Rate My Professor Fran Martin

Professor Fran Martin is Professor of Cultural Studies in the School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Melbourne. She earned her BA (Hons) and PhD from the University of Melbourne and is fluent in Mandarin. Before joining the University of Melbourne, she lectured in the Cinema Studies program at La Trobe University. Martin was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship for a five-year project on the social and subjective experiences of young Chinese women studying in Australia, documented in her recent monograph Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West (Duke University Press, 2022). She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA, elected 2024) and co-convenor of the Asian Cultural Research Hub.

Martin's research focuses on gender and mobility in Asia, particularly the subjective and gendered dimensions of international student mobility for Chinese women. Her earlier scholarship examines transnational Chinese youth and media cultures, including television, film, literature, and internet culture in the contemporary transnational Chinese sphere, with emphasis on representations and cultures of gender and queer sexuality. Key publications include Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2010); Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia (co-authored with Tania Lewis and Wanning Sun, Duke University Press, 2016); Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film and Public Culture (Hong Kong University Press, 2003); AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities across Asia (co-edited with Peter A. Jackson, Mark McLelland, and Audrey Yue, University of Illinois Press, 2008); and Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia (co-edited with Chris Berry and Audrey Yue, Duke University Press, 2003). With over 127 scholarly works and more than 2900 citations on Google Scholar, her contributions have significantly shaped cultural studies, gender studies, and migration scholarship.