Hsu-ming Teo teaches European history and the history of travel and tourism in the Department of Modern History, Macquarie University. She is the co-editor of Cultural History in Australia (UNSW Press 2003). In 1999, she won The Australian/ Vogel Literary Award for her first novel Love and Vertigo, which was also short-listed for the inaugural Tasmania Pacific Region Literary Prize and the Dobbie Award for women’s fiction. It has been translated into German, Italian, Chinese and Thai. Her second novel, Behind the Moon, was published in 2005 and was shortlisted for one of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. She is currently working on a book about historical representations of Arabs and Muslims in western women’s popular culture.
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