Situations. List of Contributors (Spring 2019)

141 List of Contributors Koichi IWABUCHI is a professor of Media and Cultural Studies of the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University in Melbourne, where he also directs the Monash Asia Institute. His main research interests are media and cultural globalization, trans-Asian (including Australia) cultural flows and connections, and the questions of multiculturalism and cultural citizenship in the context of Japan and East Asia. Iwabuchi is the editor of the book series, Asian Cultural Studies: Transnational and Dialogic Approaches, published by Rowan & Littlefield International. His recent English publications include Resilient Borders and Cultural Diversity: Internationalism, Brand Nationalism, and Multiculturalism in Japan (Lexington Books, 2015), “Globalization, Culture, and Communication: Renationalization in a Globalized World” (Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication, Oxford University Press, 2018), “Media and Communications” (co-authored with Nick Couldry et al., International Panel on Social Progress [IPSP]), Rethinking Society for the 21st Century: Report of the International Panel on Social Progress Vol. 2 (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Kyung Hyun KIM is a novelist, scholar, and film producer. He currently serves as a professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, UC Irvine. He is the author of Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era (2011), The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (2004), and a Korean-language novel entitled In Search of Lost G [잃어버린 G를 찾아서] (2014). He has coproduced two feature films, Never Forever (2007) and The Housemaid (2010). Currently working on a monograph titled Hegemonic Mimicry: Korean Popular Culture of the 21 st Century and a film project titled Killing Men, which is set during the Jeju Island Massacre of 1948, he has, with Yourim Lee, won the 2018 KOFIC Award for Best Movie Concept Development. Ian DIXON is an associate professor of screenwriting at Nanyang 142 List of Contributors Technological University in Singapore. He completed a dissertation on the cinema of American independent filmmaker John Cassavetes at the University of Melbourne in 2011. Dixon has given lectures internationally, including a keynote in India at the invitation of Scopus. Recently, he won the best paper award from the Center for Media and Celebrity Studies at its conference in 2017 at University of Southern California. He also acts and directs for film and television (including Neighbours, SBSi, Blue Heelers) and writes funded screenplays and novels. Ian appeared as a regular in Underbelly: Squizzy on Channel 9 in Australia. His acting work can also be viewed on City Homicide, Blue Heelers, Martial Law, Guinevere Jones, Heartbreak High, Struck by Lightning, Shadows of the Heart and Rush. Coeli BARRY teaches at the Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies at Mahidol University, Thailand. She holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in Comparative Government from Cornell University. Coeli Barry has published extensively on the politics of Catholicism and Islam in the Philippines. She is currently engaged in a project looking at the impact of conservatism and militarism on critical thinking and the life of the imagination of people working inside higher educational institutions in Thailand. Coeli Barry uses memoir journalism as a way of reflecting on life as an educator through the prism of motherhood, race, and nationality in Southeast Asia. David HUDDART is a full professor in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he has worked for over ten years. He received his PhD from Sussex University. Huddart specializes in postcolonial literature, autobiography, literary and cultural theory, and popular culture. Eli Park SORENSEN is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Sorensen completed his PhD studies at University College London. He worked at Kyung Hee University, the University of Cambridge, and Seoul National University List of Contributors before coming to CUHK in 2016. He specializes in comparative literature, postcolonial thought, literary theory, and cultural studies. Huddart and Sorensen, along with other colleagues at CUHK, are currently working on a project entitled “The Significance of the Date in the Hong Kong Imaginaire.” Hiroki YAMAMOTO (Winner, Emerging Scholar Award) was born in Chiba, Japan in 1986. He graduated in Social Science at Hitotsubashi University in 2010 and received an MA in Fine Art from the Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London (UAL) in 2013. From 2013 to 2018, Yamamoto worked at UAL’s Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN), where he completed his PhD in 2018. He also served at TrAIN as a postgraduate research fellow. He was previously a research fellow at Asia Culture Center (ACC) in Gwangju, Korea. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Eunice Sang Eun LEE is a PhD candidate in the Department of Literature at University of California, San Diego. Her research is broadly interested in issues surrounding the body and the theme of speculation in literature. Her dissertation research explores the ways in which these themes are developed through militarized circulation systems and the dissemination of the (by)products of military empire, such as canned foods, plastics, and radiation. Andrea SCHMIDT is currently an instructor in the School of Film at Portland State University. Her areas of research interest include literary adaptation, alternative heritage movements, and new media cultures. She is currently working on completing her monograph, Screening the Museum Aesthetic: Heritage, Film, and New Media Cultures. 143