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Dr Jane Park
BA Brown MA Irvine PhD Texas
Senior Lecturer
Gender and Cultural Studies
Gender and Cultural Studies
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A14 - The Quadrangle
The University of Sydney
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Dr. Jane Chi Hyun Park is a cultural studies scholar trained in literary and media studies. Her work looks at the impact of globalisation in popular media, with a focus on South Korea and East Asian diasporas in the US and Australia. She teaches courses that help develop cultural and racial literacies through a holistic, intersectional approach foregrounding the body, emotions, and lived experience.
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- Decolonial and feminist pedagogies
- Film and popular media
- Race, ethnicity and multiculturalism
- Aesthetics and ethics
- Postcolonial theory
- Diaspora and transnationalism
Jane does not teach these units every year. Please check the department's undergraduate and postgraduate web pages for teaching plans.
Postgraduate units
- INGS4002, Identity, Politics, Globalisation (from 2020)
- GCST5905, Identity, Place and Culture
- GCST6904, Asian Diasporic Cultural Studies (team-taught with Asian Studies)
- USSC6915, American Contemporary Media (in the United States Studies Centre)
Undergraduate units
- GCST1601, Introduction to Cultural Studies
- GCST1604, Introduction to Diversity
- GCST2605 Representing Race and Gender
- GCST2606, Genres in Cultural Context
- GCST3601, Race and Australian Identities (no longer available)
I am currently working on a book project, tentatively titled “Extreme Women: Korean Femininities in Popular Culture,” which examines how diasporic and transnational Korean female stars embody fantasies of “extreme,” socially transgressive women on screen – performances that, I argue, queer both traditional forms of Confucian femininity and Western stereotypes of East Asian women. I analyze the articulation of these fantasies through popular cultural texts in film, television, and the Internet, mapping the complex ways that cultural expressions of “Korean” and “Asian” femininity are being translated for global audiences.
| Project title | Research student |
|---|---|
| Cultural Bias in Digital Design: Investigating the Role of Orientalism in HCI and its Impact on Diaspora | Diana CHAMMA |
| Transformative Pleasure in Fantasized Intimate Relationship: Chinese Danmei Online Novels and Digital Fandom | Lynn ZHENG |
Selected publications
Yellow Future: Oriental Style in Hollywood Cinema
(University of Minnesota Press, 2010)
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Books
- Park, J. (2010). Yellow Future: Oriental Style in Hollywood Cinema. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Book Chapters
- Park, J., Tang, S. (2024). The Accidental Showgirl: Reminiscing with Performer and Pioneer Feminist Lynne Hutton-Williams. In M. Hardie, M. Morris and K. Race (Eds.), The Year's Work in "Showgirls" Studies, (pp. 229-263). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- Park, J. (2019). Sassy Girls: A Transnational Reading of the Monstrous Girlfriend in South Korea, India and the United States. In S. Heijin Lee, Monika Mehta, Robert Ji-Song Ku (Eds.), Pop Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea, (pp. 227-244). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. [More Information]
- Park, J. (2018). Crossing Over: South Korean Cinema, Oriental Style and Hollywood Cinema. In So-young Kim (Eds.), Korean Cinema: Confronting the World, (pp. 119-143). Seoul: Hyunsilmunhwa Press.
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Journals
- Chia, Y., Jackson, L., Rizvi, F., Takayama, K., Jun, A., Low, R., Coloma, R., Horse, A., Stanley, T., Jeung, R., Park, J., et al (2023). Education and #StopAsianHate: a global conversation. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 55(13), 1450-1463. [More Information]
- Park, J., Tomkins, S. (2021). Teaching whiteness: A dialogue on embodied and affective approaches. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 53(3), 288-297. [More Information]
- Park, J., Chi, T. (2020). "Banal Apocalypse" An Interview with Author Ta-wei Chi on the New Translation of The Membranes mpp. Screen Bodies, 5(2), 63-70. [More Information]
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Textual Creative Works
- Park, J. (2010). 1. Amnesia 2. Education 3. Anime Wong 4. Plane Trips 5. Assimilation. Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project, First, (pp. 130 - 139). Austin, United States of America: University of Texas Press.
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2024
- Park, J., Tang, S. (2024). The Accidental Showgirl: Reminiscing with Performer and Pioneer Feminist Lynne Hutton-Williams. In M. Hardie, M. Morris and K. Race (Eds.), The Year's Work in "Showgirls" Studies, (pp. 229-263). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
2023
- Chia, Y., Jackson, L., Rizvi, F., Takayama, K., Jun, A., Low, R., Coloma, R., Horse, A., Stanley, T., Jeung, R., Park, J., et al (2023). Education and #StopAsianHate: a global conversation. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 55(13), 1450-1463. [More Information]
2021
- Park, J., Tomkins, S. (2021). Teaching whiteness: A dialogue on embodied and affective approaches. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 53(3), 288-297. [More Information]
2020
- Park, J., Chi, T. (2020). "Banal Apocalypse" An Interview with Author Ta-wei Chi on the New Translation of The Membranes mpp. Screen Bodies, 5(2), 63-70. [More Information]
2019
- Park, J. (2019). Embodied inter-referencing: encounters with and among "Asian" students in the Australian classroom. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 20(2), 271-289. [More Information]
- Park, J. (2019). Sassy Girls: A Transnational Reading of the Monstrous Girlfriend in South Korea, India and the United States. In S. Heijin Lee, Monika Mehta, Robert Ji-Song Ku (Eds.), Pop Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea, (pp. 227-244). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. [More Information]
- Sheehan, R., Park, J., Jou, C., Smith, D., Maddock, P. (2019). Translating Race: Teaching American Concepts and Histories of Race, Ethnicity, and Whiteness in Australia. Australasian Journal of American Studies (AJAS), 38(2), 17-49.
