Dr. Deimantas Valančiūnas is Associate Professor of Asian Cinema and Popular Culture at the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies, Vilnius University. One of his research areas is horror culture in Asia, and he is currently working on a book on Gothic and horror aesthetics in Asian popular culture with scholars from Thailand and Taiwan. He teaches courses such as “Asian Cinema”, “Asian Visual Culture”, “Asian Popular Culture”, etc. to students at Vilnius University.