Li-An Ko is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Media and Culture Studies and the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Utrecht University. Her PhD project, “Beyond Sadness: The Historical Films in the Post-Martial Law Period of Taiwan (1987-2017),” focuses on feature films that represent the island's colonial past and suppressed histories. Her research concerns the representation of history in film and historical amnesia as a consequence of political violence. She pays particular attention to (new) approaches to film analysis and interpretation, while also interested in aesthetics and politics, history and memory, and film education. Ko was awarded a two-year doctoral scholarship (the GSSA) from Taiwan's Ministry of Education between 2017 and 2019.