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Personal profile
Biography
Olivia Khoo is Associate Professor in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University. Prior to arriving at Monash she 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. She was a Targeted Research Fellow at Curtin University during 2008-2010.
Olivia is the author of Asian Cinema: A Regional View (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), The Chinese Exotic: Modern Diasporic Femininity (Hong Kong University Press, 2007), and co-author (with Belinda Smaill and Audrey Yue) of Transnational Australian Cinema: Ethics in the Asian Diasporas (Lexington, 2013). Olivia is also co-editor of four volumes: The Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia (with Larissa Hjorth, 2016), Contemporary Culture and Media in Asia (with Daniel Black and Koichi Iwabuchi, 2016), Sinophone Cinemas (with Audrey Yue, 2014), and Futures of Chinese Cinema: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures (with Sean Metzger, 2009). Her essays have appeared in leading international journals including Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Asian Studies Review, Feminist Media Studies, Camera Obscura, Screening the Past, and GLQ.
Olivia has been awarded two Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project grants: on the History of Asian Australian cinema (with Audrey Yue and Belinda Smaill, 2009-2011), and on Trans-Asian Media Flows between Australia and East Asia (with Koichi Iwabuchi, Fran Martin and Audrey Yue, 2016-2020). In 2004-5 Olivia was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and in 2005 she received an Australia-China Council Residency Award to the Taipei Artists Village in Taiwan. She has also received a University of California Humanities Research Institute collaborative research residential award to UC Irvine in August 2013, and from January-April 2015 she returned to the Asia Research Institute as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow.
Olivia holds an Honours degree in English Literature from the University of Western Australia, a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the University of New South Wales, and a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of Melbourne.
Research interests
Film, Television and Digital Media
Asian cinema
Asian media and cultural studies
Asian Australian cinema
Australian cinema
Transnational Film
Women and film
Gender and Media
Supervision interests
Film, Television and Digital Media
Cultural Studies
Gender and Media
Asian cinema (transnational Chinese cinemas, East and South-East Asian cinemas)
Asian media and cultural studies (popular culture in Asia, diasporic media)
Asian Australian cinema
Australian cinema (Australian national cinema, women's filmmaking in Australia, race and ethnicity in Australian cinema)
Women and film (feminism and film, women's filmmaking, sexuality and film)
World cinema (international film festivals, transnational cinemas)
Monash teaching commitment
ATS3539 Asian Cinema and Television
APG5782: Film Festivals in Local and International Contexts
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, MONASH UNIVERSITY
Award Date: 23 Dec 2011
Law, Bachelor of Laws (Honours), University of New South Wales
Award Date: 31 Dec 2009
Cultural Studies, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne
Award Date: 8 Aug 2003
English Literature, Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Western Australia
Award Date: 23 Dec 1996
Research area keywords
- Film, television and digital media
- Cultural Studies
- Gender and sexuality
- Asian cinema
- Asian media and cultural studies
- Transnational film
- Australian cinema
- Women's filmmaking
- Asian Australian cinema
Network
Projects
- 1 Active
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Transforming Cultural Identity: Media flows between Australia and East Asia
Khoo, O., Martin, F. A. & Yue, A.
Australian Research Council (ARC), Monash University, University of Melbourne
1/04/16 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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Cao Fei's Sentimental Fabulations
Khoo, O., 2022, 13 p. Rome Italy : Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy.Research output: Other contribution › Other
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Asian Cinema: A Regional View
Khoo, O., 2021, 1st ed. Edinburgh UK: Edinburgh University Press. 168 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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A Voice for Elephants: Kirsten Tan's Pop Aye and Environmental Dialogue in Southeast Asia
Khoo, O., 2021, In: Screen. 62, 4, p. 568-576 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Drone feminism: technology, surveillance and entanglement in Laura Poitras’ Astro Noise
Khoo, O., 2021, In: Feminist Media Studies. 21, 3, p. 398-408 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Introduction: Australia in the field of trans-Asian media flows
Khoo, O., Martin, F. & Yue, A., 22 Feb 2020, In: Media International Australia. 175, 1, p. 3-5 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment / Debate › Other
Activities
- 6 Editorial responsibility
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Asian Congress for Media and Communication Journal (Journal)
Olivia Khoo (Editorial board member)
2021Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
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Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
Olivia Khoo (Editorial board member)
2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
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Southeast Asian Media Studies (Journal)
Olivia Khoo (Editorial board member)
2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
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Metro (Journal)
Olivia Khoo (Associate editor)
2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
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Studies in World Cinema (Journal)
Olivia Khoo (Associate editor)
2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility