Olivia is a member of the ARC Cultural Research Network and Executive Member of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and Resident at the Taipei Artists' Village in Taiwan.  Olivia has also worked on a number of film and arts festivals across Australia including the Sydney Film Festival and the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and is a member of Metro magazine's Editorial Board for Asian cinema. She is the author of The Chinese Exotic: Modern Diasporic Femininity (Hong Kong University Press, 2007) and co-editor (with Sean Metzger) of Futures of Chinese Cinema: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures (Intellect Press, 2009).

Film in East and Southeast Asia (esp. Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and Singapore), Asian Australian literature, film and cultural production, Australian cinema, new media in Asia and Asian cultural studies.

ARC Discovery Project (2009-2011), The History of Asian Australian Cinema: Diaspora, Policy and Ethics (with Audrey Yue and Belinda Smaill)

Centre for Advanced Studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific

ARC Cultural Research Network

ARC Asia Pacific Futures Network

Asian Australian Studies Research Network

Books (Authored, Research)

• Khoo, O. 2007. The Chinese Exotic: Modern Diasporic Femininity. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

Book Chapters (Authored, Research Quality)

• Khoo, O. 2007. Asia the Invincible: Discourses of Regionalism in Dong fang bu bai 2: zhi feng yun zai qi (The East is Red) and Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). In How East Asian Films Are Reshaping National Identities: Essays on the Cinemas of China, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong, eds Andrew Jackson, Michael Gibb and Dave White, 221-244. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellon.
• Khoo, O. 2006. Love in Ruins: Spectral Bodies in Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love. In Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation and Chinese Cultures, eds Larissa Heinrich and Fran Martin, 235-252. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
• Khoo, O. 2003. Sexing the City: Malaysia’s New 'Cyberlaws' and Cyberjaya’s Queer Success. In Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia, eds Chris Berry, Fran Martin and Audrey Yue, 222-244. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Refereed Articles (Scholarly Journals)

• Khoo, O. 2008. Cinemas of value: multicultural realism in Asian Australian cinema. Studies in Australian Cinema 2(2): 141-156.
• Khoo, O. 2006. Slang Images: On the ‘Foreignness’ of Contemporary Singaporean Films. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 7(1): 81-98.
• Khoo, O. 2006. Telling Stories: The Sacrificial Asian in Australian Cinema. Journal of Intercultural Studies 27(1-2): 45-63.
• Khoo, O. 2002. Whiteness and The Australian Fiancé: Framing the Ornamental Text in Australia. Hecate 27(2): 68-85.