Tseen Khoo

Convenor

Tseen Khoo is a Monash University Research Fellow (2004-2009), based in Sociology, School of Political and Social Inquiry. She has published on Asian Australian cultural production and politics, multicultural/race issues in Australia, and Asian diasporic studies. Tseen's monograph Banana Bending: Asian Australian and Asian Canadian Literatures was published by McGill-Queens and Hong Kong University Presses in 2003, and she has also co-edited Culture, Identity, Commodity: Diasporic Chinese Literatures in English (2005; with Kam Louie) and Diaspora: Negotiating Asian Australia (2000; with Helen Gilbert and Jacqueline Lo). She has also edited Locating Asian Australian Cultures (Routledge 2008).

Tseen's current fellowship project is titled "Siting Differences: The Politics of Representing Asian Australian Public Narratives," and she also researches minority representations in multicultural societies, diasporic Asian cultures, and the politics of ethnic festivals. She is currently a Chief Investigator on an ARC Discovery project ("Being Asian in Australia and the United States") with Dean Chan and Jacqueline Lo. Tseen is also an editorial advisor for Peril, an Asian Australian arts and culture magazine.

Jacqueline Lo

Chair

Jacqueline Lo is Head of the School of Humanities at the Australian National University. Her research and teaching is strongly interdisciplinary, drawing from postcolonial studies, performance studies, cultural studies and literary analysis. Recent publications include Performance and Cosmopolitics: Cross-cultural Transactions in Australasia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, co-written with Helen Gilbert), Staging Nation: English Language Theatre in Malaysia and Singapore (HKUP, 2004) and a guest-edited special issue on mixed-race for Journal of Intercultural Studies (28.1-2, 2007). Jacquie has published extensively in leading journals and has coedited a number of books including Diaspora: Negotiating Asian-Australia (2001), and Resistance and Reconciliation: Writing in the Commonwealth (2003). She is completing an ARC project focused on Asian Australian cultural production, and Jacquie is also currently a Chief Investigator on an ARC Discovery project ("Being Asian in Australia and the United States") with Dean Chan and Tseen Khoo.

Dean Chan

Dean Chan teaches in the honours and postgraduate programmes at the School of Communications and Arts, Edith Cowan University, in Perth, Western Australia. His research and publication interests mainly focus on Asian Australian cultural production and East Asian digital games. At present, he is working on a number of projects focusing on Asian Australian and Asian American visual arts, as well as completing a book manuscript titled “Play Asia: Politics, Practices, and Play in Asian Digital Game Cultures.” Dean has been invited to speak at several national conferences and arts symposia including the 2007 Arc Biennial Symposium; and he is regularly commissioned to write for art journals, monographs, and exhibition catalogues. He has previously served on the boards of Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Artists Regional Exchange (ARX), and Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. Dean is currently a Chief Investigator on an ARC Discovery project ("Being Asian in Australia and the United States") with Tseen Khoo and Jacqueline Lo.

Olivia Khoo

Olivia Khoo is a research fellow at Curtin University, Western Australia. She has previously taught Film and Media at the University of New South Wales and Cultural Studies at Melbourne University and the University of Technology, Sydney. Her book, The Chinese Exotic: Modern Diasporic Femininity was published by Hong Kong University Press in 2007, and she is currently co-editing a volume with Sean Metzger entitled Futures of Chinese Cinema: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures. She is also collaborating on an ARC Discovery project with Audrey Yue and Belinda Smaill entitled ‘The History of Asian-Australian Cinema: Diaspora, Policy and Ethics’. Olivia has been a Visiting Scholar at the Asia Research Institute in Singapore, a Resident at the Taipei Artists Village in Taiwan, and has worked on a number of film and arts festivals across Australia including the Sydney Film Festival and the Melbourne Queer Film Festival.