Isolde Standish is an Australian and British academic film theorist who specialises on East Asia (mainly Japan and South Korea).
Mostly known for her works on Japanese Cinema,[1][2] she is currently an Emerita Reader (Professor Emeritus) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, England and teaches Post-War Cinema and the Avant-Garde at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
She has been awarded numerous prizes and grants, including the Ouseley Memorial Scholarship, a Japan Foundation scholarship, an AHRC Research Leave Award and a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship in 2014.
At SOAS, she has been the lead convenor for the master's degree in Global Cinemas and the Transcultural and supervised a number of PhD students.
In 2018, Standish accepted the Ishibashi Foundation Visiting Professorship in Japanese Art History at Heidelberg University.