Professor Jacqueline Lo
Areas of expertise
- Cultural Theory 200204
- Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross Cultural Studies 200209
- Postcolonial Studies 200211
- Drama, Theatre And Performance Studies 190404
- Arts And Cultural Policy 160502
- Culture, Gender, Sexuality 200205
- Visual Arts And Crafts 1905
Research interests
Performance and postcolonial theories; Asia in the West; Asian Australian cultural politics; diaspora & migration; cosmopolitanism; cross-cultural and intercultural engagement; memory and memorialisation
Biography
Professor Jacqueline Lo is Director of the Australian National University’s Centre for European Studies and Adjunct Research Fellow of the Centre for Interweaving Performance Cultures at the Free University of Berlin. Prior to her appoinment to the CES, she was Head of the School of Cultural Inquiry at the ANU and taught in the literature program. Her research focuses on issues of race, colonialism, diaspora and the interaction of cultures and communities across ethnic, national and regional borders. Publications include Staging Nation (HKUP 2002), Performance and Cosmopolitics (Palgrave Macmillan 2007, with Helen Gilbert). Her latest publications include editing a special issue of Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture focusing on transnational memories in Germany and Australia (2013) and a special issue of the Asia Europe Journal (2014).
Jacqueline has been Visiting Fellow at UCLA, NYU and Konstanz University, and DAAD Guest Proffesor at the University of Cologne. She is the Founding Chair of the Asian Australian Studies research Network. She was awarded the Chevalier Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 2014.
Researcher's projects
Jacqueline is presently completing a book on Asian Australian cultural politics (funded by the ARC), and is involved in 2 other projects related to the performance of cultural diversity in Berlin (funded by the Free University of Berlin) and transnational visual culture funded by NYU.
Publications
- J. Lo, "Moving Images, Stilling Time: The art of Fiona Tan," Third Text, 28:1 (2014): 56-66
- Lo, J 2013, ''Why should we care?': Some thoughts on cosmopolitan hauntings', Memory Studies, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 345-358.
- Fischer, N, Lo, J & Mitchell, K 2013, 'Introduction: 'Entangled Pasts'', Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 3-11.
- Fischer, N, Lo, J & Mitchell, K, eds, 2013, Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture Volume 4 Number 1 Entangled Pasts: Transnational Memories in Germany and Australia.
- Jacqueline Lo, "Diaspora, Art and Empathy," John Young: The Bridge and the Fruit Tree, Drill Hall Gallery, The Australian National University 2013: 19-43.
- Lo, J & M. Kanamori, 2013 "Returning memory to earth: Towards Asian-Aboriginal reconciliation" Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture 4.1.
- Lo, J, Chan, D & Khoo, T 2010, 'Introduction - Asian Australia and Asian America: Making Transnational Connections', Amerasia Journal, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. xii-xxvii.
- Lo, J & Gilbert, H 2010, 'Diasporas and Performance', in Kim Knott and Sean McLoughlin (ed.), Diasporas: Concepts, intersections, indentities, Zed Books Ltd, UK, pp. 151-156.
- Lo, J 2010, 'Burning Daylight: Staging Asian-Indigenous History in Northern Australia', Amerasia Journal, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 51-61.
- Lo, J, Chan, D & Khoo, T, eds, 2010, Asian Australia & Asian America: Making Transnational Connections.
- Khoo, T & Lo, J 2008, 'Asia@Home: new directions in Asian Australian Studies', Journal of Australian Studies, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 425-432.
- Lo, J 2008, 'William Yang: Ghostly Inventories', in Nancy Sever and Caroline Turner (ed.), Recovering Lives - Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, pp. 25-29.
- Yang, W & Lo, J 2008, 'Image and Performance', About Performance, vol. 8, pp. 125-139.
- Lo, J & Khoo, T, eds, 2008, Journal of Australian Studies, 32 No 4 .
- Ganguly, D, Lo, J & Edwards, P, eds, 2007, Journal of Intercultural Studies.
- Edwards, P, Ganguly, D & Lo, J 2007, 'Pigments of the Imagination: Theorising, Performing and Historicising Mixed Race', Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 1-13.
