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
Postcolonial studies; multiculturalism, diaspora and migration; memory studies; performance and visual cultures; Asia in the West; Asian Australian studies; cross-cultural engagement; public policy; EU-Australia-Asia relations.
Other selected publications not listed elsewhere:
“The EU-Australia Relationship: Continuity and Change” Australian Outlook (Australian Institute of international Affairs) With Annmarie Elijah, 5 June 2017 http://bit.ly/2VXeLF3
Diaspora, Art and Empathy” John Young: The Bridge and the Fruit Tree, commissioned essay for exhibition catalogue, Drill Hall Gallery ANU (2013): 19-43.
“Passages into the ‘Asian century’” commissioned catalogue essay for Passages exhibition by Brian Castro, Khai Liew and John Young, Tarrawara Museum of Art (2012): 7-12.
Introduction to 1984 Here and Now, by Kee Thuan Chye, Times Edition (2004): 7-15. With Helen Gilbert.
“Where ya from?” Telling Time, ed Virginia Baxter, Playworks Press (1996): 95-97. Reprint 1999.
Critical introduction to Ms Serena Serenata and Beaut, Luv by Merlinda Bobis, Australasian Drama Studies 27 (1995): 88-90.
“Out of the Theatre and into the Everyday: Intervening in Shopping Centres”, Real Time 9 (1995): 4. With Jules Pavlou Kirri.
“What Priscilla Said”, Real Time 4 (1994): 4-5. With Merlinda Bobis and Helen Gilbert.
Commissioned Policy Report
Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Training, Research and Education (DIISRTE) commissioned paper on "EU-Australia Student Mobility: International Best Practice" 2012.
Commissioned Teaching Resources
English Modules (“Literatures from Asia” and “Representations of Asian-Australian relations in contemporary literature”) Department of Education, Science and Training, 2002.
Curriculum Corporation, Voices and Visions from Asia DVD series on China, Indonesia, Japan and India 2000-2003.
Biography
Professor Jacqueline Lo is Honorary Professor at the ANU. An internationally recognised Humanities scholar and pioneer of Asian Australian Studies, her work on multiculturalism, diaspora and public policy has influenced academic and policy sectors in Europe, Asia and the USA. Her research focuses on issues of race, colonialism, diaspora and the interaction of cultures and communities across ethnic, national and regional borders.
Jacqueline was formerly Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) of the University of Adelaide. Prior to this role, she was 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. Other roles during her tenure at the ANU include Interim Director, Research School of Social Sciences, and Head of the School of Cultural Inquiry.
She is the Founding Chair of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network, member of the Westpac Scholars National Selection Panel and permanent member of the NYU Global Arts Exchange Program. She was awarded the Chevalier Ordre des Palmes Académiques/Knight of the Academic Palms in 2014 by the French Ministry of Education.
| Recent publications |
“Interweaving Anew: The Japanese-Samoan Va”, Yuki Kihara: Paradise Camp, ed. Natalie King, Thames & Hudson, 2022, pp. 141-147.
“Can We Talk About Poland? Intergenerational Translations of Home”, in Susannah Radstone and Rita Wilson (eds.), Translating Worlds: Migration, Memory, and Culture, London and New York: Routledge, 2020, pp. 131-147. (with Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams).
“Tangled Histories, Haunted Streets: Asian-Indigenous Relations in Broome”, Updated 2009 essay published in Marrugeku: Telling That Story, eds. Helen Gilbert, Dalisa Pigram and Rachael Swain, Aberystwyth: Performance Research Books, 2021: 90-99.
“Cosmopolitan Indigenous Art: A Contradiction in Terms? Brook Andrew and Vernon Ah Kee at the Biennials”, In the Balance; Indigeneity, Performance, Globalisation, eds Helen Gilbert, JD Philipson and Michelle Raheja. Liverpool University Press (commissioned essay for new edition, forthcoming 2022).
Researcher's projects
Jacqueline is currently writing a book about Asian Australian cultural politics. She is also 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
Past Monographs/Edited Books/Special Journal Issues:
Asia/Europe/Australia Dialogue, special issue of Asia Europe Journal 12.2 (2014). Co-edited with K. Cada, D. Tan and W. Shannon.
Entangled Pasts: Transnational Memories in Germany and Australia, special issue of Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture 4.1 (2013). Co-edited with Nina Fischer and Kate Mitchell.
Asian Australia and Asian America: Making Transnational Connections, special issue of Amerasia (2010). Co-edited with Dean Chan and Tseen Khoo
Asia@Home: New Directions in Asian Australian Studies, special issue of Journal of Australian Studies 32.4 (2008). Co-edited with Tseen Khoo.
Performance and Cosmopolitics: Cross-Cultural Transactions in Australasia. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007. With Helen Gilbert. Winner biennial Rob Jordan Award, Australasian Drama Studies Association. Shortlisted NSW Premier's Literary Prize and Gleebooks Award.
Pigments of the Imagination: Theorising, Performing and Historicising Mixed Race, special issue of Journal of Intercultural Studies 28.1 (2007). Co-edited with Penny Edwards and Debjani Ganguly.
Staging Nation: Post-colonial English Language Theatre in Malaysia and Singapore. Hong Kong University Press, 2004. Shortlisted biennial Rob Jordan Award, Australasian Drama Studies Association.
Resistance and Reconciliation: Writing from Commonwealth Cultures. Canberra: Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 2003. Co-edited with Bruce Bennett, Susan Cowan, Satendra Nandan and Jen Webb.
Diaspora: Negotiating Asian-Australia. Brisbane: University of Queensland, 2000. Co-edited with Helen Gilbert and Tseen Khoo.
Writing Home: Chinese Australian Perspectives. Canberra: Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, Australian National University, 2000.
Impossible Selves: Cultural Readings of Identity. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 1999. Co-edited with D. Beard, R. Cunneen and D. Ganguly.
South East Asian Theatre, Special issue of Australasian Drama Studies 25, 1994.
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)
