauris, 2018.
  2. Kalaga, Wojciech, Jacek Mydla and Katarzyna Ancuta, eds. Political Correctness: Mouth Wide Shut? Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009. 205 pp.

JOURNALS EDITED

  1. Ancuta, Katarzyna, Anita Lundberg, Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska, and Roger Osborne, eds. Special Issue on Tropical Gothic. eTropic 1 and 18.2 (June and December 2019).
  2. Ancuta, Katarzyna and Patrick F. Campos, eds. Special Issue on Locating Southeast Asian Horror Cinema. Plaridel 12.2. (August 2015).
  3. Ancuta, Katarzyna and Mary Ainslie, eds. Special Issue on Thai Horror Film. Horror Studies 5.2. (Oct 2014).
  4. Ancuta, Katarzyna, ed. Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 5.3. Special Issue. (Dec 2011).
  5. Ancuta, Katarzyna, ed. Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 5.2. (Oct 2011).
  6. Ancuta, Katarzyna, ed. Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 5.1. (Apr 2011).
  7. Ancuta, Katarzyna, ed. Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 4.2. (Oct 2010).
  8. Ancuta, Katarzyna, ed. Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 4.1. (Apr 2010).
  9. Ancuta, Katarzyna, ed. Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 3.1.-3.2. (Apr/Oct 2009).
  10. Ancuta, Katarzyna, ed. Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 2.2. (Oct 2008).
  11. Ancuta, Katarzyna, ed. Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 2.1. (Feb 2008).
  12. Ancuta, Katarzyna, ed. Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 1.2. (Oct 2007).
  13. Ancuta, Katarzyna, ed. Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 1.1. (Feb 2007).

