Thomas Barker

Associate Professor, Film and Television, University of Nottingham

Associate Professor in Film and Television at the University of Nottingham Malaysia.

Author of "Indonesian Cinema after the New Order: Going Mainstream" (Hong Kong University Press, 2019) https://hkupress.hku.hk/pro/1728.php and co-editor of "Southeast Asia on Screen: From Independence to Financial Crisis (1945-1998)" (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462989344/southeast-asia-on-screen.

Previously a Visiting Fellow at the College of Communication, National Cheng Chi University, a Visiting Scholar at the School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA, and a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore.

I research and write about the Indonesian and Malaysian film industries, creative industries, Islamic pop culture, and transnational Asian cinema.

Experience

2018–present

Associate Professor, University of Nottingham Malaysia
2012–2018

Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham Malaysia
2011–2012

Visiting Fellow, National University of Singapore

Education

2011

National University of Singapore, PhD Sociology
2005

University of Birmingham, MPhil Contemporary Critical Theory
2003

Queensland University of Technology (QUT), BA Indonesian
2003

Queensland University of Technology (QUT), BAppSc Physics

Publications

2020

Southeast Asia on Screen From Independence to Financial Crisis (1945-1998), Amsterdam University Press
2019

Indonesian Cinema after the New Order: Going Mainstream, Hong Kong University Press
2017

Colonial Mobility and Ambiguity: The Life of Filmmaker Hinatsu/Huyung, TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia

Professional Memberships

Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA)
Foreign Correspondents Club of Malaysia (FCCM)
Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (MBRAS)
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society