Dr Audrey Yue
Head of Cinema and Cultural Studies
Qualifications
BA Hons (Communications Studies, Murdoch University); PhD (Cinema Studies, La Trobe University)
Biography
Audrey Yue has taught Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne since 1998. Prior to joining the University, she worked as a Senior Research consultant with the Australian Key Centre for Media and Cultural Policy on the project, Floating Life: The Media and Asian Diasporas (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001).
Current Research
Asian Australian Cinema: History, Policy and Representation
An ARC Discovery Project grant application on the development of Asian Australian Cinema, collaborating with Dr Olivia Khoo (University of New South Wales) and Dr Belinda Smaill (Monash University). PROJECT ID: DP0879120
Sexuality and the Creative City in Singapore
Current book project on the development and impact of creative industry policy on cultural and sexual citizenships in Singapore.
Queer Asian Migrations in Australia
Current book project on contemporary queer Asian migration practices in Australia.
Knowledge transfer
Editorial advisory boards
- Hong Kong University Press (Queer Asia series)
- Feminist Media Studies
- International Journal of Chinese Cinemas
- Metro Screen Magazine
- Metro Screen Education
Research networks
- Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Programme (Research Associate, Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
- ARC-funded Cultural Research Network (member)
- ARC-funded Asia Pacific Futures Research Network (member)
- Asian Australian Studies Research Network (member)
- AsiaPacifiQueer Network (co-convenor)
Teaching
- 106-014 Hong Kong Cinema
- 106-055 Cybercultures: Global/Local
- 106-101 Contemporary Culture and Media
- 106-217 Asian Screen Cultures
- 106-402 Cultural Power and Policy
- 106-428 Media, Politics and Cultural Diaspora
Full subject descriptions are available on the University of Melbourne Handbook.
Teaching awards
- 2007 Barbara Falk Award for Teaching Excellence (with Brett Farmer)
- 2007 Certificate of Merit for Knowledge Transfer for Multimedia and Educational Technologies for Teaching and Learning Enhancement (with Brett Farmer)
- 2004 Faculty of Arts Teaching Award
Current research supervisions
- Insuring Intimacy: Refiguring the Subject of Risk. (Kristen Tytler, PhD) (expected date of submission August 2007)
- Islamic Modernity: New Media in Morocco (Maya Kriem, PhD)
- Mobile Telephony and Female Consumption in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Australia (Larissa Hjorth, PhD)
- Global Korean Cinema and Transcultural Consumption (Sun Jung, PhD)
- B-Grade Global Cultures (Ramon Lobato)
- Design and Creative Economies in Australasia (Sufern Hoe, PhD)
- The Governance of Fat (Rachael Kendrick, PhD)
PhD and MA passed
- Chinese Media Spectacles in the New Millennium: Counternarratives of Chinese Modernity (Haiqing Yu, PhD, 2007)
- Global Bodies: Transnational Chinese Masculinity, Asian Scopic Modernities, and Contemporary Film (Alvin Koh, PhD, 2006)
- Multiculturalism as cultural policy and hybridity as creative practice in the Australian cinema : the works of Clara Law, Christopher Doyle and Tony Ayres (Queenie Chan, MA, 2005)
- Bisexual Terrorism (Lachlan MacDowall, PhD, 2004)
- Japanese Social Identity: Performativity and Popular Culture (Daniel Black, RMIT, PhD, 2003) (External supervision with RMIT)
- Exporting The Nation: Australian Literature in the People's Republic of China (Peter Pugsley, PhD, 2003) (Co-supervision with Asia Institute)
- The Chinese Exotic: Con-temporary Visibilities of Diasporic Chinese Femininity (Olivia Khoo, PhD, 2003)
- Homogenisation and Resistance in Global Media Texts: Mainstream Australian versus Minority Muslim Internet Newspaper Representations of Muslim Identity in 1999 (Penelope Addison, MA, 2002) (co-supervision with Asia Institute)
- Tiger in Paradise: Postcolonial Multicultural Mauritius (Naseem Aumeerally, PhD, 2002)
Publications
In press
- Same-Sex Migration in Australia: From Interdependency to Intimacy, GLQ 14: 2-3 (2008). (accepted, forthcoming, 2008)
- AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Gender and Sexuality, with Peter Jackson, Mark McLelland and Fran Martin. Eds. Illinois: Illinois University Press (in press, 2008).
