Asia Pop Lecture Series: Dr. Thomas Baudinette

Activity Type: 
Lecture
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Date: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 - 18:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
202 Frick Fine Arts

Dr. Thomas Baudinette is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies and International Studies at Macquarie University. A cultural anthropologist, his research primarily explores how popular media and fandom culture inform knowledge about gender and sexuality across East and Southeast Asia. He is the author of Regimes of Desire: Young Gay Men, Media, Masculinity in Tokyo (University of Michigan Press, 2021) and Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture (Bloomsbury, 2023). He i currently working on his third book, tentatively titled Queer Fantasies of Asia: Japanese and Korean Media Fandom in the Philippines.

UCIS Unit: 
Asian Studies Center
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