ARTICLES/CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

  1. Ancuta, Katarzyna, “Fight Like a Girl: Jeeja Yanin as a Female Martial Arts Star.” Film Stardom in Southeast Asia. Jonathan Driskell. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 203-219.
  2. Ancuta, Katarzyna, “Detecting Ghosts: Anjaan: Special Crimes Unit as Global Gothic Television.” South Asian Gothic: Haunted Cultures, Histories and Media. Eds. Katarzyna Ancuta and Deimantas Valanciunas. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2022. 243-258.
  3. Ancuta, Katarzyna, “From Revenants to Vampires: The Transmedia Evolution of the Jiangshi.” The Transmedia Vampire: Essays on Technological Convergence and the Undead. Ed. Simon Bacon. Jefferson, NC: MacFarland, 2021. 146-161.
  4. Ancuta, Katarzyna, “Communal After-Living: Asian Ghosts and the City.” The New Urban Gothic: Global Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene. Eds. Holy-Gale Millette and Ruth Heholt. London: Palgrave, 2020. 173-190.
  5. Ancuta, Katarzyna, “Gothic and Installation Art: Spectral Materialities, Monstrous Ephemera.” Gothic and the Arts. Ed. David Punter. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. 82-106.
  6. Ancuta, Katarzyna, “Under the Dying Sun: Suicide and the Gothic in Modern Japanese Literature and Culture.” Suicide and the Gothic. Eds. Andrew Smith and William Hughes. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019.
  7. Ancuta, Katarzyna, “Asian Gothic.” Twenty-First Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Maisha Wester and Xavier Aldana-Reyes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. 249-262.
  8. Ancuta, Katarzyna, “Sadako Yamamura and the Ring Cycle (1991-present) – Asian Horror.” Horror: A Companion. Ed. Simon Bacon. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019. 151-158.
  9. Ancuta, Katarzyna, “Hong Kong Gothic: Category III Films as Gothic Cinema.” B-Movie Gothic: International Perspectives. Eds. Justin D. Edwards and Johan Höglund. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. 186-208.
  10. Ancuta, Katarzyna, “Otsuichi’s Goth (2002) – Japanese Gothic.” Gothic Reader. Ed. Simon Bacon. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018. 97-104.
  11. Ancuta, Katarzyna, “Strange Ghosts: Asian Reconfigurations of the Chinese Ghost Story.” The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story. Eds. Scott Brewster and Luke Thurston. London: Routledge, 2017. 260-269.
  12. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “The Return of the Dismembered: Representing Organ Trafficking in Asian Cinemas.” Neoliberal Gothic: International Gothic in the Neoliberal Age. Eds. Linnie Blake and Agnieszka Soltysik-Monnet. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. 83-103.
  13. Ancuta, Katarzyna. „Kino z duchami, czyli straszenie po tajsku. Współczesny tajski horror jako efekt globalizacji tajskiego przemysłu filmowego.” [“Ghost Cinema: Contemporary Thai Horror and the Globalization of Thai Film Industry”]. Cicha Eksplozja: Nowe Kino Azji Wschodniej i Południowo-Wschodniej. [Silent Explosion: New Cinema from East and Southeast Asia]. Jagoda Murczyńska. Kraków, Warszawa: ha!art, 2016. 99-119.
  14. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “That’s the Spirit: Horror Films as an Extension of Thai Spiritualism.” Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond: Narratives, Cultural Contexts, Audiences. Ed. Peter J. Bräunlein and Andrea Lauser. Leiden: Brill, 2016. 123-140.
  15. Ancuta, Katarzyna. "The Smiling Dead, or On the Empirical Impossibility of Thai Zombies." Vampires and Zombies: Transcultural Migrations and Transnational Interpretations. Dorothea Fischer-Hornung and Monika Mueller. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2016. 21-42.
  16. Ancuta, Katarzyna. "Surf's up: The Korean Wave and Thai Cinema." The Korean Wave in Southeast Asia: Consumption and Cultural Production. Eds. Mary J. Ainslie and Joanne B.Y. Lim. Petaling Jaya: SIRD, 2015. 31-52.
  17. Ancuta, Katarzyna. "Asian Gothic." The Cambridge Companion to Modern Gothic. Ed. Jerrold E. Hogle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 208-223.
  18. Ancuta, Katarzyna. "The Temporal City: Spectral Topographies and the Ephemeral Performance of Bangkok." "Hours Like Bright Sweets in a Jar": Time and Temporality in Literature and Culture. Eds. Alicja Bemben and Sonia Front. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. 45-66.
  19. Ancuta, Katarzyna. "Ghost Skins: Globalising the Supernatural in Contemporary Thai Horror Film." Globalgothic. Ed. Glennis Byron. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2013.144-156.
  20. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “Asian Gothic.” A New Companion to the Gothic. Ed. David Punter. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012: 428-441.
  21. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “Ghosts, Revenants and Spectres: The Side-effects of Dying.” Facing Finality: Cognitive and Cultural Studies on Death and Dying. Ed. Erich A. Berendt. Louisville: University of Louisville, 2011. 106-126.
