Tyler Gleason
PhD
Tyler Gleason is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne. His thesis is a cultural-historical study of HIV/AIDS in China from the early 1980s through to the early 1990s.
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Thesis
The Cultural Production of HIV/AIDS in China, c. 1983-1992
My thesis examines how Chinese media and public culture discursively produced HIV/AIDS from the early 1980s to the early1990s and its material implications. This study draws on a corpus of extant archival materials ranging from national, provincial, and local newspapers; academic journals ranging from the scientific to the literary; magazines; non-fiction books; Chinese literature including poetry and speculative fiction; and Chinese cinema. In reading HIV/AIDS in and through these materials-as objects, events, phenomena, discourses, and texts-I explore the extent to which HIV/AIDS both affects and becomes affected by changing economic relations, epistemologies of science, technology, and medicine, as well as by structures of sex, sexuality, and gender in China in this period.
Research interests
- Cultural studies
- Science and technology studies
- Gender and sexuality studies
- Sinophone studies
- HIV/AIDS