Dr Jacqueline Lo
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.
Most recently, Jacquie and Tseen Khoo co-edited a special issue of Journal of Australian Studies, “Asia@Home: New Trajectories in Asian Australian Studies.”