Vivienne Tailor earned her Cultural Studies MA from Claremont Graduate University, Creative Writing MFA from National University, and English BA from the University of Georgia. She researches dictatorships, healing trauma through Art, the reclamation of historical memory, and re/creation of individual and national identities. She is working on two monographs on how violence-related transmedia artworks—from film to graphic novels and monuments—reflect and impact transitional justice and social harmony. 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 and perpetrator studies, Discourse Analysis, Film Studies, and Magical Realism, encompassing ghost politics, Dead Body Politics, and Spiritual Realism.

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” (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), 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 (Routledge). Currently, she is lead editing a volume titled ReFocus: The Films of Trinh T. Minh-ha (expected Spring 2026, Edinburgh University Press). Vivienne is finalizing two monograph proposals titled Dehumanizing Accusations and Empowering Rebuttals: Transmedia Explorations of Cannibalism (Lexington) and Avenge, Settle, or Forgive: Gender Identities, Transnational Film, and Transitional Justice (Brill).