2018
- Park, J. (2018). Crossing Over: South Korean Cinema, Oriental Style and Hollywood Cinema. In So-young Kim (Eds.), Korean Cinema: Confronting the World, (pp. 119-143). Seoul: Hyunsilmunhwa Press.
2017
- Park, J. (2017). Making Third Space Home: Asian Americans in the Asia Pacific. The Asian American Literary Review, 8(2), 88-100.
2016
- Elfving-Hwang, J., Park, J. (2016). Deracializing Asian Australia? Cosmetic surgery and the question of race in Australian television. Continuum: A Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 30(4), 397-407. [More Information]
2015
- Park, J. (2015). Adapting Diaspora: China, Australia and the American Dream in Mao's Last Dancer. Australasian Journal of American Studies (AJAS), 33(2), 105-120.
2014
- Park, J. (2014). Fighting Women in Contemporary Asian Cinema: The celebration of the inauthentic in My Wife is a Gangster and Chocolate. In Catherine Driscoll, Meaghan Morris (Eds.), Gender, Media and Modernity in the Asia-Pacific, (pp. 78-92). London: Routledge.
- Park, J. (2014). Orientalism, Genre and Transnational Korean/American Stars. In Kuilan Liu, Elaine Kim (Eds.), Changing Boundaries and Reshaping Itineraries in Asian American Literary Studies, (pp. 143-156). Tianjin, China: Nankai University Press.
- Park, J. (2014). Pacific Crossings:Remaking Bodies and Cultures Through Film. JOMEC Journal, Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, 6, 1-15.
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2013
- Park, J. (2013). Fighting Women in Contemporary Asian Cinema: The Celebration of the Inauthentic in My Wife is a Gangster and Chocolate. Cultural Studies, 27(2), 242-256. [More Information]
2012
- Park, J. (2012). Tragicomic Transformations: Gender, Humor, and the Plastic Body in Two Korean comedies. In A. Horton, J. Rapf (Eds.), A Companion to Film Comedy, (pp. 432-453). West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. [More Information]
2011
- Park, J. (2011). "The China Film": Madame Chiang Kai-shek in Hollywood. Screening The Past, 30, 1-13.
- Park, J. (2011). Ghostliness in Asian Diasporic Film and Literature. Asian Studies Review, 35(1), 105-113. [More Information]
2010
- Park, J. (2010). 1. Amnesia 2. Education 3. Anime Wong 4. Plane Trips 5. Assimilation. Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project, First, (pp. 130 - 139). Austin, United States of America: University of Texas Press.
- Park, J. (2010). Remaking the Korean romcom: A case study of 'Yeopgijeogin geunyeo' and 'My Sassy Girl'. In Daniel Black, Stephen Epstein and Alison Tokita (Eds.), Complicated Currents: Media Flows, Soft Power and East Asia, (pp. 13.1-13.12). Clayton: Monash University ePress.
- Park, J. (2010). Yellow Future: Oriental Style in Hollywood Cinema. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
2008
- Park, J. (2008). Virtual Race: The Racially Ambiguous Action Hero in 'The Matrix' and 'Pitch Black'. In Beltran, M; Fojas, C (Eds.), Mixed Race Hollywood, (pp. 182-202). New York: New York University Press.
2005
- Park, J. (2005). Cibo Matto's Stereotype A: Articulating Asian American Hip Pop. In Dave, Shilpa, LeiLani Nishime, and Tasha Oren (Eds.), East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture, (pp. 292-312). New York: NYU Press.
- Beltran, M., Park, J., Puente, H., Ross, S., Downing, J. (2005). Pressurizing the Media Industry: Achievements and Limitations. In John Downing and Charles Husband (Eds.), Representing Race: Racisms, Ethnicities and Media, (pp. 160-174). London: Sage Publications.
- Park, J., Wilkins, K. (2005). Re-orienting the Orientalist Gaze. Global Media Journal, 4(6), 1-10.
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Selected Grants
2022
- The ideologies and practices of anti-racism in Australia, Smith D, Soutphommasane T, Park J, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)
2011
- Mediating beauty and cosmetic surgery in South Korea, Park J, Academy of Korean Studies/Korean Competitive Research Grant
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