Associate Professor specialising in culture and media throughout East and Southeast Asia at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China campus. Currently Associate Dean of Global Engagement and Partnerships for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science.
I have received competitive funding for a range of projects from various international organisations, including the Academy of Korean Studies, the Korea Foundation and the Vidal Sassoon Centre for the Study of Antisemitism. In 2022 I was the only non-Chinese recipient of competitive funding from the Zhejiang Philosophy and Social Sciences Program for the project “Uncovering the Historical Jewish Communities of Zhejiang: Regional Cultural Research into the Ningbo and Hangzhou Jewish Presence.”
I have published in top international journals as well as in numerous edited collections. I am editor of the volumes The Korean Wave in Southeast Asia: Consumption and Cultural Production (2015), Thai Cinema: The Complete Guide (2018), and Southeast Asia on Screen: From Independence to Financial Crisis (1945-1997) (2020). My first book, Anti-Semitism in Contemporary Malaysia: Malay nationalism, philosemitism and pro-Israel expressions, was published in 2019, and my second book, Contemporary Thai Horror: A Monstrous Hybrid, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2023.
I have appeared as a guest speaker on television, radio and at film festivals across Asia and have been interviewed in popular media such as The New York Times, The Financial Times, Forbes magazine and Time Magazine. I am regularly invited to join international scholarly networks, give guest lectures, keynotes and to examine PhD theses internationally. In 2020, I was made an external affiliate at the Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, and in 2021 became a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). I convened the international seminar series ‘Antisemitism in East and Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective’. I worked with Yad Vashem to organise the first activity around Holocaust Memorial Day in Malaysia and enable a Holocaust survivor to speak directly to students in mainland China.
Associate Professor specialising in culture and media throughout East and Southeast Asia at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China campus. Currently Associate Dean of Global Engagement and Partnerships for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science.
I have received competitive funding for a range of projects from various international organisations, including the Academy of Korean Studies, the Korea Foundation and the Vidal Sassoon Centre for the Study of Antisemitism. In 2022 I was the only non-Chinese recipient of competitive funding from the Zhejiang Philosophy and Social Sciences Program for the project “Uncovering the Historical Jewish Communities of Zhejiang: Regional Cultural Research into the Ningbo and Hangzhou Jewish Presence.”
I have published in top international journals as well as in numerous edited collections. I am editor of the volumes The Korean Wave in Southeast Asia: Consumption and Cultural Production (2015), Thai Cinema: The Complete Guide (2018), and Southeast Asia on Screen: From Independence to Financial Crisis (1945-1997) (2020). My first book, Anti-Semitism in Contemporary Malaysia: Malay nationalism, philosemitism and pro-Israel expressions, was published in 2019, and my second book, Contemporary Thai Horror: A Monstrous Hybrid, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2023.
I have appeared as a guest speaker on television, radio and at film festivals across Asia and have been interviewed in popular media such as The New York Times, The Financial Times, Forbes magazine and Time Magazine. I am regularly invited to join international scholarly networks, give guest lectures, keynotes and to examine PhD theses internationally. In 2020, I was made an external affiliate at the Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, and in 2021 became a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). I convened the international seminar series ‘Antisemitism in East and Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective’. I worked with Yad Vashem to organise the first activity around Holocaust Memorial Day in Malaysia and enable a Holocaust survivor to speak directly to students in mainland China.
Books
Anti-Semitism in Contemporary Malaysia
Malay Nationalism, Philosemitism and Pro-Israel Expressions
Palgrave Macmillan (2019)
Contemporary Thai Horror Film
A Monstrous Hybrid
Edinburgh University Press (2024)
Thai Cinema
The Complete Guide
Edited by Mary J. Ainslie and Katarzyna Ancuta
Bloomsbury UK (2018)
The Korean Wave in Southeast Asia
Consumption and Cultural Production
Edited by Mary J. Ainslie and Joanne B.Y. Lim
Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (2015)
Southeast Asia on Screen
From Independence to Financial Crisis (1945-1998)
Edited by Gaik Cheng Khoo, Thomas Barker, and Mary J. Ainslie
Amsterdam University Press (2020)
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