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Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS)

CAPSTRANS Research Associate

Associate Professor Mark McLelland

Convenor Sociology Program, 
School of Social Sciences, Media & Communication, 
Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong
Email: markmc@uow.edu.au

Qualifications

BA, MA (Cambridge)
Dip. Japanese Language (Sheffield)
PhD (Hong Kong)

Research Programs

Culture and Representation
Innovation in Cultural Research
Media and Communications

Research Specialisation

Minority gender and sexuality community history in postwar Japan; Japanese popular culture and new media; Internet history and communities; queer culture and theory.

Languages

English and Japanese.

Current Research Projects

• Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms
• Sex and the City: Reconstructing Gender and Sexuality in Tokyo 1945-55
• Sex and the City: 'Kissing is a symbol of Democracy: Dating Democracy and Romance in Japan Under the Occupation 1945-52.
• Internet Histories
• Japanese Transnational Fandoms

Recent Publications

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date

• 2009: ‘Japanese Transnational Fandoms and Female Consumers’, guest-edited edition of Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
• AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities (University of Illinois Press, 2008; with Fran Martin, Peter Jackson and Audrey Yue)
• (2007): Queer Voices from Japan (with Katsuhiko Suganuma and James Welker; Lexington), CHOICE outstanding academic title 2007
• (2006): Special 'Queer Japan' themed edition of the journal Intersections
• (2005): Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age (Rowman & Littlefield)
• (2005): Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan (with Romit Dasgupta, Routledge)
• (2003): Japanese Cybercultures (with Nanette Gottlieb, Routledge)