Vivienne Tailor earned her Cultural Studies MA, focusing on Media Studies, from Claremont Graduate University; her Creative Writing MFA, focusing on Screenplay Writing, 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, and Magical Realism (Ghost Studies, Dead Body Politics).

Vivienne has presented at numerous conferences and published an article titled “Black Body, White Brain; White Body, Black Spirit: How Get Out (2017) Foregrounds the Underlying Racism of The Skeleton Key (2005)” [International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies (IJHAS)], a chapter titled “Harbingers, Pestilence, and Metaphors: China’s Evolving Perspectives on Locusts from the Shang Dynasty to Mo Yan” (Routledge), and another chapter titled “The Dreaded Ice-hearted Cannibal: Tracing the Wendigo Myth and Illness from its Algonquin Origins to its Popular Culture Misappropriations and Reclamations (Cambridge Scholars Publishing). Currently, she is editing a volume titled East Asian National Memories as Manifested in Popular Culture Gender Dynamics: 2015 to the Present (Cambridge Scholars Publishing) and is lead editing a volume titled ReFocus: The Films of Trinh T. Minh-ha (Edinburgh University Press). Vivienne is finalizing two monograph proposals titled Transmedia Explorations of Cannibalism: Dehumanizing Accusations and Empowering Rebuttals (Lexington) and Execute, Ameliorate, or Rectify: Gender Identities, Transnational Film, and Transitional Justice (Brill).