Ien Ang

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Ien Ang is Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney (UWS), Australia, where she was the founding director and is currently an ARC Professorial Fellow. She is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.^{[citation needed]}

Born in Java, and educated in The Netherlands, Ang received her Doctorate in the Social and Cultural Sciences, from the University of Amsterdam in 1990. She is among the global leaders in cultural studies. Her work focuses on media and cultural consumption, the study of media audiences, identity politics, nationalism and globalisation, migration and ethnicity, and issues of representation in contemporary cultural institutions. In 2001 she was awarded the Centenary Medal 'for service to Australian society and the humanities in cultural research'^[1].

Her writing encompasses contemporary Asia and the changing new world (dis)order, Australia-Asia relations, as well as theoretical and methodological issues. She is a prominent public commentator in Australia and a member of the Council of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.^{[citation needed]}

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[edit] Selected Bibliography

On Not Speaking Chinese: Living between Asia and the West, Routledge, 2001
Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World, Routledge, 1996
Desperately Seeking the Audience, Routledge, 1991
Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination, Methuen, 1985
Editor of, Alter/Asians: Asian-Australian Identities in Art, Media and Popular Culture, (with Sharon Chalmers, Lisa Law and Mandy Thomas), Pluto Press, 2000