- "King Victoria: Asian Drag Kings, Multicultural Sexuality and Postcolonial Female Masculinity in Australia." In AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Gender and Sexuality , eds., Peter Jackson, Mark McLelland, Fran Martin and Audrey Yue. Illinois, Illinois University Press (in press, 2008).
- "Gay Asian Sexual Health in Australia: Governing HIV/AIDS, Racializing Biopolitics and Performing Conformity." Sexualities (accepted, forthcoming, 2008)
- "China's Super Girl: Mobile Youth Cultures and New Sexualities," with Haiqing Yu. In Youth Media in the Asia Pacific Region , eds., Belinda Smaill and Usha Rodrigues. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholar Press (forthcoming, 2008).
- "Kung Fu Fighting: Doing Action and Negotiating Masculinity." In Cultural Theory, Everyday Life, eds., Katrina Schlunke and Nicole Anderson. Melbourne: Oxford University Press (forthcoming, 2008).
- "Hawking in the Creative City: Rice Rhapsody, Sexuality and the Cultural Politics of New Asia in Singapore." Feminist Media Studies 7: 4 (accepted, forthcoming, 2007)
- "Hong Kong Noir and The City-in-Transition." Datutop: Journal of Architectural Theory 28 (accepted, forthcoming, 2007)
Books
- Mobile Cultures: New Media In Queer Asia, with Chris Berry and Fran Martin. Eds. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003
Book chapters
- "Migration-as-Transition: Hong Kong Cinema and The Ethics of Love in Wong Kar-wai's 2046." In Asian Migrations: Sojourning, Displacement, Homecoming and Other Travels, eds., B. Lorente, N. Piper, H. Shen and B. Yeoh. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2005, 156-178.
- "Migration-as-Transition: Pre-Post-1997 Hong Kong Culture in Clara Law's Autumn Moon." In Between Home and World: A Reader in Hong Kong Cinema, eds., Esther M.K. Cheung and Yiu-wai Chu. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2004: 224-247. Reprinted from Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context. 4 (September 2000).
- "The Wind Blows On: Forever Leslie…King of Pop, Queen of Hearts." In Actor: Leslie Cheung, eds., Clare Stewart and Philippa Hawker. Melbourne: ACMI, 2003, 39-55.
- "Shopping." In Interpreting Everyday Cultures, ed. Fran Martin. London: Arnold, 2003, 124-139.
- "Eating." In Interpreting Everyday Cultures, ed., Fran Martin. London: Arnold, 2003, 159-172.
- "Getting Around." In Interpreting Everyday Cultures, Fran Martin. London: Arnold, 2003, 188-191.
- "In The Mood For Love: Intersections of Hong Kong Modernity." In Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes, ed. Chris Berry. London: British Film Institute, 2003, 128-136.
- "Paging 'New Asia': Sambal is a Feedback Loop, Coconut is a Code, Rice is a System." In Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia, eds. Chris Berry, Fran Martin and Audrey Yue. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003, 245-266.
- "Asian-Australian Cinema, Asian-Australian Modernity." In Diaspora: Negotiating Asian-Australia, eds., Helen Gilbert, Tseen Khoo and Jacqueline Lo. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2000, 190-199.
- Audrey Yue. "Preposterous Horror: On Rouge, A Chinese Ghost Story and Nostalgia." In The Horror Reader, ed. Ken Gelder. New York: Routledge, 2000, 364-373.
Journal articles
- "The Regional Culture of New Asia: Cultural Governance and Creative Industries in Singapore." International Journal of Cultural Policy 12:1 (2006): 17-33.
- "What's So Queer About Happy Together? aka Queer (N)Asian: Interface, Mobility, Belonging." Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Journal 1:2 (August 2000): 251-264.
- "Going South," with Gay Hawkins. New Formations 40 (Spring 2000): 49-63.