  22. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “Thaid Up in Knots: Making Sense of Thai Socio-cultural Values.” The Surplus of Culture: Sense, Common-Sense and Non-Sense. Eds. E. Borkowska and T. Burzynski. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011: 157-166.
  23. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “Still Deaths: The Dialectics of Photography in Contemporary Asian Horror Film.” Gothic NEWS, vol.2. Ed. G. Menegaldo. Paris: Michel Houdiard, 2011: 193-207.
  24. Ancuta, Katarzyna. „Transgresja i ekstaza: Gotyk jako forma teorii.”  [“Transgression and Ecstasy: Gothic as Theory”]. Pogranicza Teorii Literatury. [Borders of Literary Theory]. Ed. E. Rychter. PWSZ AS: Walbrzych, 2010: 157-167.
  25. Ancuta, Katarzyna. „W przestrzeniach Gotyku: Bangkok, czyli Miasto Odmiennych Aniolow.” [“Gothic Spaces: Bangkok or the City of Different Angels”]. Znaki, tropy, mglawice. [Signs, Tropes and Nebulae]. Ed. L. Drong. Katowice: University of Silesia Press, 2009: 21-32.
  26. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “Mermaids in Manholes with Ebola Syndrome, or, Political (In)correctness Oriental Style.” Political Correctness: Mouth Wide Shut? Eds. W. Kalaga, J. Mydla and K. Ancuta. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009: 195-204.
  27. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “Kaosu Means Chaos: the Japanese Sense of Fear and its Consequences for Contemporary Horror Cinema.” Fire and Ice: The Dialectics of Chaos and Order. Eds. M. Nitka and P. Dziedzic. Katowice: Wydawnictwo US, 2008: 90-106.
  28. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “The Things We Do for Love: Jeffrey Dahmer and Cannibal Love Culture.” Spoiling Cannibals’ Fun? Eds. W. Kalaga and T. Rachwal.  Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2005: 173-186.
  29. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “Horror Bodies: Horror Inspirations in Contemporary Art.” The (Trans)Human: Bodies, Spaces, Virtualities. Eds. W. Kalaga and T. Rachwal. Katowice: Wydawnictwo US, 2005: 39-59.
  30. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “Meat Hooks, Chainsaws and the Meataphysics of Horror.” Feeding Culture: The Pleasures and Perils of Appetite. Eds. W. Kalaga and T. Rachwal. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2005: 77-90.
  31. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “Eyes, Lies and Silent Spies: Under the Gaze of the Gothic Spectator.” The Same, The Other, The Third. Eds. W. Kalaga and T. Rachwal. Katowice: Wydawnictwo US, 2004: 129-144.
  32. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “Music for the Vampire: Musical Interpretation of the Myth of the Undead.” In the Space of Arts. Ed. E. Borkowska. Katowice: Wydawnictwo US, 2004: 118-135.
  33. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “Sinners and Martyrs, or, In Goth We Trust – Contemporary Gothic and the Pleasures of Renunciation.” leid.geprüft. Eds. T. W. Duschlbauer and P. Klimitsch. Linz: Edition Gruppe für angewandte Texte, 2004: 60-74.
  34. Ancuta, Katarzyna. „Rozpad Tozsamosci – Tozsamosc Rozpadu. Nowa Dekadencja Europejska.” [“Disintegration of Identity – Identity of Disintegration. New European Decadence”]. Kultura Dialogu.The Culture of Dialogue]. Eds. E. Borkowska and A. Lyda. Katowice: Wydawnictwo WSZMiJO w Katowicach, 2004: 71-78.
  35. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “Violating the Visual: Contempoary Art and Visual Misrepresentation.” Wor(l)ds in Transition. Eds. E. Borkowska and A. Lyda. Katowice: Wydawnictwo WSZMiJO w Katowicach, 2004: 183-190.
  36. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies, or, How to Be the Living Dead in Technicolor.” Transformations I: Identity and Property. Eds. W. Kalaga and T. Rachwal. Katowice: Wydawnictwo US, 2002: 11-28.
  37. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “They Wore Black Velvet: Transgenderism and (bi)sexual ambiguity of Gothic.”  A Queer Mixture: Gender Perspectives on Minority Sexual Identities. Eds. T. Sikora, D. Ferens and T. Basiuk. Katowice: Slask, 2002: 193-204.
  38. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “[Wo]men in Black: Exiles in Contemporary Gothic.” The Writing of Exile. Eds. W. Kalaga and T. Rachwal. Katowice: Slask, 2001: 149-164.
  39. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “Pain into Pleasure, or, on the Horror of Creation: Notes on Reading Clive Barker’s The Great and Secret Show.” (Aesth)etics of Interpretation: Essays in Cultural Practice. Eds. W. Kalaga and T. Rachwal. Katowice: Wydawnictwo US, 2000: 159-170.
  40. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “Brains, Minds and Printed Circuits: Morning Thoughts on Memory and Contemporary SF Films.” Memory and Forgetfulness: Essays in Cultural Practice. Eds. W. Kalaga and T. Rachwal. Katowice: Wydawnictwo US, 1999: 163-174.

