Cardiff University

Faculty Member, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies

Senior Lecturer

About

Founder & Editor: JOMEC journal.

Founder: Cardiff University Centre for Interdisciplinary Film and Visual Culture Research (IFVCR)

Director: Postgraduate Research:  School of Journalism, Media & Cultural Studies. Cardiff University.

Director: Race, Representation & Cultural Politics Research Group, Cardiff University.

Co-Director: Re-Constructing Multiculturalism Research Network, Cardiff University.


Editorial Board: Culture Machine.
Editorial Board: Ctrl-Z: New-Media-Philosophy.
Advisory Panel: The Poster.
Editorial Advisory Panel: Global Discourse.

BOOKS:
1. (2013) Rancière and Politics, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
2. (2013) Rancière and Film, Edinburgh University Press.
3. (2013) Rey Chow, A Critical Guide, New York: Peter Lang.
4. (2012) Culture and the Media, London: Palgrave.
5. (2012) Popular Cultural Pedagogy, In Theory, Wiley.
6. (2012) Beyond Bruce Lee: Chasing the Dragon through Film, Philosophy and Popular Culture, London & New York: Wallflower Press.
7. (2011) Studi culturali e Cultura Pop, Selected Writings, edited & translated by Floriana Bernardi. Bari, Italy: Progedit.
8. (2011) Reading Rancière: Critical Dissensus, London: Continuum.
9. (2010) Theorizing Bruce Lee: Film – Fantasy – Fighting – Philosophy, Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi.
10. (2010) The Rey Chow Reader, New York: Columbia University Press.
11. (2008) Deconstructing Popular Culture, London: Palgrave.
12. (2007) Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies: Politics, Theory and Intervention, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
13. (2007) The Truth of Žižek, London: Continuum.
14. (2003) Interrogating Cultural Studies: Theory, Politics and Practice, London: Pluto.

JOURNAL ISSUES EDITED:
1. (2012) JOMEC Journal: ‘Reconnecting Political Disconnection’, issue 1. May/June.
2. (2011) Educational Philosophy and Theory: ‘Popular Cultural Pedagogy, in Theory’.
3. (2010) Social Semiotics, 20:2: ‘Rey Chow and Postcolonial Social Semiotics’.
4. (2010) Postcolonial Studies, 13:4: ‘Rey Chow: Postcoloniality and Interdisciplinarity’.
5. (2009) Parallax 52, Jacques Rancière: In Disagreement.
6. (2000) Parallax 15, In Violence.
7. (1999) Parallax 11, Polemics: Against Cultural Studies.
8. (1999) Parallax 10, Practices of Procrastination.

JOURNAL ISSUES: COMMISSIONING EDITOR/EDITORIAL TEAM:
1. (2001) Parallax 20, The New International, ed., M. McQuillan, (Sept).
2. (2000) Parallax 14, Translators’ Ink, eds., J. Morra and M. Smith, (January).
3. (1999) Parallax 13, On Honour, ed., Sue Golding, (October).
4. (1999) Parallax 12, Passagen 2000, eds., Mieke Bal and D. Vanderburgh, (July).
5. (1998) Parallax 9, Neo-Pragmatism & New Romanticisms, eds., O. Cruz and R. Guins.
6. (1998) Parallax 8, Julia Kristeva 1966-96, ed., G. Pollock, (July).
7. (1998) Parallax 7,Translating ‘Algeria’, eds., J. Morra and M. Smith, (April).
8. (1998) Parallax 6, From Tel Quel to L’infini, ed., P. ffrench, (January).
9. (1997) Parallax 5,Work/Space, eds., S. Ellis and C. Greenblatt, (September).

JOURNAL ARTICLES AUTHORED:
1. (2011) ‘Popular Cultural Pedagogy, In Theory’, Educational Philosophy and Theory.
2. (2011) ‘How to Not Read Žižek’, Global Discourse: A Developmental Journal of Critical Research in Politics and International Relations.
3. (2011) ‘Spectres of Bruce Lee’, UZAK, http://www.uzak.it/ (March)
4. (2010) ‘Cut the Shock Doctrine, Radicalize Common Sense’, Culture Machine: Interzone. http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/issue/view/12
5. (2010) ‘Rey Chow and Postcolonial Social Semiotics’, Social Semiotics, Vol. 20, No. 4, September 2010, 329-341.
6. (2010) ‘Sick man of transl-Asia: Bruce Lee and Rey Chow’s queer cultural translation’, Social Semiotics, Vol. 20, No. 4, September 2010, 393-409.
7. (2010) ‘Rey Chow, Postcoloniality and Interdisciplinarity’, Postcolonial Studies: Culture, Politics, Economy. Vol. 13, No. 4.
8. (2010) ‘Reading Rey Chow’, Postcolonial Studies: Culture, Politics, Economy. 13/4.
9. (2009) ‘Aberrant Pedagogies: JR, QT and Bruce Lee’, Jacques Rancière and Queer Theory, Eds. S. Chambers and M. O’Rourke, Borderlands.
10. (2009), ‘Jacques Rancière: In Disagreement’, Parallax, vol. 15, no. 3, 1–2.
11. (2008) ‘Alterdisciplinarity’, Culture, Theory and Critique, Taylor & Francis/Routledge.
12. (2006) ‘Enter The Žižekian: Bruce Lee, Martial Arts, and the Problem of Knowledge’, EnterText, Volume 6 number 1 Autumn.
13. (2005) ‘Marxism(s) and Post-Marxism(s)’, The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 13: 35-59, Oxford University Press.
14. (2004) ‘The Task of the Transgressor’, Culture Machine, 6.
15. (2004) ‘Marxism(s) and Post-Marxism(s)’, The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 12: 29-57, Oxford University Press.
16. (2003) ‘Promiscuous Fidelity to Revolution, or, revaluing “revolutionary” left intellectualism’, Contemporary Politics: New Agendas and Global Debates, 9:1 (March), 33–44, Carfax, Routledge.
17. (2003) ‘Who Moved My Worth? Management Self-Help Books And You!’, Signs of the Times.
18. (2003) ‘Marxism(s) and Post-Marxism(s)’, The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 11, 17-42, Oxford University Press.
19. (2002) ‘Politics and Ethics From Behind’, Culture Machine, 4.
20. (2001) ‘Between Responsibility and Irresponsibility: Cultural Studies and the price of fish’, Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture & Politics, 14:2 (Nov), 277-293, Carfax, Routledge.
21. (2001) ‘Proper Impropriety: The Proper-Ties of Cultural Studies’, Parallax, 19:7:2 (April-June), 50–65, T&F, Routledge.
22. (2000) ‘In Citing Violence’, Parallax Volume 6, no. 2, 92–103, T&F, Routledge.


