Professor Jacqueline Lo
Areas of expertise
- Cultural Theory 200204
- Cultural Studies 2002
- Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross Cultural Studies 200209
- Postcolonial Studies 200211
- Drama, Theatre And Performance Studies 190404
- Arts And Cultural Policy 160502
- Visual Arts And Crafts 1905
Research interests
Performance and postcolonial theories; European studies; Asia in the West; Asian Australian cultural politics; diaspora & migration; cultural diplomacy;cosmopolitanism; cross-cultural and intercultural engagement; memory and memorialisation
Biography
Professor Jacqueline Lo is Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) of the University of Adelaide. She was previously Chair of Academic Board at the ANU for two terms. She was also Associate Dean (International) for the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences and Executive Director of the Centre for European Studies. She is the Founding Chair of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network and a member of the NYU Global Arts Exchange Program. She was awarded the Chevalier Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 2014.
Researcher's projects
Jacqueline is the lead investigator of three large Jean Monnet research grants focusing on migration and integration (PPCEUMI), European public policy (EUROPOL) and the Centre for Excellence in EU-Australia Economic Relations. For details see http://politicsir.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/ces/research/projects/jean-monnet
Publications
- McNaughton, A & Lo, J 2017, ''Mutual Evaluation': A new policy tool for dealing with 'Behind the Borders' Barriers', in Annmarie Elijah, Donald Kenyon, Karen Hussey and Pierre van der Eng (ed.), Australia, The European Union and the new trade agenda., ANU Press, Australia. pp. 163 - 181.
- Lo, J 2016, 'Diaspora, Art and Empathy', in Aleida Assmann and Ines Detmers (ed.), Empathy and its Limits, Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 202-216pp.
- Lo, J 2014, 'Dancing for the Dead', in Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost and Saskya Iris Jain (ed.), The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, New York, pp. 119-137.
- Lo, J 2014, 'Australia's Other Asia in the Asian Century', in Michelle Antoinette and Caroline Turner (ed.), Contemporary Asian Art and Exhibitions: Connectivities and World-making, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 219-232.
- Lo, J 2014, 'Moving Images, Stilling Time The Art of Fiona Tan', Third Text, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 56-66.
- Lo, J, Tan, D & Shannon, W 2014, 'Asia/Europe/Australia dialogue: building knowledge from each other's experiences', Asia Europe Journal, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 361-363.
- Lo, J 2014, 'Beyond the US-China Dilemma: The Art of Diasporic World-Making', Australasian Journal of American Studies (AJAS), vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 35-48.
- Lo, J 2013, 'Diaspora, Art and Empathy', in Carolyn Barnes and Jacqueline Lo (ed.), The Bridge and the Fruit Tree: John Young - A survey, Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, pp. 19-43.
- Lo, J & Kanamori, M 2013, 'Returning memory to earth: Towards Asian-Aboriginal reconciliation', Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 67-78.
- 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, 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, London and New York, pp. 151-156.
- Lo, J 2010, 'Burning Daylight: Staging Asian-Indigenous History in Northern Australia', Amerasia Journal, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 50-61.
- Lo, J, Chan, D & Khoo, T 2010, 'Asian Australia & Asian America: Making Transnational Connections', Amerasia Journal, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. XIII-XXVII.
- 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.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Water Policy Innovation Hub (Primary Investigator)
- Identifying Opportunities in EU-Australia Trade in Services (Primary Investigator)
- EU-Australia Centre for Excellence on Economic Cooperation (Primary Investigator)
- Europa Policy Labs (Primary Investigator)
- Policy, Politics, Culture: EU Migration and Integration (Primary Investigator)
- ANU Centre for European Studies 2014-2017 (Primary Investigator)
- Discussion Paper on Internationalism (Primary Investigator)
- Memory and Migration: German-Australian Dialogues in the Humanities (Primary Investigator)
- Australia and the European Union: A study of a changing trade and business relationship (Primary Investigator)
- Being Asian in Australia and the United States: Analysing Ethnic Representations in Visual Arts, Popular Culture, Academia and Community Festivals (Primary Investigator)
- Cultural cooperation program between the Spanish Ministry of Culture and The Australian National University (Primary Investigator)