JOURNAL ARTICLES – INTERNATIONALLY REFEREED

  1. Ancuta, Katarzyna, “B is for Baempaieo: The Rise of K-vampires.” Continuum2 (2021): 233-245.
  2. Ancuta, Katarzyna, “The Waiting Woman as the Most Enduring Asian Ghost Heroine.” Gothic Studies 22.1 (2020): 81-97.
  3. Ancuta, Katarzyna, “Love, Death and Laughter in the City of Different Angels: S.P. Somtow’s Bangkok Gothic.” eTropic 18.1 (2019): 70-89.
  4. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “Patterns of Shadows: Japanese Crime Gothic as Neo-Gothic.” Echinox 35 (2018): 269-287.
  5. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “Beyond the Vampire: Revamping Thai Monsters for the Urban Age.” eTropic 16.1 (2017): 1-15.
  6. Ancuta, Katarzyna. "Lost and Found: The Found Footage Phenomenon and Southeast Asian Supernatural Horror Film Genre." Locating Southeast Asian Horror Cinema. Katarzyna Ancuta and Patrick Campos. Special Issue. Plaridel 12.2 (2015): 149-177.
  7. Ancuta, Katarzyna. "Thai Horror Film: Ghosts, Archives of History/ies, "Real Life," and Collective Trauma." Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 12.1 (2014): 46-61.
  8. Ancuta, Katarzyna. "Spirits in Suburbia: Ghosts, Global Desires and the Rise of Thai Middle-Class Horror." Special Issue on Thai Horror Film, eds. K. Ancuta and M. Ainslie. Horror Studies 5.2 (2014): 233-247.
  9. Ancuta, Katarzyna. "Medical Mysteries: Madness, Magic, Malevolent Doctors in Contemporary Thai Horror Film." Orbis Linguarum 40. Eds. E. Bialek, K. Huszcza and E. Rychter. Dresden, Wroclaw: Neisse Verlag & Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT, 2014. 427-440.
  10. Ancuta, Katarzyna. „Geister, Wiedergänger und Gespenster: die Nebenwirkungen des Sterbens." Translation of “Ghosts, Revenants and Spectres: The Side-effects of Dying.” Zeitschrift für Anomalistik 13 (2013):42-68.
  11. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “Global Spectrologies: Contemporary Thai Horror Film and the Globalization of the Supernatural.” Horror Studies 2.1 (2011): 131-144.
  12. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “Spiritus ex Machina: Spectral Technologies in Asian Horror Film.” Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 3.1-3.2 (2009): 168-184.
  13. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “Ghosts and the Machines: Spectres of Technological Revolution.” Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 2.2 (2008): 29-41.
  14. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “Ringu and the Vortex of Horror: Contemporary Japanese Horror and the Technology of Chaos.” Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 1.1 (2007): 23-42.
  15. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “I Think I’m Turning Japanese, or, Asia Does Horror.” Literature and Linguistics 3 (2005): 67-82.
  16. Ancuta, Katarzyna. „W imie milosci. Jeffrey Dahmer i zakochani kanibale.” [“In the Name of Love: Jeffrey Dahmer and Cannibals in Love”]. ER(R)GO 7.2 (2003): 39-52.
  17. Ancuta, Katarzyna. „Krajobraz z rzeznia w tle. Horror, czyli sztuka miesa.” [“Landscape with a Slaughterhouse in the Background. Horror or Meat Art”].  ER(R)GO 4.1 (2002): 83-96.

CHAPTERS IN ANTHOLOGIES

  1. Ancuta, Katarzyna. Introduction to the Section on “Subjectivity.” Literary Theory: A Critical Reader. Ed. W. Kalaga. Katowice: Slask, 2004.

ENTRIES IN ENCYCLOPEDIAS

  1. Ancuta, Katarzyna. Subsection on "Southeast Asian Ghosts" for the entry on "Ghosts." The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters. Ed. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2013.
  2. Ancuta, Katarzyna. Entries on "Asian Gothic" and "Japanese Gothic." The Encyclopedia of the Gothic. Ed. D. Punter, W. Hughes and A. Smith. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
  3. Ancuta, Katarzyna. Entries on “Footbinding,” “Geisha,” “Hysteria,” “Murder,” “Sade,” “Voyerism.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship and Sexuality through History, vol.4: The Colonial and Revolutionary Era. Ed. M. Smith. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.

