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Peter A. Jackson is Fellow in Thai History in the Australian National University's Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. He was formerly head of the Thai National Curriculum Project in Canberra and Executive Officer of the ANU's National Thai Studies Centre. His research focuses on modern Thai cultural history, with emphases on religion and sexuality. Current projects include a history of gay Bangkok and a study of the impact of Thailand's economic boom and bust on Buddhism and other aspects of Thai religion. Peter Jackson's books include Buddhadasa: A Buddhist Thinker for the Modern World (1988), Buddhism, Legitimation and Conflict: The Political Functions of Urban Thai Buddhism (1989), Dear Uncle Go: Male Homosexuality in Thailand (1995), Genders and Sexualities in Modern Thailand (1999, ed. with Nerida Cook), Multicultural Queer: Australian Narratives (1999, ed. with Gerard Sullivan), and Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand (1999, ed. with Gerard Sullivan). He has also published in the electronic journal Intersections. |
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Olivia Khoo is a PhD candidate in the Department of English with Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests include Asian exoticism and regionalism, and contemporary visibilities of Asian femininity. She has published articles in Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies (Volume 14, Number 3, 1999), and in the Journal of Australian Studies (forthcoming, September 2000). She also has a chapter entitled 'Sexing the City : Malaysia's New Cyberlaws and Cyberjaya's Queer Success,' in Mobile Cultures: New Media and Queer Asia (edited by Chris Berry, Audrey Yue, and Fran Martin; forthcoming). |
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Mark McLelland is a post-doctoral fellow in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. Mark wrote his Ph.D. thesis on representations of male homosexuality in the Japanese media which was later published as Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan: Cultural Myths and Social Realities, Curzon Press (2000). His papers on homosexuality in Japan have appeared in The New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, The U.S.-Japan Women's Journal, The Journal of Gender Studies, Intersections and Culture, Health and Sexuality. His current research focuses on the interface between homosexuality, gender and new technologies in Japan and he has published on this topic in The Journal of Communication Inquiry, Convergence and Continuum. He also has a chapter on Japanese queer uses of the Internet in the forthcoming book Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia edited by Chris Berry, Fran Martin and Audrey Yue (Duke University Press) and is co-editor (with Nanette Gottlieb) of Japanese Cybercultures (forthcoming). |
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Dr. Fran Martin has published critical essays on lesbian and gay sexualities in contemporary Taiwan in Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, GLQ, Communal/Plural, Intersections and Critical InQueeries, and her work has appeared in Chinese translation in Chungwai Literary Monthly and Youth Literary. She wrote the foreword for Taiwanese author Ta-wei Chi's most recent short story collection, Fetish (Lianwupi, Taipei, 1998). Her anthology of ten of her own translations with critical Introduction, entitled Angelwings: Contemporary Queer Fiction from Taiwan, is forthcoming with Hawai'i University Press, and her translations of Taiwanese fiction have also appeared in Positions and antiTHESIS. She is currently co-editing a collection with Chris Berry and Audrey Yue entitled Mobile Cultures: New Media and Queer Asia. She was awarded her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies for a thesis entitled 'Situating Sexuality: Queer Narratives in 1990s Taiwanese Fiction and Film' in 2000, and currently lectures in the Cultural Studies program at the University of Melbourne. |
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Audrey Yue is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at The University of Melbourne. She is the author of Preposterous Hong Kong Cinema 1984-1997 (forthcoming) and her essays on diaspora cultures, queer theory and Hong Kong cinema appear in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Journal of Australian Studies, Journal of Homosexuality, Meanjin, New Formations, Multicultural Queer (Haworth Press, 1999), Floating Lives: The Media and Asian Diasporas (University of Queensland Press, 1999) and The Horror Reader (Routledge, 2000). She is currently co-editing a volume Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia (Duke UP, forthcoming) with Fran Martin and Chris Berry, as well as researching on sexual politics and cultural identities in transnational New Asia. |
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