Abraham Overbeeke (Bram) received his Research Master’s in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam and is currently finishing his PhD in Humanities at HKBU where he also teaches. He has previously taught at the U. of Amsterdam and Groningen University. His research focuses on the contradictions of temporal experience in several 21st century East Asian contexts as they are thought through in narrative cinema of the region. His teaching areas include science fiction film and literature, animation, horror and monsters, film analysis, globalization, and cultural studies research methods.