Dr Tseen Khoo
Tseen Khoo is a Monash University Research Fellow (2004-2010), based in the School of Political and Social Inquiry. She has published widely on Asian Australian cultural production and politics, multicultural/race issues in Australia, and Asian diasporic studies. Tseen’s book Banana Bending: Asian Australian and Asian Canadian Literatures was published by McGill-Queens and Hong Kong University Presses in 2003, and she has 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).
Tseen’s current fellowship project is titled “Siting Differences: The Politics of Representing Asian Australian Public Narratives.” Her research interests include diasporic Asian representations in multicultural societies, the politics of ethnic public displays, and diasporic Asian activism.
In late 2008, Tseen and Jacqueline Lo co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Australian Studies, “Asia@Home: New Trajectories in Asian Australian Studies.”