ADIL Johan is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Malaya (UM). His research on music and popular culture intersects with issues of interculturalism, cosmopolitanism, intimacy, affect and gender, focussing on the Malay world and Southeast Asia. He is author of Cosmopolitan Intimacies, a book on Independence-era Malay film music (NUS Press, 2018); was an invited special section editor for the Journal of Intercultural Studies (2019); published a study on Malaysian popular music and social cohesion in Kajian Malaysia (2019); and is co-editor of Made in Nusantara: Studies in popular music (Routledge, 2021). He is the current Chair for the Southeast Asian branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-SEA). As a performing and recording artist he sings and plays saxophone for AYOP, Nadir and the Adil Johan Quintet (AJQ). 

ADIL Johan merupakan seorang pensyarah kanan Fakulti Seni Kreatif Universiti Malaya (UM). Penyelidikan beliau mengenai muzik dan budaya popular mendalami isu silang budaya, kosmopolitanisme, keintiman, affect dan gender yang bertumpuan kepada alam Melayu dan Asia Tenggara. Beliau adalah pengarang Cosmopolitan Intimacies, sebuah buku mengenai muzik filem Melayu era Kemerdekaan (NUS Press, 2018); editor undangan bahagian khas untuk Journal of Intercultural Studies (2019); menerbitkan kajian tentang muzik popular Malaysia dan kesepaduan sosial dalam Kajian Malaysia (2019); dan merupakan penyunting bersama buku Made in Nusantara: Studies in popular music (Routledge, 2021). Sejak 2022, beliau memegang jawatan Pengerusi cawangan Asia Tenggara bagi International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-SEA). Sebagai artis rakaman beliau menyanyi dan bermain saksofon untuk AYOP, Nadir dan Adil Johan Quintet (AJQ).