Professor Ien Ang

Ien Ang is Distinguished Professor of Cultural Studies and currently an Australian Research Council Australian Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney. She is one of the leaders in cultural studies worldwide, with interdisciplinary work spanning many areas of the humanities and social sciences. Her books, including Watching Dallas, Desperately Seeking the Audience and On Not Speaking Chinese, are recognised as classics in the field and her work has been translated into many languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Turkish, German, Korean, and Spanish. Her most recent book, co-authored with Gay Hawkins and Lamia Dabboussy, is The SBS Story: The Challenge of Cultural Diversity (UNSW Press, 2008)

Ien's work deals broadly with patterns of cultural flow and exchange in our globalised world, focusing on issues such as the formation of audiences and publics, the politics of identity and difference, migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism in Australia and Asia, and issues of representation in contemporary cultural institutions.