Olivia Khoo
Olivia Khoo is a research fellow at Curtin University, Western Australia. She has previously taught Film and Media at the University of New South Wales and Cultural Studies at Melbourne University and the University of Technology, Sydney. Her book, The Chinese Exotic: Modern Diasporic Femininity was published by Hong Kong University Press in 2007, and she is currently co-editing a volume with Sean Metzger entitled Futures of Chinese Cinema: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures. She is also collaborating on an ARC Discovery project with Audrey Yue and Belinda Smaill entitled ‘The History of Asian-Australian Cinema: Diaspora, Policy and Ethics’. Olivia has been a Visiting Scholar at the Asia Research Institute in Singapore, a Resident at the Taipei Artists Village in Taiwan, and has worked on a number of film and arts festivals across Australia including the Sydney Film Festival and the Melbourne Queer Film Festival.