Tseen Khoo - Academic CV

BIOG • RESEARCH • PUBLICATIONS • OTHER ACTIVITIES

Biog:

Dr Tseen Khoo is a Monash University Research Fellow (2004-2010), based in Sociology, School of Political and Social Inquiry. Previous to this, she was a UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2001-2004) in the School of Languages & Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, Australia. She has published on Asian Australian cultural communities, heritage and sociocultural politics; issues in Australian cultural diversity; and Asian Canadian literature. Her monograph, Banana Bending: Asian-Australian and Asian-Canadian Literatures, was published in 2003 by McGill-Queens University Press and Hong Kong University Press.

Tseen is co-editor of Diaspora: Negotiating Asian Australia (U of Queensland Press, 2000; with Helen Gilbert [Royal Holloway, UK] and Jacqueline Lo [ANU, Australia]) and Culture, Identity, Commodity: Diasporic Chinese Literatures in English (Hong Kong UP, 2005; with Kam Louie [Hong Kong U]); her edited collection, Locating Asian Australian Cultures, was published by Routledge in 2008.

Tseen Khoo and Jacqueline Lo established the Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN) in 2006. This initial phase of creating and establishing the research network included the major Asian Australian Studies conference, AAI 2 (28-30 June 2007). Tseen manages the AASRN Yahoogroup, aasrn. She is also a committee member of the International Australian Studies Association (InASA) and the Association of Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ).

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Tseen's research projects include:

“Siting Differences: The Politics of Representing Asian Australian Public Narratives” (current Monash University Fellowship [2004-2010]);
"Being Asian in Australia and United States" - managing project section on the politics of ethnic cultural celebrations and festivals (current ARC Discovery - DP0880038 [2008-2010]);
"Cultural Diversity, Volunteering and Social Cohesion in Australia" (2010 ARC Discovery round - result pending);
"Asian Cultural Activism in Australia and New Zealand" (2009 ARC Future Fellowship application round - result pending).

Tseen's supervision interests include immigration, multicultural and racialisation studies in Australia (particularly Asian Australian topics), and comparative diasporic Asian cultural studies.

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Publications:
academic | reviews | seminar/conf papers

