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Michelle Ho is an Assistant Professor of Feminist and Queer Cultural Studies in the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She earned a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies and an Advanced Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies from Stony Brook University (SUNY) in 2018. Prior to this, she obtained an M.A.S. in Information, Technology and Society in Asia (ITASIA) from the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo and a B.A. (Honors) in Literature in English from NUS.

Ho’s research focuses on gender, sexuality, affect, emotion, race, ethnicity, media, and popular culture in contemporary East Asia, particularly Japan. She has held visiting positions including postdoctoral fellow at NUS, predoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), research fellow at the University of Tokyo, External Visitor at the Research School of Humanities & the Arts at the Australian National University, and Visiting Scholar at Nanyang Technological University’s Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information. She serves on the steering committee of the Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster supported by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Research Division at NUS and as a Member of the Diversity and Equity Committee at the Association for Asian Studies. Ho teaches across graduate and undergraduate programs in Cultural Studies and Communications and New Media, with interests in topics including sports, East Asian media and popular culture, transnational feminism, media representation, social media, and digital ethnography.