Dr Carol Poon

Dr Carol Poon is Chairman of the Society of Transcultural Studies and Honorary Professor at Nagasaki Wesleyan University. She earned her PhD in International Cultural Studies from Tohoku University with a Japanese Government scholarship, following an MPhil in Japanese Studies at The University of Hong Kong, where she studied Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization. Poon has taught and conducted research at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Waseda University. After returning to Hong Kong, she joined The Open University of Hong Kong (now Hong Kong Metropolitan University), where she developed programs and established a Center for Japanese Language and Cultural Studies, focusing on interdisciplinary research in cultural studies, gender studies, and globalization theory.