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Robert Cettl (HBA, GCTESOL, GDIS, MTESOL) is a faculty member in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Jinan, Shandong, China. There, he teaches EFL / Inter-Cultural Communication [IC], researching auto-ethnographic methodologies in contemporary Chinese IC pedagogic practice / course design. A former SAR Research Fellow at Australia's National Film & Sound Archive [NFSA] in Canberra, his film non-fiction scholarship is published in the USA by McFarland & Co. Inc. (Serial Killer Cinema, Terrorism in American Film) and Bloomsbury Academic (in the anthology Murders & Acquisitions). His writing on representations of disability in Australian film was published online in Australian journal Overland. https://www.robertcettl.com/
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“Being In Time”: China, Place Memory & Pedagogy – From Xinjiang To Shanghai

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This film explores foreign EFL teacher identity construct dialectics in contemporary China, qualified by China/West geo-political tensions.
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