REVIEWS AND CRITICAL NOTES

  1. Ancuta, Katarzyna, Anita Lundberg and Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska. „Tropical Gothic: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.” eTropic1 (June 2019): 1-11.
  2. Ancuta, Katarzyna. Entries on “Yuthlert Sippapak,” “Banjong Pisanthanakun,” “Pen-ek Ratanaruang,” “Nang Phi/Nang Sayong Khwan/Horror,” “Muay Thai/Action.” The Complete Guide to Thai Cinema. Eds Katarzyna Ancuta and Mary J. Ainslie. London: I.B. Tauris, 2018.
  3. Ancuta, Katarzyna. Reviews of “The Gangster,” “Slice,” “Meat Grinder,” The Body 19,” “The House,” “The Victim,” “Scared,” “Ladda Land,” “Raging Phoenix,” “Muay Thai Chaiya,” “Concrete Clouds,” “It Gets Better,” “Paradoxocracy,” and “The Last Executioner.” The Complete Guide to Thai Cinema. Eds. Katarzyna Ancuta and Mary J. Ainslie. London: I.B. Tauris, 2018.
  4. Ancuta, Katarzyna and Patrick F. Campos. "Locating Southeast Asian Horror Cinema." Introduction to Special Issue of Plaridel 12.2 (August 2015).
  5. Ancuta, Katarzyna and Mary Ainslie. "Thai Horror Film: International Success, History and the Avant-garde." Introduction to Special Issue on Thai Horror Film. Horror Studies 5.2. (Oct 2014): 153-156.
  6. Ancuta, Katarzyna. Editorial. Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 5.3. Special Issue (Dec 2011): i-ii.
  7. Ancuta, Katarzyna. Editorial. Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 5.2. (Oct 2011): i-ii.
  8. Ancuta, Katarzyna. Editorial. Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 5.1. (Apr 2011): i-ii.
  9. Ancuta, Katarzyna. Editorial. Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 4.2. (Oct 2010): i-iv.
  10. Ancuta, Katarzyna. Editorial. Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 4.1. (Apr 2010): i-v.
  11. Ancuta, Katarzyna. Editorial 3.2. Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 3.1.-3.2. (Apr/Oct 2009): i-iv.
  12. Ancuta, Katarzyna. Editorial 3.1. Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 3.1-3.2 (Apr/Oct 2009): i-ii.
  13. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “One Dark Night in Bangkok.” Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 2.1. (Apr 2008): 122-124.
  14. Ancuta, Katarzyna. Editorial. Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 2.1. (Feb 2008): iii-vi.
  15. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “For the Love of Spectacle.” Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 1.2. (Oct 2007): 90-101.
  16. Ancuta, Katarzyna. Editorial. Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 1.2. (Oct 2007): iii-vi.
  17. Ancuta, Katarzyna. Editorial. Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 1.1. (Feb 2007): iii-v.

ARTICLES IN POPULAR CULTURAL MAGAZINES

  1. Ancuta, Katarzyna. „Zombi (zdez)orientowane orientalnie." Creatio Fantastica nr 41. 2013. online version
  2. Ancuta, Katarzyna. „Wampir po azjatycku." Creatio Fantastica nr 40. 2013. online version
  3. Ancuta, Katarzyna. „Black Velvet.” OFF Magazine. May 2004: 29-32.
  4. Ancuta, Katarzyna. „Black Velvet. Plec srodka i (bi)seksualna plynnosc gotyku.” [“Black Velvet: Gender in the Middle and (Bi)sexual Fluidity of Gothic”] ResPublica nr 6/2003: 12-19.

TRANSLATION AND LEXICOGRAPHY

  1. Translator and lexicographer working on The Great Polish-English/English-Polish PWN/OUP Dictionary. Warsaw & Oxford: PWN/OUP, 2002.
  2. Translated a number of short works of fiction and historical documents for the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp Museum and the museum’s periodical Pro Memoria.
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