DrJane Park

Dr. Jane Chi Hyun Park is a cultural studies scholar trained in literary and media studies. Her work looks at the impact of globalisation in popular media, with a focus on South Korea and East Asian diasporas in the US and Australia. She teaches courses that help develop cultural and racial literacies through a holistic, intersectional approach foregrounding the body, emotions, and lived experience.

Her book, Yellow Future: Oriental Style in Hollywood Cinema (Minnesota University Press, 2010) explored how East Asia became more visible in Hollywood films, from the 1980s to the 2000s, with the economic rise of Japan, China and the NICs and the increasingly global appeal of East Asian popular culture. Subsequent research on Asian and Asian diasporic presence in film, media and education has been published in a wide range of academic journals and anthologies.

Alongside an ongoing interest in cultural representations of Korean and Asian diasporic women, Jane's work has moved toward policy and pedagogy. Since 2022, she has been part of an interdisciplinary research team funded by the Australia Research Council to analyse ideologies, practices and policies of anti-racism in Australia from the 1990s to the present. Jane is currently writing a memoir on teaching and healing.