Tseen Khoo

Research Network Co-Convenor; Cluster Convenor - Cultural Heritage + Community

Tseen Khoo works as a Senior Advisor (Research 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 was 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) and on the editorial board of the Journal of Intercultural Studies. She can be found on Twitter @tseenkhoo.