BOOK CHAPTERS AUTHORED:
1. (2013), Intersubjective Encounters: Re-Examining the work of Adrian Rifkin, ‘Autodidactics of Bits’, ed. Dana Arnold, IB Tauris.
2. (2013), Martial Arts and Philosophy, ‘When Bruce Lee Meets Alain Badiou’, ed. Damon Young and George Priest, SUNY.
3. (2013) Rancière and Film, ‘Filming Rancière’, ed. Paul Bowman, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
4. (2013), Visual Communication, ‘Politics and Ideology in Transnational Asian Film’, ed. David Machin, Berlin: De Gruyter.
5. (2012), The Legacy of Marxism: Contemporary Challenges, Conflicts, and Developments, ‘How to Not Read Žižek’, ed. Matthew T. Johnson, London: Continuum.
6. (2012), The Blackwell Companion to Hong Kong Cinema, ‘Spectres of Bruce Lee’, ed. Gina Marchetti, London: Blackwell.
7. (2011), The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism, ‘Reception(s) of Theory’, ed. Benoit Dillet, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
8. (2011), Embodied Knowledge: Martial Arts in a Transnational World, ‘The Fantasy Corpus of Martial Arts’, ed. Douglas Farrer and John Whalen-Bridge, New York: SUNY.
9. (2011), Reading Rancière: Critical Dissensus, ‘Reading Rancière: A Critical Dissensus’, co-authored with Richard Stamp, ed. Paul Bowman and Richard Stamp, London: Continuum.
10. (2011), Culture, Media, Protest, ‘Bruce Lee v. Hegemony’, ed. Oliver Marchart, London: Ashgate.
11. (2011) Queer Europe: Europeanizing Queer, ‘Sick Man of Transl-Asia: Bruce Lee and Queer Cultural Translation’, Eds., M. Rosello and S. Dasgupta, Amsterdam and NY: Rodopi.
12. (2010) Martial Arts of the World, Vol. II, ‘The Globalization of Martial Arts’, Eds. Joseph Svinth and Thomas Green, Praeger Publishers: Westport.
13. (2010) Martial Arts of the World, Vol. II, ‘Jeet Kune Do’, Eds. Joseph Svinth and Thomas Green, Praeger Publishers: Westport.
14. (2010) Enduring Resistance: Cultural Theory after Derrida /La Résistance persévère: la théorie de la culture (d’)après Derrida, ‘Deconstruction is a Martial Art’, Eds. S. Houppermans, Amsterdam an New York: Rodopi.
15. (2007) The Truth of Žižek, ‘The Tao of Žižek’, Eds: P. Bowman and R. Stamp, Continuum, ISBN: 9780826490612, pp. 27-44.
16. (2007) The Truth of Žižek, ‘“Is this not precisely” The Truth of Žižek’, Eds: P. Bowman and R. Stamp, Continuum, ISBN: 9780826490612, pp. 1-8.
17. (2006) New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory, ‘Cultural Studies and Slavoj Žižek’, Eds: C. Burchall and G. Hall, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN: 074862208X, pp. 162-177.
18. (2006) Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide, ‘Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe and Post-Marxism’, Ed. J. Wolfreys, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN: 0748624503, pp. 157-167.
19. (2003) Interrogating Cultural Studies: Theory, Politics and Practice, ‘Interrogating Cultural Studies’, Ed. P. Bowman, Pluto Press, ISBN: 0745317146, pp. 1–18.
20. (2002) Cultural Studies, Interdisciplinarity and Translation, ‘“Alarming and calming. Sacred and Accursed”: The Proper Impropriety of Cultural Studies’, Ed. S. Herbrechter, Rodopi, ISBN: 978-90-420-0893-9, pp. 55–72.
21. (2002) The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Modern Criticism and Theory, ‘Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, and Post-Marxism’, Ed. J. Wolfreys, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN: 0748613013, pp. 799–808.
22. (1999) A Dictionary of Cultural Theorists, ‘Umberto Eco’, Eds: E. Cashmore and C. Rojek, Routledge, ISBN: 0340645482, pp. 131-133.
23. (1999) A Dictionary of Cultural Theorists, ‘Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’, Eds: E. Cashmore and C. Rojek, Routledge, ISBN: 0340645482, pp. 443-445.

Lover of martial arts. Instructor of taijiquan and choy lee fut kung fu.

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