Associate Professor Mark McLelland

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

Location: 19:2019
Email: markmc@uow.edu.au
Phone: +61 02 4221 4305

Mark McLelland is a sociologist and cultural historian of Japan specialising in the history of sexuality, gender theory and new media. His recent publications have focused on the postwar history of Japanese queer cultures and the development of the Internet in Japan, especially the use of the Internet and other new media by minority communities in Japan and throughout Asia. He is a founding member of the AsiaPacifiQueer research collective which organised the Genders, Sexualities & Rights: 1st International Conference of Asian Queer Studies in Bangkok in 2005. He recently organised a workshop and an edited collection on Japanese Transnational Fandoms with Fran Martin (U Melb), and is working on a long term book project tentatively entitled: 'Kissing is a symbol of Democracy: Dating Democracy and Romance in Japan Under the Occupation 1945-52. Mark was the 2007/08 Toyota Visiting Professor of Japanese at the Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan.

Major Publications include the books:

• 2005: Queer Japan from the Pacific War to The Internet Age (Rowman & Littlefield
• 2000: Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan: Cultural Myths and Social Realities (RoutledgeCurzon)

and the edited collections:

• 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)
• 2008: Internationalizing Internet Studies (Routledge; with Gerard Goggin)
• 2007: Queer Voices from Japan (Lexington; with Katsuhiko Suganuma and James Welker) 
• 2006 ‘Queer Japan’ special edition of Intersections;
• 2005: Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan (Routedge; with Romit Dasgupta)
• 2003: Japanese Cybercultures (Routledge; with Nanette Gottlieb)

At UOW he teaches in the Sociology Program and is available to supervise postgraduate students on topics relating to Japanese history and popular culture as well as the history of sexuality, gender theory and new media.

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