Paul Bowman

I research, write and teach about cultural studies, popular culture, cultural theory, cultural politics, ‘The East’ in Western Culture, and martial arts. I am Director of The Race, Representation and Cultural Identity Research Group at Cardiff University, and on the Editorial Board of Culture Machine.

I am author of:

*Post-Marxism Versus Cultural Studies (Edinburgh UP 2007)
*Deconstructing Popular Culture (Palgrave, 2008)
*Theorizing Bruce Lee (Rodopi, 2009, forthcoming)
*Bruce Lee, Differently (Wallflower Press, forthcoming)
*Popular Culture (Sage, forthcoming)

I am Editor of:

* Interrogating Cultural Studies (Pluto Press, 2003)
* The Truth of Žižek (Continuum, 2007)
* The Rey Chow Reader (Columbia University Press, 2010)
* Reading Ranciere (Continuum, 2011)

I am also editor of numerous issues of academic journals, most recently:

* Jacques Ranciere: In Disagreement (Parallax, 2009)
* Rey Chow: Postcoloniality and Interdisciplinarity (Social Semiotics, 2010)

I have published articles in these journals:

* Borderlands
* Contemporary Politics
* Contemporary Political Theory
* Culture Machine
* Culture, Theory and Critique
* EnterText
* Parallax
* Social Semiotics
* Strategies

I have contributed chapters to these books:

* A Dictionary of Cultural Theorists (1999)
* Cultural Studies, Interdisciplinarity and Translation (2002)
* Interrogating Cultural Studies (2003)
* Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory (2006)
* New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory (2006)
* The Truth of Zizek (2007)
* Enduring Resistance: Cultural Theory After Derrida (2009)
* The Rey Chow Reader (2010)
* Martial Arts in the Modern World (2010)
* Queer Europe (2010)