
Celia Lam
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Position:Professor
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College:College of Liberal Arts
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Office:GEH A217
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Educational Background
Ph.D., University of Sydney
Master of Film and Digital Image, University of Sydney
B.Media in Screen Production, Macquarie University
Biography
Professor Celia Lam joined the College of Liberal Arts at Wenzhou-Kean University in August 2025. She researches popular culture, with an emphasis on the celebrity-industrial complex and the commodification of celebrity dynamics. Her monographs and edited volumes have been published by Routledge, Brill, Wiley, Bloomsbury, and University of Iowa Press. She has published articles in leading journals such as Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Creative Industries Journal, Celebrity Studies Journal, and Global Media and China. She has served as a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Peer Review College (2022-2025), and has peer reviewed for top journals such as Social Media and Society, and International Journal of Cultural Studies. Currently, she sits on the editorial board of Celebrity Studies Journal, Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, and Persona Studies Journal, and the Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies series of Bloomsbury Press.
Academic Experience
University of Nottingham Ningbo China:
Assistant Professor, then Associate Professor, then Professor of Media and Cultural Studies (October 2016 – August 2025)
Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Exchange, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (September 2019 – December 2022; 2024)
Interim Dean of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (2023)
University of Notre Dame Australia:
Lecturer in the Discipline of Media, Communications & Film (2014-2016)
Associate Lecturer in the Discipline of Media, Communications & Film (2011-2012)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong:
Adjunct Assistant Professor and Endeavour Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies (September 2012 - March 2013)
Research Interests
Popular culture
Celebrity studies
Fan studies
Impact of digital media on aesthetics, media production and consumption
Selected Recent Publications
Books
Lam, C., & Raphael-Luu, J. Eds. (2025). Celebrity Bromance and Comradery Capital in Asia. Bloomsbury.
Lam, C., & Raphael, J. (2022). Celebrity Bromance: Constructing, Interpreting and Utilising Personas. Routledge.
Lam, C., Raphael, J., Middlemost, R., & Balanzategui, J. Eds. (2022). Fame and Fandom: Functioning on and offline. University of Iowa Press
Book chapters
Lam, C (2025). Bromance in action: tracing the on/off screen interdependencies of the Sheen/Tennant bromance. In Cuntz-Leng, V. Ed. Heaven, Hell, and Everything In-Between: Critical Perspectives on Good Omens. Bücher-Verlag.
Lam, C. (2025). Crafting Visibility: Authenticity, Intimacy and Networked Relations in Chinese Online Celebrity Culture. In Rawnsley, G.R., Rawnsley, M.T., & Ma, Y. Eds. Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media 2nd Edition. Routledge.
Lam, C., & Raphael-Luu, J. (2025). Comradery Capital: Commodified celebrity interactions in Crazy Rich Asians cast. In Lam, C., & Raphael-Luu, J. Eds. Celebrity Bromance and Comradery Capital in Asia. Bloomsbury.
Journal special issues
Chen, Z.T., and Lam, C (eds.). (2023). Chinese Fandoms, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 41.
Moss-Wellington, W., Lam, C*., & Gilardi, F (eds.). (2022). Media and Fakery, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. 36 (3). (*corresponding author)
Brown, M.S., & Lam, C (eds.). (2021). Spaces of Play, Culture, Theory and Critique, 62(2).
Journal articles
Gilardi, F., & Lam, C. (2024 [2022]). New perspective on UGC, PGC, and OGC: motivating factors of Chinese co-creators’ engagement with international television series. Creative Industries Journal, 17 (3), 551-566. (online first 2022).
Song, Y., Gilardi, F., & Lam, C. (2023). Building culturally sustainable communities. Community museums and transmedia storytelling. Museum Management and Curatorship, 39 (1), 2-19.
Raphael, J., Lam, C. (2022). Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock: Person and Promotion. Celebrity Studies,13 (2), 171-184.
A full publication list can be found at ResearchGate:
College Programs
- Communication B.A. (Public Relations)
- Psychology B.A.
- English B.A. – English in Global Settings Option