Meaghan MORRIS (Overseas Fellow)
Fields of Study:
Film and media historiographies; local and national cultures in globalisation; Australian and Asian-Pacific popular culture; action adventure in cinema and literature; public cultures and institutions after 'privatisation'
Profile:
Meaghan Morris is a figure of world stature in the field of Cultural Studies. She is currently Professor in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney as well as Distinguished Adjunct Professor at Lingnan.
Morris is a Life Member of the HKAH.
She was Chair of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society (2012 - 2016) and past Chair of the international Association for Cultural Studies (ACS), 2004-08. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities, and a former ARC Senior Fellow, from 2000-2012 she was founding Chair Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
Her articles on gender, genre and popular cultural history in the formation of national and transnational cultures appear in major journals and anthologies defining the field and her books include The Pirate's Fiancée: feminism, reading, postmodernism (1988); Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader (co-ed. 1993); Too Soon, Too Late: History in Popular Culture (1998); 'Race' Panic and the Memory of Migration (co-ed, 2001); New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society (co-ed. 2005); Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema (co-ed. 2005); and Identity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture (2006).
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