Julian Ward

Dr Julian Ward is a senior lecturer in Chinese. He has a long history here at the University of Edinburgh, having achieved a first-class MA here in Chinese in 1990 and a PhD in 1997. He was appointed as a lecturer in 1998 and achieved senior lecturer status in 2009.

Aside from his work as a researcher, Dr Ward is noted for his teaching work. He regularly works with students in postgraduate film studies as well as his core specialism in Chinese literature and film.  His skill as a tutor was recognised with a teaching award even as a postgraduate in 1994, and he has regularly been nominated for the EUSA Teaching Awards since their inception. He served as Senior Tutor for the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures from 2008 to 2014.

He is the co-editor of The Chinese Cinema Book and was associate editor of The Journal of Chinese Cinemas from its first edition in 2006, through to 2016.

Dr Ward researches mainly in the field of Chinese Cinema and has been involved in several knowledge exchange projects and media events through this work. He also works in classical Chinese literature, with a specialism in the travel and geographical writer Xu Xiake. He was invited to Bejing to give a paper on the 420^th anniversary of Xu Xiake’s death in 2007.