Olivia Khoo
PhD (University of Melbourne), LLB, Hons (University of New South Wales), BA, Hons (University of Western Australia)
Olivia Khoo curriculum vitae [
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Biography
Prior to arriving at Monash, I was a Research Fellow at Curtin University. I have also taught film and media at the University of New South Wales, and cultural studies at the University of Technology, Sydney and the University of Melbourne.
I am currently working on an ARC Discovery Project with Belinda Smaill (Monash) and Audrey Yue (Melbourne) on the History of Asian Australian Cinema (2009-2011). I am also a member of the ARC Cultural Research Network and Executive Member of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network. In 2004-5 I was a Visiting Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore and Resident at the Taipei Artists' Village in Taiwan where I curated a festival of films by Asian female directors. I have also worked on a number of film and arts festivals in Australia including the Sydney Film Festival and the Melbourne Queer Film Festival.
My publications include The Chinese Exotic: Modern Diasporic Femininity (Hong Kong University Press, 2007) and (with Sean Metzger) Futures of Chinese Cinema: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures (Intellect Press, 2009).
Research interests
Asian Cinema
Regional Asian cinema as well as cinemas from Hong Kong, Singapore, the PRC and Taiwan
Asian Australian Cinema
The history of Asian Australian cinema; representations of Asians in Australian cinema
Transnational Asian Cultural Studies
Including Asian/Australian cultural production and popular culture
Selected publications
- Khoo, O. (2010) ‘Fifteen Minutes of Fame: Transient/Transnational Female Stardom in Hero’, in Rawnsley, G., and Rawnsley, MY. Edited Global Chinese Cinema: The Culture and Politics of ‘Hero’. London, RoutledgeCurzon.
- Khoo, O., and Metzger, S. (2009) Futures of Chinese Cinema: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures. Bristol, Intellect Press.
- Khoo, O. (2007) The Chinese Exotic: Modern Diasporic Femininity. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press.
- Khoo, O. (2006) ‘Telling Stories: The Sacrificial Asian in Australian Cinema’. Journal of Intercultural Studies, Vol 27, No. 1-2, February-May. Pages 45-63.
- Khoo, O. (2006) ‘Love in Ruins: Spectral Bodies in Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love’ in Heinrich, L., and Martin, F. edited Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation and Chinese Cultures. (Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press.