Vivienne Tailor is currently completing her doctorate in History with an emphasis on Film and Gender Studies from the University of Idaho. She earned her Cultural Studies MA with a Concentration in Media Studies from Claremont Graduate University, her Creative Writing MFA (specializing in film studies) from National University, and her English BA with an African American Studies Certificate from the University of Georgia. Her Comparative Arts research centers on oppressive regime structures, healing trauma through Art, and historical amnesia with the reclamation of memory and re/creation of individual and national identities. She applies her polyglot reading skills in Mandarin, French, and Spanish and her developing skills in Korean and Japanese to include native scholarship in her research. Her research fields include Memory Studies, Transitional Justice, Identity Politics, Trauma & Perpetrator Studies, Discourse Analysis, Film Studies & Magical Realism (Ghost Studies, Dead Body Politics).

Vivienne has presented at numerous conferences and published a chapter with Routledge titled “Harbingers, Pestilence, and Metaphors: China’s Evolving Perspectives on Locusts from the Shang Dynasty to Mo Yan.” She also published a chapter with Cambridge Scholars Publishing titled “The Dreaded Ice-hearted Cannibal: Tracing the Wendigo Myth and Illness from its Algonquin Origins to its Popular Culture Misappropriations and Reclamations.” She is currently editing a volume titled East Asian Popular Culture: Memories of Gender and Nationality (Cambridge Scholars Publishing) and is co-editing a film studies volume titled The Infinite Lenses of Trinh T. Minh-ha: A Comprehensive Film Studies Analysis (Edinburgh University Press). Vivienne is finalizing the proposals for two discrete monographs tentatively titled An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Cannibalism Through the Ages: Accusations and Rebuttals (Lexington) and Gender Identities, World Film, and Transitional Justice (Brill).