QUALIFICATIONS

• Ph.D., Discipline of Sociology, Flinders University of South Australia, awarded 2012.
• M.A., Department of Sociology, Flinders University of South Australia, awarded 2008.
• B.A., Department of Government, Department of Sociology, Wesleyan University, awarded 2006.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

• Lecturer (Sociology), School of Creative Industries, University of South Australia, 2016 - Present.
• Research Node Leader, 'Community Reactions to Disasters' (1.6), Hawke EU Centre for Mobilities, Migrations, and Cultural Transformations, University of South Australia, 2015 - 2018
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hawke Research Institute, University of South Australia, 2012 - 2016.
• Associate Lecturer (various), Discipline/Department of Sociology, Flinders University of South Australia, 2008 - 2012.
• Visiting Research Fellow, College of Sociology, Rikkyo University, Japan, 2014.
• Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK, 2017.
• Book Reviews and Interviews Co-Editor, Applied Mobilities, 2017 - Present

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS (selected)

Books

• Hsu, EL (ed.) (2017) Sleep: Critical Concepts in Sociology (4 volume major works set), London and New York: Routledge.
• Elliott, A & Hsu, EL (eds.) (2016) The Global Consequences of Disasters, London and New York: Routledge.
• Lemert, C, Elliott, A, Chaffee, DG &s Hsu, EL (eds.) (2010) Globalization: A Reader, London and New York: Routledge.

Refereed Journal Articles

• Hsu, EL (2019), 'Must disasters be rapidly occurring? The case for an expanded temporal typology of disasters', Time & Society, 28(3): pp. 904-921. 
• Bissell, D., Birtchnell, T., Elliott, A. & Hsu, EL (2018) ‘Autonomous automobilities: The social impacts of driverless vehicles’, Current Sociology, Advance online publication, doi: 10.1177/0011392118816743.
  
• Hsu, EL & Salenius, BM (2017), 'Mobilizing Minds in Working Life: A conversation between Eric L. Hsu and Bo-Magnus Salenius on corporate mobilities and organizational change in the 21st century', Applied Mobilities, 2(2): pp. 215-222.
• Hsu, EL (2017), 'The sociological significance of non-human sleep', Sociology, 51(4): pp. 865-879.
  • Note: Shortlisted for the SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence.
• Hsu, EL (2015), ‘The slow food movement and time shortage: beyond the dichotomy of fast or slow’, Journal of Sociology, 51(3): pp. 628-642.
• Hsu, EL & Elliott A (2015), 'Social acceleration theory and the self', Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 45(4), pp. 397-418.
• Hsu, EL (2014), 'The sociology of sleep and the measure of social acceleration', Time & Society, 23(2): pp. 212-234.

 
Scholarly Book Chapters and Entries

• Hsu, EL (2017) ‘Advancements in the sociology of sleep’ in EL Hsu (ed), Sleep: Critical Concepts in Sociology (4 volume major works set), London and New York: Routledge, pp. 1-24.
• Hsu, EL & Everuss, L (2017) ‘Slow food’, in G. Ritzer and J.M. Ryan (eds.) Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology.
• Hsu, EL, Elliott, A (2016) ‘Expanding boundaries of disaster research’ in A. Elliott, EL Hsu (eds.), The Global Consequences of Disasters, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 3-18.

• Hsu, EL & Elliott, A (2016), 'Accelerated identity: Five theses on the self' in A Elliott, Identity Troubles: An introduction, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 111-130.
• Hsu, EL (2014), 'Globalization' in A Elliott (ed.), Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 192-206.
• Hsu, EL (2013) 'Prelude: Postmodern social theory' in A Elliott, M Katagiri, A Sawai (eds.), Routledge Companion to Contemporary Japanese Social Theory, New York: Routledge, pp. 196-199.
• Hsu, EL (2011) 'Self-Interest' in D Southerton (ed.), Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture, London and Thousand Oaks: Sage Publishing, pp. 1256-1258.
• Hsu, EL (2011) 'New Identities, New Individualism' in A Elliott (ed.), Handbook of Identity Studies, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 129-147.
• Hsu, EL (2010) 'Social Theory and Globalization' in A Elliott (ed.), Routledge Companion to Social Theory, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 203-218.

 
Scholarly Book Reviews

• de Wit, S and Hsu, EL (2014), ‘Media, Place and Mobility’ (review), Media International Australia, 151: p. 204.
• Hsu, EL (2012) ‘The Politics of Sleep: Governing (Un)consciousness in the Late Modern Age’ (review), Contemporary Sociology, 41(5): pp. 681-682.
• Hsu, EL (2012) ‘Consumer Society: Critical Issues and Environmental Consequences’ (review), Health Sociology Review, 21(2), pp. 252-254.
• Hsu, EL (2010) ‘The Mangle in Practice: Science, Society and Becoming’ (review), Contemporary Sociology, 39(2), pp. 193-194.