For its unique research programs, GCTH invites a group of the outstanding scholars and academics across the world. Representing a dynamic new structure and vision for international engagement and collaboration, GCTH has set up the broad research networks for the integrated research projects of technology and humanities.
Alex Taek-Gwang Lee
Director
He is a professor of Cultural Studies at Kyung Hee University and visiting professor at Jamia Millia Islamia University in India. He is a member of the advisory board for The International Deleuze and Guattari Studies in Asia and the board member of The International Consortium of Critical Theory (ICCT).
Email: tglee@khu.ac.kr
Joff Bradley
Visiting Research Fellow
He is a professor of English and Philosophy in the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan. Joff is a visiting professor at Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi, India
Email: joff@main.teikyo-u.ac.jp
Manoj NY
Visiting Research Fellow
He currently teaches at the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, India. He is also the founding general secretary of Deleuze and Guattari Studies in India Collective which have already organized three international conferences on Deleuze and Guattari in India. and the convener of the World Congress on Deleuze and Guattari held in Delhi.
Email: manojny.net@gmail.com
Toshiya Ueno
Visiting Research Fellow
He is a professor of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies at Wako University, Tokyo.
Email: vyc04344@nifty.com
Felicity Colman
Visiting Research Fellow
She is Professor of Media Arts and Associate Dean of Research for the London College of Fashion at University of the Arts, London. She is a specialist in media forms, creative philosophies, communication theory, and new materialist feminist epistemologies. She teaches and researches forms of creative media practice and has a professional background working life in the creative industries – in fashion and textile design, and working in curatorial roles. Trained as an art historian, she has taught and worked in Higher Education in Australia and in the United Kingdom for over 20 years. Current research focus is on feminist modal ethics.
Email: f.colman@arts.ac.uk
Gregg Lambert
Visiting Research Fellow
He is an International Scholar at Kyung Hee University and Dean’s Professor of Humanities at Syracuse University. After completing his Ph.D., in Comparative Literature and Philosophy under the direction of late French philosopher Jacques Derrida, he joined the Department of English at Syracuse University in 1996, and was later appointed to Full Professor and Chair of English in 2005. In 2008, he left the department to become the Founding Director of the Syracuse University Humanities Center, where he currently holds a distinguished research appointment. He also served as Principal Investigator and Director of the Central New York Humanities Corridor, a regional collaborative research network between Syracuse University, Cornell University, the University of Rochester, and in 2014 Lambert established the permanent endowment for the program through a 3.5 million dollar award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Email: glambert@syr.edu
Ian Buchanan
Visiting Research Fellow
He is an Australian cultural theorist, currently serving as Director of the Institute for Social Transformation Research based at University of Wollongong, Australia. He has published works on Michel de Certeau, Gilles Deleuze and Fredric Jameson. He is the founding editor of the Deleuze and Guattari Studies journal, as well as a number of important book series dedicated to the work of Gilles Deleuze
Email: ibuchana@uow.edu.au
David R. Cole
Visiting Research Fellow
He is an Australian researcher in the fields of literacies, globalization, critical thinking, the philosophy of education and Gilles Deleuze. He is an associate professor in Literacies, English and ESL in the Centre for Educational Research as the Globalization theme leader at University of Western Sydney, Australia.
Email: david.cole@westernsydney.edu.au
Rick Dolphijn
Visiting Research Fellow
He is Associate Professor with an emphasis on theories of Arts and Society at Utrecht University the Netherlands. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong (2017-2023) and a Visiting Professor at the Unversity of Barcelona (2019/2020). His books include Foodscapes (Eburon/University of Chicago Press 2004), New Materialism: Interviews and Cartographies (Open Humanities Press 2012, with Iris van der Tuin) which will soon be available in Korean (Munhakdongne Publishing Group). His academic work has appeared in journals like Continental Philosophy Review, Angelaki, Rhizomes, Collapse, and Deleuze and Guattari Studies. He edited (with Rosi Braidotti) This Deleuzian Century: Art, Activism, Life (Brill/Rodopi 2014/5) and Philosophy after Nature (2017), and most recently Michel Serres and the Crises of the Contemporary (Bloomsbury Academic 2019/20). His new monography, The Philosophy of Matter: a Meditation, will also appear with Bloomsbury Academic.
Email: R.Dolphijn@uu.nl
Irving Goh
Visiting Research Fellow
He is President’s Assistant Professor of Literature at the National University of Singapore and received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University, after which he served as Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Cornell’s Society for the Humanities, and as Mellon Postdoc Fellow at the Center for the Humanities and the French Department at Tufts University. In 2015, he received the Newton Fellowship awarded by the Royal Society and the British Academy for the Humanities and the Social Sciences. He is the author of The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject (Fordham UP, 2014) and L’existence prépositionnelle (Galilée, 2019), co-editor with Verena Andermatt Conley of Nancy Now (Polity, 2014), and editor of French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK (Routledge, 2019). The Deconstruction of Sex, a work in collaboration with Jean-Luc Nancy, will appear with Duke UP in the fall of 2021. His articles on contemporary French thought and French literature have also been published by journals including diacritics, MLN, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, SubStance, Theory & Event, Cultural Critique, and Theory Culture & Society.
Email: irving.goh@nus.edu.sg
Hsien-hao Sebastian Liao
Visiting Research Fellow
He is Dean of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences and Distinguished Professor of English and comparative literature at National Taiwan University. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and was post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University. His main research interests include, comparative poetics, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Deleuze and New Materialism, techno-humanities, Sinophone film and the Chinese maritime culture, among others. He has published books and articles on the above subjects and is currently working three projects “Deleuze and Taoism”, “AI, Humanity and Creativity” and “The Invisible China”
Email: xliao@ntu.edu.tw
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