DR JINNA TAY joined the Department of Communications and New Media in January of 2019 after more than 20 years away from Singapore. Having grown up in Singapore and growing up all over again in Brisbane, she has deep cultural memories of Singapore and academic practices that are mainly Australian.
She was formerly based at Monash University, in the Master of Communications and Media Studies program for six years teaching across the areas of Communication, Culture and Media studies. Prior to that, she undertook her post-doctoral fellowship at the Centre for Critical & Cultural Studies, at the University of Queensland, as a recipient of Professor Graeme Turner’s Australian Research Centre Federation Fellowship, entitled, What is TV in the era of Post-Broadcast TV? Her project focused on the comparative broadcasting systems in the Asian cities of Singapore, Hong Kong and Taipei with a particular interest in public broadcasters. This fellowship produced articles and a co-edited book with Professor Turner, entitled, Television studies after TV: Understanding television in the Post-broadcast era, Routledge, 2009, which, has been well received. Her Doctoral dissertation explored the textual interrogations between fashion journalism texts and the modern city, and the way both shaped each idea via the negotiations of the readerships, entitled, Looking Modern: Cultural Modernity and Fashion Journalism in Shanghai, Singapore and Hong Kong, 2007.
She has wide ranging research interests in the media, arts and humanities; from cultural and national identities, to material and popular culture and literature, television, film and cities studies. She has published across topics on celebrities and Asian idol, fashion journalism and women identities, Asian television histories and public broadcasting systems. Her latest book is a co-edited project with Professor Turner, entitled, Television Histories in Asia: Issues and Contexts, Routledge, 2016.
Research Projects
Research Grants
2023-2024 - Internship Learning Community: Building a NUS Internship Coordinators Network, ($5,830), CDTL
2020-2022/3 - Fashion Shows and Fashion Media: Identification and Documentation of Singapore Fashion Heritage ($105,300.00), National Heritage Board
2020- Building capacity around Work Integrated learning in CNM and NUS ($4,618) Provost Oustanding Educator Award, CDTL
Television studies/Media Studies
Cultural and national identities
Popular Culture and Material cultures
Media pedagogies
Modernization & Cities
Fashion media and fashion studies
Alternative Media
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
EDITORIAL WORK ON BOOKS
EDITORIAL WORK ON JOURNALS
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
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