CHEUNSUMON Dhamanitayakul
ชื่นสุมน ธรรมนิตยกุล

Cheunsumon Dhamanitayakul is a Lecturer in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York and an MA in Film and Literature from the University of York with Distinction, along with an MA in Interpretation and Translation from Chulalongkorn University. Before her current academic position, Cheunsumon worked in Thailand’s cinema sector, serving at the Thai Film Foundation and Thai Film Archive. She has participated in international film programs including the Berlin International Film Festival’s “Film Festival and Event Management Training Program” and the Asian Film Professionals Training Program in Seoul, South Korea. Her research interests include contemporary literature, film studies, digital humanities, and the intersection of memory studies with Thai cinema. Her current research encompasses two major projects: “Navigating Memory: The Interplay of Remembering and Forgetting in Contemporary Thai Cinema,” examining how Thai filmmakers engage with collective and individual memory processes, and “From Page to Pixels: Reimagining Virginia Woolf’s Orlando as an Interactive Journey of Self-Exploration,” which extends her published work on videogame design approaches to modernist literature by creating an immersive experiential platform that explores themes of gender diversity, identity formation, and social validation through interactive media.