Post-Doc, Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures
National University of Singapore, English Language & Literature
University of Nottingham, Department of Culture, Film and Media
The University of Manchester, Drama
RCUK Fellow in Film, Media and Transnational Cultures
Thesis Title: In Search of a Comparative Poetics: Cultural Translatability in Transnational Chinese Cinemas
About
I completed my BA Hons (English Literature) and MA in English at the National University of Singapore, and PhD in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham in 2007.
I am currently jointly based in the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC) and the Centre for Screen Studies at the University of Manchester.
My research interests are eclectic, spanning cross-cultural cinema, film festival cultures, theories of intertextuality, diaspora and identity politics, and modernism and modernity in film, literature and culture. I am working on a book-length project on cosmopolitan cinema and on a co-authored project on British Chinese cinema.
I am also co-founder of the Chinese Film Forum UK, an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded network, that was formed for the research and promotion of transnational Chinese cinemas in Manchester and beyond. The network partners include the University of Manchester, University of Salford, Manchester Metropolitan University, Confucius Institute, Chinese Arts Centre and Cornerhouse.
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