Arnika Fuhrmann conducts interdisciplinary research on intersections of aesthetic and political modernity in Southeast Asia. Her book, Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema, was published by Duke University Press in 2016. Her current project Digital Futures, focuses on new media and asks how the study of the digital enables a perspective on the political public sphere that points beyond ordinary demarcations between the liberal and illiberal. Her publications have appeared in Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture and positions: asia critique, among others. She is Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.