Professor Casey M.K. Lum, Ph.D., Department of Communication
Abridged Vitae (February 2001)

Research and Teaching Areas: Culture and communication; Asian and Asian Pacific American media and culture; intercultural communication; global, international and comparative media systems; media ecology; media education; mass and telecommunications.

Education: Ph.D. (Media Ecology/Culture and Communication, 1989, New York University); M.A. (Media Studies, The New School for Social Research, 1984); B.A. (Communication with Minor in Film Media, Hong Kong Baptist University, 1980)

Current Teaching Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, William Paterson University; Faculty Member, M.A. in Communication and Media Studies Program.

Special Curricular Development Pertaining to Asia Studies: Developed and taught "Media and Culture in Taiwan," a special course/study tour to Taiwan, Summer 1999; and "Telecommunications and Change in Asia," a special course/study tour to Hong Kong and Taiwan, Summer 2000

Publications Pertaining to Asian or Asian Pacific American Studies (publications not pertaining to Asian or Asian Pacific American studies furnished upon request):

Book
Lum, Casey M.K. (1996). In Search of a Voice: Karaoke and the Construction of Identity in Chinese America. Foreword by Neil Postman. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Refereed Journal Articles
Lum, Casey M.K. (in press). An Intimate Voice from Afar: A Brief History of New York's Chinese-Language Wireless Radio. Journal of Radio Studies.

Lum, Casey M.K. (1999). On the Role of Media Technology in Communication Education: A Faustian Bargain? [in Chinese]. Mass Communication Research, 58, 269-283.

Lum, Casey M.K. (1998). On the Ambiguity of Identity Construction in Karaoke [in Chinese]. Mass Communication Research, 56, 65-83.

Wachtel, Edward, and Lum, Casey M.K. (1991). The Influence of Chinese Script on Painting and Poetry. Et Cetera: A Review of General Semantics, 48(3), 275-291.

Lum, Casey M.K. (1991). Communication and Cultural Insularity: The Chinese Immigrant Experience. Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 8(1), 91-101.

Lum, Casey M.K. (1991). An Asian Interpretation of Communication Education in the United States." Association for Communication Administration Bulletin, October, 57-61. [Speech]


Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
Lum, Casey M.K. (2000). Regionalism and Communication: Exploring Chinese Immigrant Perspectives. In Alberto Gonzalez, Marsha Houston & Victoria Chen (Eds.), Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication, 3rd ed. (pp. 235-241). Los Angeles: Roxbury. [The 1994 edition of this book won the 1994 Distinguished Scholarship Award of National Communication Association's International and Intercultural Communication Division.]

Lum, Casey M.K. (1998). Chinese Cable Television: Social Activism, Community Service, and Nonprofit Media in New York's Chinatown. In Gary Gumpert and Susan Drucker (Eds.), The Huddled Masses: Communication and Immigration (pp. 121-144). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Lum, Casey M.K. (1998). The Karaoke Dilemma: On the Interaction Between Collectivism and Individualism in the Karaoke Space. In Toru Mitsui and Shuhei Hosokawa (Eds.), Karaoke Around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing (pp. 166-177). London: Routledge.

Yang, Y.S., M.K. Lum, and G.Y. Dai. (1979). Brief Biographies of Hong Kong Film Workers [in Chinese]. Hong Kong Cinema Survey 1946-68 (pp. 101-121). Hong Kong: The Urban Council.

Lum, Casey M.K. (In press). Karaoke and the Construction of Identity. In Thuylinh N. Tu (Ed.), TechniColor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life. New York, NY: New York University Press. [This is not peer-reviewed. With consent from the author and copyrights granted by the publisher, the editor composed this chapter with excerpts from Lum's book (1996).]

Other Publications
Lum, Casey M.K. (2000, May 15). What Is A Chinese Communication Question: A Proposal for a Chinese Media Ecology Cultural History Project. Communication Research Newsletter, 22, 11-13 (published in Chinese by the National Chengchi University, Taiwan).

Lum, Casey M.K. (1995). Karaoke as Media/tion of Culture: An Asian American Immigrant Experience. In Risa Morimoto (Ed.), Asians in America 1995 Conference Proceedings (pp. 145-147). New York: New York University EQUAL Commission.

Lum, Casey M.K. (1992). A book review of Joseph Man Chan and Chin-Chuan Lee, Mass Media and Political Transition: The Hong Kong Press in China's Orbit (New York: Guilford Publications, 1991). In Asian Journal of Communication, 2(1), 129-131.

Lum, Casey M.K. (1990). A translation from Chinese of two articles on children's theatre in China by 1) Lin Taopei and Jia Fei and 2) Luo Ying. In Lowell Swortzell (Ed.), International Guide to Children's Theatre and Educational Theatre: A Historical and Geographical Overview and Source Book (pp. 48-58). New York: Greenwood Press.

Lum, M.K. (1989, June 8). Small-Channel Communication in China's Democracy Movement [in Chinese], World Journal, p. 23. [News analysis]

Held and are holding numerous elected offices at various professional association, including President, Association for Chinese Communication Studies, 1997-1998

Currently working on a book project (to be written in Chinese), tentatively titled Chinese Media Ecology.