Performance and postcolonial theories; Asia in the West; Asian Australian cultural politics; diaspora & migration; cosmopolitanism; cross-cultural and intercultural engagement; memory and memorialisation

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.

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.