Dr Fran Martin
Lecturer, Cultural Studies
Biography
Fran received both her BA (hons) and her PhD from Melbourne University. She spent two years studying Mandarin language and Chinese literature at Beijing Second Foreign Languages Institute and East China Normal University between 1989 and 1991. Later, she spent a further two years researching in Taiwan, most recently at National Taiwan Central University's Center for the Study of Sexualities (2005). Prior to joining the Cultural Studies program at the University of Melbourne, Fran lectured in the Cinema Studies program at La Trobe University.
Current research
A monograph arising from a three-year ARC Discovery research project (2003-05) entitled Backward Glances: Chinese Popular Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary (currently under review)
A collection co-edited with Peter Jackson, Mark McLelland and Audrey Yue entitled AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities. Illinois University Press, 2008 (in press).
A comparative study on lifestyle television across different national contexts, collaborating with Dr Tania Lewis (Monash University).
Teaching
- 106-106 Contemporary Culture & Everyday Life
- 106-020 Reading Sexuality
- 106-432 Cultural Studies in Asia
- 106-436 Queer Theory Ten Years On
Full subject descriptions are available on the University of Melbourne Handbook.
Publications
Recent publications
- Martin, F. "That Global Feeling: Sexual subjectivities and imagined geographies in Chinese-language lesbian cyberspaces," forthcoming in Mark McLelland and Gerard Goggin eds, Internationalizing Internet Studies, Routledge, 2008.
- Martin, F. "Taiwan (Trans)National Cinema: The Far-Flung Adventures of a Taiwanese Tomboy," in Darrell W. Davis and Robert Ru-shou Chen (eds), Cinema Taiwan: Politics, Popularity and State of the Arts, London and New York: Routledge (2007), pp. 131-45.
- Martin, F. and Larissa Heinrich (eds). Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation and Chinese Cultures. University of Hawai'i Press, 2006.
- Martin, F. "Stigmatic Bodies: The Corporeal Qiu Miaojin," in Fran Martin and Larissa Heinrich (eds) Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation and Chinese Cultures University of Hawai'i Press (2006), pp. 177-94.
- Martin, F. "Women on This Planet: Globalization and Girl Rock in Taiwan," Perfect Beat, (January 2006): 5-31.
- Martin, F. "The China Simulacrum: Genre, Feminism, and Pan-Chinese Cultural Politics in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," in Chris Berry and Lu Feii (eds), Island On The Edge: Taiwan New Cinema And After. Hong Kong University Press, 2005, pp. 149-59.
- Martin, Fran. Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film and Public Culture. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2003.
- Martin, Fran (trans.). Angelwings: Contemporary Queer Fiction From Taiwan. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003.
- Martin, Fran (ed.). Interpreting Everyday Culture. London: Hodder Arnold, 2003.
- Berry, Chris, Fran Martin and Audrey Yue (eds). Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003.
- Martin, Fran. "Women on This Planet: Globalization and Girl Rock in Taiwan," in Tony Mitchell (ed.) Liminal Sounds and Images: Transnational Chinese Popular Music. Forthcoming (2004) from Hong Kong University Press.
- Martin, Fran. "The China Simulacrum: Genre, Feminism, and Pan-Chinese Cultural Politics in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," in Lu Fei-i and Chris Berry (eds), Island On The Edge: Taiwan New Cinema And After. Forthcoming (2004) from Hong Kong University Press.
- Martin, Fran. "Vive L'Amour: Eloquent Emptiness," in Chris Berry (ed.) Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes. British Film Institute, 2003.
- Berry, Chris and Fran Martin. "Syncretism and Synchronicity: Queer'n'Asian Cyberspace in 1990s Taiwan and Korea," in Berry, Martin, and Yue (eds), Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003: 87-114.
- Martin, Fran. "Floating City, Floating Selves: Let's Love Hong Kong" (English with Chinese translation) in Yau Ching (ed.) Let's Love Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Youth Literary, 2002: 43-53.
- Martin, Fran. "The Perfect Lie: Sandee Chan and Lesbian Representability in Mandarin Pop Music," Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 4:2 (August 2003): 264-80.
- Martin, Fran. "The European Undead: Tsai Ming-liang's Temporal Dysphoria," Senses of Cinema 27 (July-August 2003).
- Martin, Fran. "The Crocodile Unmasked: Towards a Theory of Xianshen" (Chinese translation: "Boxia mianjude eyu: Maixiang yige xianshende lilun"). Journal of Women's and Gender Studies, Taiwan (Nuxue Xuezhi) 15 (May 2003): 1-36.
- Martin, Fran. "Surface Tensions: Reading Productions of Tongzhi in Contemporary Taiwan," GLQ 6.1 (2000): 61 - 86.
- Martin, Fran. "From Citizenship to Queer Counterpublic: Reading Taipei's New Park," Communal/ Plural 8:1 (April 2000): 81 - 94.
- Martin, Fran. "Chen Xue's Queer Tactics," Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 7.1 (Spring 1999): 71 - 94.