Dr. ZHAO Jing (趙婧)

Jamie is a global queer media scholar and currently Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural Studies in the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong, HKSAR. She holds a PhD in Gender Studies from Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, and received another PhD in Film and TV Studies from the University of Warwick, UK. Her research explores East Asian media and public discourses on female gender and sexuality in a globalist age. She is the editor of the first English-language anthology exploring Chinese queer television and related celebrity and fan cultures, Queer TV China (HKUP, 2023), and coedited Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan (HKUP, 2017), Contemporary Queer Chinese Art (Bloomsbury, 2023), and the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality (Routledge, 2023). She also (co)edited several special issues for highly selective journals, including Continuum, Feminist Media Studies, and JCMS, on the topics of global media, celebrity and fan studies. She is the founding coeditor of Bloomsbury's ‘Queering China: Transnational Genders and Sexualities’ book series and Routledge's ‘Transdisciplinary Souths’ book series. In addition, she serves on the editorial boards of the ICA-affiliated journal Communication, Culture & Critique, as well as Bloomsbury’s ‘Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies’ book series.