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Dr Mark McLelland

ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland

Current ARC Projects

2003-2006 'Japanese Sexual Minorities and the Internet'

International Linkages

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); Fran Martin (Uni Melbourne); 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

Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan: Cultural Myths and Social Realities, London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2000

Edited Books

Queer Voices from Japan: First-Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities (with Claire Maree), Lanham: Lexington Books, (contracted, 2006)

Japanese Cybercultures (with Nanette Gottlieb), London: Routledge, 2003

Chapters in Books

'Coming Out onto the Global Stage: International Queer Cultures,' in: John Scott and Gail Hawkes (eds), Social Perspectives in Human Sexuality, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (forthcoming 2004)

'Interpretation and Orientalism: Outing Japan's Sexual Minorities to the English-Speaking World,' in: Inge Boer (ed.), After Orientalism: Critical Engagements, Productive Looks, Amsterdam: Rodopi, (forthcoming 2004)

'Japanese Queerscapes: Global/Local Intersections on the Internet,' in: Chris Berry, Fran Martin and Audrey Yue (eds), Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia, Durham: Duke University Press, 2003, pp. 52-69

'Gay Men, Masculinity and the Media in Japan' in: Kam Louie and Morris Low (eds), Asian Masculinities: The Meaning and Practice of Manhood in China and Japan, London: RoutledgeCurzon Press, 2003, pp. 59-78

'The Internet in Japan,' (with Nanette Gottlieb) in: Nanette Gottlieb and Mark McLelland (eds), Japanese Cybercultures, London: Routledge, 2003, pp. 1-16

'Private Acts/Public Spaces: Cruising for Gay Sex on the Japanese Internet,' in: Nanette Gottlieb and Mark McLelland (eds), Japanese Cybercultures, London: Routledge, 2003, pp. 141-155

'Loincloths, Ladyboys and Lolita's Little Brother: Women's Culture and the Consumption of "Gay" Pornography in Japan,' in: Keith Atkinson and Justin Finnerty (eds), Queer in the Twenty-First Century: The Body--Queer and Politic, Brisbane: GLWA Inc., 2001, pp. 97-118

Refereed Articles

'The Rise of the Gei Bôi in Postwar Japan,' Men and Masculinities, special issue: The Masculine Body, (forthcoming 2004)

'Live More "Like Yourself": Transgender Identities and Sexualities in Japan,' Journal of Bisexuality, special issue: InterSEXions of the 'Others': Bisexuality and Transgender (forthcoming 2004)

'From the Stage to the Clinic: the Development of Transgender Identities in Post-War Japan,' Japan Forum, vol. 16, no. 1 (forthcoming 2004)

'A Mirror for Men? Idealised Depictions of White Men and Gay Men in Japanese Women's Media,' Transformations, number 6, special issue: Gender in Asia, http://www.ahs.cqu.edu.au/transformations/journal/pdf/no6/mclelland.pdf, February 2003

'Virtual Ethnography? Using the Internet to Study Gay Culture in Japan,' Sexualities, vol. 5, no. 4, November 2002, pp. 387-406

'The Newhalf Net: Japan's "Intermediate Sex" On-line', International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, Special Issue: Queer Webs: Representations of LGBT People and Communities on the World Wide Web, Vol 7, nos 2/3, April/July 2002, pp. 163-175

'Local Meanings in Global Space: a Case Study of Women's "Boy Love" Web Sites in Japanese and English,' Mots Pluriels, http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1901mcl.html, no. 19, Special Issue: The Net: New Apprentices and Old Masters, October 2001

'Out on the Global Stage: Authenticity, Interpretation and Orientalism in Japanese Coming Out Narratives,' Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/articles/McLelland.html October 2001

'"Live Life More Selfishly:" An On-line Gay Advice Column in Japan,' Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 15:1, April 2001, pp. 103-116

'Is there a Japanese "Gay Identity?"' Special issue: Critical regionalities - Gender and sexual diversity in South East and East Asia, Culture, Health & Sexuality, 2:4, Autumn 2000, pp. 459-472

'Out and About on Japan's Gay Net,' Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Special Issue: The Internet, 6:3, September 2000, pp. 16-33

'No Climax, No Point, No Meaning? Japanese Women's "Boy-Love" Sites on the Internet,' Journal of Communication Inquiry, 24:3, July 2000, pp. 274-291

'The Love between "Beautiful Boys" in Japanese Women's Comics,' The Journal of Gender Studies, v. 9, n. 1, March 2000, pp. 13-26

'Male Homosexuality and Popular Culture in Modern Japan,' Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, issue 3, January 2000: http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue3/mclelland2.html

'Gay Men as Women's Ideal Partners in Japanese Popular Culture: Are Gay Men Really a Girl's Best Friends?' The U.S.-Japan Women's Journal English Supplement, v. 17, December 1999, pp. 77-110

'How to Be a Nice Gay: The Stereotyping of Gay Men in Japanese Media,' New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, v. 1, n. 1, pp. 42-59, June 1999

Current Research Interests

subcultural uses of the Internet

Japanese sexual minorities

queer theories and histories