Jacqueline Lo
Research Network 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.
Tseen Khoo
Research Network Co-Convenor; Cluster Convenor - Cultural Heritage + Community
Tseen Khoo works as a Senior Advisor (Research Grants Development) at RMIT University. Previously, she has been a Monash University Research Fellow (2004-2009) and a University of Queensland Postdoctoral Fellow (2001-2004). Tseen 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 edited Culture, Identity, Commodity: Diasporic Chinese Literatures in English (2005; with Kam Louie), Diaspora: Negotiating Asian Australia (2000; with Helen Gilbert and Jacqueline Lo), and Locating Asian Australian Cultures (Routledge 2008). She is currently a Chief Investigator on an ARC Discovery project (“Being Asian in Australia and the United States”; 2008-2010) with Dean Chan and Jacqueline Lo. Tseen is also an editorial advisor for Peril, an Asian Australian arts and culture magazine.
Tseen can be found on Twitter @tseenkhoo.
Indigo Willing
Research Network Co-Convenor
Indigo Willing, OAM, is involved with various research, teaching, film and writing projects which focus on diaspora, cultural and transnational adoption communities. Her research interests include transnational families and sociological theories of migration. Her PhD thesis in sociology at UQ focused on the experiences of Australian parents who have adopted children from overseas countries in Asia and Africa. Her MA at UTS, and previous work as a Rockefeller Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, explored the construction of identity of adopted Vietnamese. She is also the founder of the Adopted Vietnamese International community network. She received a Medal in the Order of Australia in 2006 in recognition for this initiative. Indigo is currently the co-convenor of the Asian Australian Film Forum (AAFF; with Amadeo Marquez-Perez), and was also the convener of “An Asian-Australian Occasion: Short Film Festival and Panel,” Brisbane 2007.
Indi is also on Twitter: @Indigo_Willing
Dean Chan
Cluster Convenor - Visual Arts + New Media
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
Cluster Convenor - Film, Literature + Performance
Olivia Khoo is a Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Monash University, Victoria. Prior to this position she was a Targeted Research Fellow at Curtin University, Western Australia. She has also taught Film and Media at the University of New South Wales and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne and the University of Technology, Sydney. Olivia has published widely in the fields of Asian and Asian-Australian film and cultural studies. She is the author of The Chinese Exotic: Modern Diasporic Femininity (Hong Kong University Press, 2007) and co-editor (with Sean Metzger) of Futures of Chinese Cinema: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures (Intellect, 2006). With Audrey Yue and Belinda Smaill she is working on an ARC Discovery project 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.