Gilbert Caluya
Gilbert Caluya is currently completing his PhD on the spatial politics of everyday fear with the Gender and Cultural Studies Department, University of Sydney where he has lectured on postcolonial feminism and youth cultures. His honours research – an autoethnography of anti-Asian racism on Sydney’s gay scene – received the University of Sydney Medal and the Australian Gay and Lesbian Archives Thesis Prize in 2003. Gilbert’s research interests include: gay Asian diasporas; affect and the body; mediated communities; globalization, migration and violence; culture and ethics. His research draws on postcolonialism and critical race theory; feminist and queer theory; cultural politics; Deleuze, Guattari and Foucault; philosophies of emotion and affect; cultural geography; and pragmatic semiotics.