Organisers

AsiaPacifiQueer 3 Conference

The University of Melbourne, 8 December 2002, Melbourne, Australia


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.


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.


Mark McLelland is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. He is the author of Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan (Curzon 2000) and the co-editor of Japanese Cybercultures Routledge 2003). His current work focuses on the intersections between gender, sexuality and new technologies in Japan and beyond and his papers have appeared in such online journals as Intersections, issue 3 and issue 4; The Journal of Cult Media; Mots Pluriels; and the Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies. He has also published in conventional hard-to-find and laborious-to-copy print journals such as The Journal of Gender Studies, Continuum, Convergence, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Culture Health & Sexuality and the International Journal of Sexuality & Gender Studies. His new book project Local Culture/Global Space: Japanese Minority Sexualities and the Internet is currently looking for a home.

Alvin Koh is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English with Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. He is currently conducting research around the broad theme of 'Chinese' masculinity.





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