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 cultures of sexuality 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 currently engaged in two ARC-funded projects. 'Sexuality and Social Transformation in Japan' looks at how global movements of people and knowledge are impacting upon Japanese constructs of sexuality and gender. The latest publication from this project, the book Love, Sex and Democracy in Japan during the American Occupation will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012.

Internet History in Australia and the Asia-Pacific compares the development and uses of the Internet in Australia, with those of China, Korea, and Japan. This internationally significant project will provide an up-to-date history of the Internet in the world's most dynamic economic region, the Asia-Pacific. Findings will be highly relevant to Australia's broadband, Internet, mobiles, and media debates and policy, and will be communicated to industry, policymakers, and community, as well as academic audiences through an innovative website, publications, and workshops.

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.

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date