Biography of Speaker

Prof. Castillo is an Assistant Professor in Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University. He holds PhD in Department of Cultural Studies (Lingnan University), and Masters in Cultural Studies (The University of Sydney). His research teaching interests are: transnationality; migration and mobility; the critique of nationalism and globalisation; China’s changing ethnoscapes with a focus on foreign presence in the country; Africa-China relations; (cultural) research methodologies; globalisation of social movements; ethnography; the politics of knowledge production; the cultural politics of media representations of race/ethnicity; critical theory; Inter-Asia cultural studies; and Chinese social development.