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Professor Meaghan Morris is Professor Emeritus of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, affiliated with the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies in the School of Humanities and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She holds a BA in English and French from the University of Sydney, a Maîtrise ès Lettres (MèsL) from the University of Paris-VIII (Vincennes), and a PhD. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) and the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities (FHKAH), Morris is recognized as a figure of world stature in cultural studies. Her career includes appointments as Chair Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, where she was also Founding Director of the Hong Kong Studies Programme, and Chair of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society from 2012 to 2016. She began her professional life in journalism before transitioning to academia, contributing significantly to the development of cultural studies in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.

Morris's research specializations encompass cultural studies, cinema studies, martial arts studies, inter-Asian cultural studies, and Australian cultural history, with a focus on history in popular culture, action genres, rhetorics of place, locality, and nation under colonial and transnational conditions. Key publications include 'Banality in Cultural Studies' (1988), 'The Pirate's Fiancée: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism' (1988), 'Too Soon, Too Late: History in Popular Culture' (1998), 'Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema' (2005, co-edited), 'Identity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture' (2006), 'Creativity and Academic Activism: Instituting Cultural Studies' (2012), 'New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society' (2013, co-edited), 'Cultural Pedagogies and Human Conduct' (2015, co-authored), and 'The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies' (2024, co-edited). With over 6,900 citations on Google Scholar, her scholarship has profoundly shaped transnational cultural analysis, including editorial contributions to journals like Inter-Asia Cultural Studies and public engagements on topics such as institutional culture and media in Asia-Pacific contexts.