- Gilbert, H & Lo, J 2007, Performance and Cosmopolitics: Cross-Cultural Transactions in Australasia, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke, New York.
- Lo, J 2006, 'Disciplining Asian Australian Studies: Projections and Introjections', Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2, pp. 11-27.
- Lo, J 2006, 'Queer Magic: Performing Mixed-race on the Australian Stage', Contemporary Theatre Review, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 171-188.
- Lo, J 2005, 'Tropes of Ambivalence in Bran Nue Dae', Altitude, vol. 5, no. online, p. 1.
- Lo, J 2004, Staging Nation: English Language Theatre in Malaysia and Singapore, Hong Kong University Press, Aberdeen, Hong Kong.
- Lo, J 2003, '"Now the language is spoke like I can speak it": Malaysian English on Stage', in Rudiger Ahrens, David Parker, Klaus Stierstorfer, Kwok-Kan Tam (ed.), Anglophone Cultures in Southeast Asia: Appropriations, Continuities, Contexts, Universitatsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 105-113.
- Lo, J 2003, 'Sarung Slippages and Hybrid Manoeuvres', Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing, vol. XXV, no. 2, pp. 172-177.
- Bennett, B, Cowan, S, Lo, J et al, eds, 2003, Resistance and Reconciliation Writing in the Commonwealth, Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Canberra, Australia.
- Lo, J 2002, 'Miscegenation's Dusky Human Consequences', Postcolonial Studies, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 297-307.
- Lo, J & Gilbert, H 2002, 'Toward a Topography of Cross-Cultural Theatre Praxis', The Drama Review (TDR), vol. Fall 2002, no. T175, pp. 31-53.
- Lo, J 2001, 'Arrested Development: Early Malaysian Theatre in English', in Mohammad A. Quayum and Peter C. Wicks (ed.), Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Reader, Longman, Petaling Jaya, pp. 94-101.
- Lo, J 2001, 'Playing the Yellow Lady: Performing Gender and Race', in Marc Maufort and Franca Bellarsi (ed.), Siting the other: Re-visions of marginality in Australian and English-Canadian drama, Peter Lang Publishing Group, Brussels, pp. 69-84.
- Gilbert, H & Lo, J 2001, 'Toil and traffic: Australian appropriations of the Suzuki Method', Australasian Drama Studies, vol. 39, pp. 76-91.
- Lo, J 2000, 'Prison-house, Closet and Camp: Lesbian Mimesis in Eleanor Wong's Plays', in Singh, Kirpal (ed.), Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature Volume 3: Drama, Ethos Books, Singapore, pp. 99-116.
- Lo, J 2000, 'Beyond Happy Hybridity: Performing Asian-Australian Identities', in Ien Ang, Sharon Chalmers, Lisa Law, Mandy Thomas (ed.), Alter/Asians: Asian-Australian identities in art, media and popular culture, Pluto Press, Annandale, NSW, Australia, pp. 152-168.
- Lo, J 2000, 'Competing Subjectivities in The Coffin Is Too Big for the Hole', Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 19-30.
- Lo, J, Khoo, T & Gilbert, H 2000, 'New Formations in Asian-Australian Cultural Politics', Journal of Australian Studies, Australian Cultural History; Special Joint Issue: Diaspora: Negotiating Asian-Australia, vol. JAS no. 65, ACH no. 19, pp. 1-12.
- Lo, J, ed., 2000, Writing Home Chinese Australian Perspectives, Australian National University, Canberra Australia.
- Gilbert, H, Khoo, T & Lo, J, eds, 2000, Diaspora: Negotiating Asian-Australia. Special Issue of Journal of Australian Studies, JAS no.65, ACH no. 19.
- Lo, J 1999, 'Return of the Native in K.S. Maniams The Cord', in Gilbert, H. (ed.), Post Colonial Stages: Critical and Creative Views on Drama, Theatre and Performance, Dangaroo Press, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, pp. 190-200.
- Lo, J, Beard, D, Cunneen, R et al, eds, 1999, Impossible Selves Cultural Readings of Identity, Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia.
