Dr Fran Martin
Cultural Studies Program, University of Melbourne
Current ARC Projects
2003-05, The Impact of Globalisation in Transforming Sexuality and Cultural Citizenship in Transnational Chinese Cultures: A Comparative Analysis
International Linkages
Australia representative for the Taiwan Cultural Studies Association, and member of the editorial board of the journal Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Taiwan (Tsing Hua University) and Singapore (National University of Singapore).
Member, organising committee AsiaPacifiQueer: An International Conference of Asian Lesbian, Gay, Transgender and Queer Studies, Bangkok, July 2005. With Peter Jackson (Fellow in Thai History, Division of Pacific and Asian History, ANU); Mark McLelland (Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, UQ); Dr Petcharamesree Sriprapha (Mahidol Uni, Thailand); Dr Mike Hayes (Mahidol Uni, Thailand); Prof. Doug Sanders (ret. living in Bangkok); Dr Sinith Sitthiraks (founder of Women's Studies at Thammasat Uni, Thailand); and Mr Jan Willem de Lindt Van Wijngaarden (deputy director of UN AIDS Bangkok responsible for SE Asia).
Publications
Books
Martin, F. Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film and Public Culture. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2003.
Translations
Martin, F. (trans.) Angelwings: Contemporary Queer Fiction From Taiwan. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003.
Edited Books
Martin, F. (ed.) Interpreting Everyday Culture. London: Hodder Arnold; Distributed in the USA by Oxford University Press. 2003.
Co-edited Books
Berry, C., F. Martin and A. Yue (eds) Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003.
Chapters in Books
Martin, F. General Introduction in Fran Martin (ed.), Interpreting Everyday Culture. London, Hodder Arnold, 2003.
Martin, F. Four Section Introductions, 2000 words each, in Fran Martin (ed.) Interpreting Everyday Culture. Hodder Arnold, forthcoming 2004. Entitled "Theory and Everyday Life", "Thinking Space," "Commodity Culture," and "Everyday Life as Practice."
Annamarie Jagose, Fran Martin and Chris Healy. "At Home in the Suburb," in Fran Martin (ed.) Interpreting Everyday Culture. Hodder Arnold, 2003.
Martin, F. "Vive L'Amour: Eloquent Emptiness," in Chris Berry (ed.) Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes. British Film Institute, 2003.
Chris Berry, Fran Martin and Audrey Yue. "BeepClickLink: Introduction," in Berry, Martin and Yue (eds), Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003: 1-18.
Chris Berry 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, F. "Taiwan's Literature of Transgressive Sexuality," in Fran Martin (trans.) Angelwings: Contemporary Queer Fiction From Taiwan, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003: 1-28.
Martin, F. "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.
Chris Berry and Fran Martin. "Queer'n'Asian on and off the Net," in David Gauntlett ed., Web.Studies: Rewiring Media Studies for the Digital Age, London: Arnold and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000: 74-81. Reprinted in part in Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez eds, Gender, Race and Class in Media: A Text-Reader. Thousand Oaks, London, and New Delhi: Sage, 2003: 149-54.
Chris Berry and Fran Martin. "Queer'n'Asian on and off the Net: Syncretic Sexualities in Taiwan and Korean Cyberspace," Korean translation in Hyonshil Munhwayonku (Contemporary Cultural Studies Group) ed., Munhwa Ilkki: Bbira eso Saibo Munhwa Kkaji [Culture Readings: From Leaflets to Cyberspace] Seoul: Hyonshil Munhwayonku, 2000: 349-73.
Refereed Articles
Martin, F. "The Perfect Lie: Sandee Chan and Lesbian Representability in Mandarin Pop Music," Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 4:2 (August 2003): 264-80.
Martin, F. "The European Undead: Tsai Ming-liang's Temporal Dysphoria," in the refereed Features section of Senses of Cinema 27 (July-August 2003). http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/03/27/tsai_european_undead.html
Martin, F. "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, F. "The Legacy of the Crocodile: Critical Debates over Taiwanese Lesbian Fiction," International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter 29 (November 2002), Special Issue on Asian Homosexualities edited and refereed by Giovanni Vitiello: 8. Also available online at http://www.iias.nl/iiasn/29/IIASNL29_8_Martin.pdf
Martin, F. "Surface Tensions: Reading Productions of Tongzhi in Contemporary Taiwan," GLQ 6.1 (2000): 61 86.
Martin, F. "From Citizenship to Queer Counterpublic: Reading Taipei's New Park," Communal/ Plural 8:1 (April 2000): 81 94.
Martin, F. "Wild Women and Mechanical Men: Tsai Ming-liang's The Hole," Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context 4 (September 2000). http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue4/holereview.html
Martin, F. "Chen Xue's Queer Tactics," Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 7.1 (Spring 1999): 71 94.
Other Refereed Literary Translations
Martin, F. Translation of Taiwanese author Chen Xue's short story "Searching for the Lost Wings of the Angel," Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 7.1, Spring 1999: 51 69.
Other Publications
Review of Hamid Naficy, An Accented Cinema, Screening the Past 14 (November 2002). http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/reviews/rev1002/fmbr14a.html
"Dismembering Theory: Working Notes," Cultural Studies Monthly 3 (May 2001), Taiwan. http://www.ncu.edu.tw/~eng/csa/journal/journal_park12.htm
Current Research Interests
gender and sexuality studies
postcolonial and globalization studies
contemporary Chinese and Taiwanese fiction, film and popular cultures
transnational Asian cultural flows