Background
Jamie is a global queer media scholar and currently Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural Studies at SCM. She has studied widely in Mainland China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Hong Kong. Jamie has received two PhDs, one in Gender Studies (affiliated with Cultural Studies) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a second in Film and Television Studies from the University of Warwick, UK. Her research interests encompass diverse but interrelated areas which include gender and sexuality in Chinese-language entertainment, celebrity culture, queer fandom, variety TV, female masculinity in East Asian pop and public cultures, global queering theory, and post-colonial theory in the Asian context. Previously, she held faculty, honorary and visiting scholar positions at the University of Liverpool's UK and China campuses, NingboTech University, Xiamen University, and New York University-Shanghai.
Jamie has co-edited nine special journal issues focusing on the aspects of gender and sexuality in global celebrity cultures, fan cultures and global TV. She is also the editor of the upcoming anthology, Queer TV China (Hong Kong University Press, 2023; https://hkupress.hku.hk/index.php?route=product/product&author_id=1216&product_id=1600) and the coeditor of three more anthologies, Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan (Hong Kong University Press, 2017; https://hkupress.hku.hk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=844), Contemporary Queer Chinese Art (Bloomsbury, 2023; https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/contemporary-queer-chinese-art-9781350333529/), and the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality (Routledge, 2023). Currently, she’s working on three monograph projects dedicated to global queer TV, Chinese queer women-centered fandom, and female masculinity and homoeroticism in celebrity and TV industries of the Sinosphere.
In addition, she is the founding coeditor of the book series “Queering China: Transnational Genders and Sexualities,” (https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/queering-china-transnational-genders-and-sexualities/) published by Bloomsbury and the “Transdisciplinary Souths” (https://www.routledge.com/Transdisciplinary-Souths/book-series/TRDS?publishedFilter=alltitles&pd=published,forthcoming&pg=1&pp=12&so=pub&view=list?publishedFilter=alltitles&pd=published,forthcoming&pg=1&pp=12&so=pub&view=list#) published by Routledge. Moreover, she is part of the editorial board of the ICA-associated journal titled Communication, Culture & Critique and the International Journal of East Asian Studies, and Bloomsbury’s book series, “Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies.”
Jamie welcomes PhD and RA applicants who are interested in exploring nonnormative forms of female gender and sexuality in the Chinese, Sinophone, and inter-Asian entertainment industries during an age of globalization and digitization.