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Dr Christina Lee

PhD in Communication Studies (Murdoch University).

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    • Role:
    • Lecturer
    • Department:
    • Dept of Communication & Cultural Studies
    • Location:
    • Building 208 410
    • Telephone:
    • +61 8 9266 2253

Christina Lee is Lecturer in Communication and Cultural Studies at Curtin University. She specialises in Cinema and Cultural Studies.

Before entering academia, Christina worked in a variety of roles in the media industry. Previous experiences included interviewing gold medal athletes at the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games in the capacity of reporter, interning at a Hollywood production house on Sunset Boulevard, and working as research consultant and videographer on performance-video-installation art pieces and short films.

Research Interests

Christina specialises in Cinema Studies and Cultural Studies. Her areas of research include nostalgia and memory studies, youth cinema (specifically representations of Generation X) and fandom. In addition to her long-standing love affair with the 1980s golden era of teen films, she is particularly interested in Chinese cinema and cinematic tourism. She has published in the disciplines of Cinema and Cultural Studies on subjects ranging from women’s representations in contemporary Chinese cinema to cyberterrorism.

Research Projects

Christina is working on a new research project that looks at cinematic tourism, fandom and the fantastical. Her publication on Harry Potter-inspired tourism is forthcoming. She is also researching representations of serial killers in popular culture. Her monograph Screening Generation X: The Politics and Popular Memory of Youth in Contemporary Cinema was published in 2010 (Ashgate, UK), and her edited anthology Violating Time: History, Memory, and Nostalgia in 2008 (Continuum Books, USA).

Teaching - Undergraduate

Christina teaches in undergraduate units in Literary & Cultural Studies and Professional Writing. Units taught include "Reading the City", "Imagined Spaces", "Popular Music and Identity", "Narrating Selves".

Teaching - Postgraduate

Christina is currently supervising PhD students who are working in film studies, cultural studies and creative writing.

Memberships

Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA); Association for Cultural Studies (ACS).

Publications

Books (Authored, Research)

  • Lee, C. 2010. Screening Generation X. The Politics and Popular Memory of Youth in Contemporary Cinema. Alsershot, UK: Ashgate.

Book Chapters (Authored, Research Quality)

  • Lee, C. 2008. Dot-com,dot-bomb: (cyber)terror on the internet. In The Revolution Will Not Be Downloaded: Dissent in the digital age, eds Tara Brabazon, 213-222. Oxford, United Kingdom: Chandos Publishing.
  • Lee, C. 2008. "We'll Always Have Hong Kong": Uncanny spaces and Disappearing Memories in the Films of Wong Kar Wai. In Violating Time: History, Memory, and Nostalgia in Cinema, eds Christina Lee, 124-141. New York and London: Continuum.
  • Lee, C. 2008. Introduction. In Violating Time: History, Memory, and Nostalgia in Cinema, eds Christina Lee, 1-11. New York and London: Continuum.
  • Lee, C. 2005. Party people in the house(s): The hobos of history. In Liverpool of the South Seas: Perth and Its Popular Music, eds Tara Brabazon, 43-52. Perth, WA: University of Western Australia Press.

Refereed Articles (Scholarly Journals)

  • Lee, C. 2007. Going nowhere? The Politics of Remembering (and Forgetting) Molly Ringwald. Cultural Studies Review 13: 89-104.
  • Lee, C. 2005. Lock and load (up): The action body in the matrix. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 19(4): 559-569.

Minor Creative Works

  • Lee, C. 2005. TTS Australia: Critical Reader. Perth: PICA.