Josephine HO (Taiwan)

Title of Speech:  Shan-Zhai: Economic/Cultural Production through the Cracks of Globalization

Josephine Ho is Distinguished Professor of The Center for the Study of Sexualities, Department of English at National Central University, Chungli,Taiwan (http://sex.ncu.edu.tw ).  She founded and continues to head the Center for the Study of Sexualities at National Central University widely-known for both its activism and intellectual stamina.  She has been writing cultural criticism on a wide array of subjects, most notably gender/sexuality issues, since the early 1990s and has been working to promote the institutionalization of cultural studies in the academy.  She served as president of Cultural Studies Association, Taiwan 2005-2007.