SELECTED ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

FORTHCOMING
	BOOK CHAPTER. ‘Chinese Australians and Cultural Citizenship.’ Modern Australian Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide. Ed. David Carter and Wang Guanglin. Qingdao and Edinburgh: China Ocean UP and Edinburgh UP, forthcoming. [INVITED]
	BOOK CHAPTER. ‘Common Ground? Deploying Asian North American Studies in Australia.’ Virtually American? Denationalizing North American Studies. Ed. Mita Banerjee. Winter UP (American Studies Series), forthcoming. [INVITED]
	BOOK CHAPTER. "Engaging Postcolonial Narratives: Story-Making and National Diversions in Brian Castro's Shanghai Dancing." China Fictions/English Language: Literary Readings in Diaspora and After. Ed. Dorothy Wang. Philadelphia: Temple UP, forthcoming. [INVITED]
2010
	EDITED SPECIAL ISSUE JOURNAL. ‘Asian Australia and Asian America: Reconceptualizing Transnational Geographies.’ Special issue of Amerasia. [Co-edited with D. Chan and J. Lo]
2009
	BOOK CHAPTER. "Affirming Cosmopolitanism? Chineseness and the Chinese Museum of Queensland." China Abroad: Travels, Subjects, Spaces. Ed. Elaine Ho and Julia Kuehn. Hong Kong: Hong Kong UP, 2009. [INVITED]
2008
	EDITED SPECIAL ISSUE JOURNAL. ‘Asia@Home: New Trajectories in Asian Australian Studies.’ Special issue of Journal of Australian Studies 32.4 (2008). [Co-edited with Jacqueline Lo]
	REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLE. ‘Pinoy TV: Imagining the Filippino-Australian Community.’ Journal of Australian Studies 32.4 (2008): 455-466. [Co-written with RoseAnne Misajon]
	REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLE. ‘Asia@Home: New Trajectories in Asian Australian Studies.’ Journal of Australian Studies 32.4 (2008): 425-432. [Co-written with Jacqueline Lo]
	EDITED BOOK OF ESSAYS. Locating Asian Australian Cultures. Ed. Tseen Khoo. New York and London: Routledge, 2008. Critical Introduction and Conclusion written by Khoo.
2007
	FOREWORD. Rediscovered Past: Selected Articles on China in North Queensland. Ed. Kevin Wong Hoy. Melbourne, 2007.
2006
	COMMISSIONED REPORT. Bridge of Memories: Exploring Identity, Diversity, Community, Section: "Social and Cultural History of Chinese in Australia (1950s-present)." Commissioned by the Museum of Chinese Australian History Inc (Melbourne). Co-written with D. Crouch. October 2006.
	EDITED SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE. Journal of Intercultural Studies - "Locating Asian Australian Cultures." Critical Introduction and Conclusion written by Khoo.
2005
	BOOK CHAPTER. "'We Are One but We Are Many': Representations of Chinese Australian Heritage." Beyond Good and Evil?: Essays on the Literature and Culture of the Asia Pacific Region. Ed. Dennis Haskell, Megan Mackinlay and Pamina Rich. Perth: U of Western Australia P. 121-131.
	CRITICAL CONTRIBUTION. Extra-Aesthetic: 25 Views of the Monash University Collection. Melbourne: Monash University Museum of Art, 2005. 26-27. [INVITED]
	EDITED BOOK OF ESSAYS. KHOO, TSEEN, and Kam Louie, eds. Culture, Identity, Commodity: Diasporic Chinese Literatures in English. Hong Kong and Montreal: Hong Kong and McGill-Queens UP, 2005.
	BOOK CHAPTER. "Introduction: Culture, Identity, Commodity: Testing Diasporic Literary Boundaries." Culture, Identity, Commodity: Diasporic Chinese Literatures in English. Ed. Tseen Khoo and Kam Louie. Hong Kong and Montreal: Hong Kong and McGill-Queens UP, 2005. 1-15.
	EDITED REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS. The Body Politic: Racialised Political Cultures in Australia (Refereed Proceedings from the UQ Australian Studies Centre conference, Brisbane, 24-26 November 2004). Brisbane and Melbourne: Australian Studies Centre (U of Queensland) and the National Centre for Australian Studies (Monash U), 2005.
2004
	REFEREED ARTICLE. "The Contagion Within." borderlands 3.3 (2004). [INVITED]
	EDITED. Crossings (the E-bulletin of the International Australian Studies Association [InASA]). 9.3 (2004). [with Robert Crawford]
	REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPER. "Hobnobbing Terrestrials and Celestials: Public Representations and Community Negotiations for Chinese Australians." Ed. Robert Cribb. Asia Examined: Proceedings of the 15th Biennial Conference of the ASAA, 2004, Canberra, Australia. Canberra: Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) & Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), ANU, 2004.
	ARTICLE. TSEEN KHOO, Jen Tsen KWOK and Chek LING. "Chinese Voices." Meanjin 63.2 (2004).
	ARTICLE (RESPONSE). "Fortress Australia." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 29.2 (2004). [INVITED]
2003
	BOOK. Banana Bending: Asian-Australian and Asian-Canadian Literatures. Hong Kong and Montreal: Hong Kong UP and McGill-Queens UP, 2003.
	BOOK CHAPTER. "Angry Yellow Men: Asian-Australian and Asian-Canadian Masculinities." Chinese and Japanese Masculinities. Ed. Kam Louie and Morris Low. London: Routledge, 2003.
	EDITED SPECIAL ISSUE JOURNAL. Asian Studies Review. "Diaspora." 27.2 (2003).

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	ARTICLE. "Penal Posturing: Australia's Patriotic Muscularity and the Myth of a 'Fair Go'." Overland 164 (2001): 36-39.
	BOOK CHAPTER. "Re-siting Australian Identity: Configuring the Chinese Citizen in Diana Giese's Astronauts, Lost Souls, and Dragons and William Yang's Sadness." Bastard Moon: Essays on Chinese-Australian Writing. Ed. Wenche Ommundsen. Kingsbury, Vic: Otherland, 2001. 95-109.
	EDITED SPECIAL ISSUE JOURNAL. Newman, Paul, TSEEN KHOO, and Kathryn Goldie, eds. "Sorry" M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 4.1 (2001). http://www.media-culture.org.au/archive.html#sorry (8 August 2001).
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	EDITED BOOK OF ESSAYS. Gilbert, Helen, TSEEN KHOO, and Jacqueline Lo, eds. Diaspora: Negotiating Asian-Australia. Brisbane: U of Queensland P, 2000.
	BOOK CHAPTER. "Introduction: New Formations in Asian-Australian Cultural Politics." [co-author with Lo and Gilbert]. Diaspora: Negotiating Asian-Australia. Ed. Gilbert, Khoo, and Lo. Brisbane: U of Queensland P, 2000. 1-12.
	BOOK CHAPTER. "Selling Sexotica: Oriental Grunge and Suburbia in Lillian Ng's Swallowing Clouds." Diaspora: Negotiating Asian-Australia. Ed. Gilbert, Khoo, and Lo. Brisbane: U of Queensland P, 2000. 164-172.
	BOOK CHAPTER. "The Ocker Ethnic: Hung Le and Australian Cultural Identity." Ed. Dennis Haskell and Ron Shapiro. Interactions: Asian and Pacific Literatures. Perth: Centre for the Study of Australian Literature and U of Western Australia P, 2000. 55-62.
	ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY. "Multiculturalism: Arts, Literature, and Popular Culture." Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women. Ed. Cherise Kramarae and Dale Spender. Volume 3. New York and London: Routledge, 2000. 1390-1391.
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	ARTICLE. "(Dis)Infecting Australia: Australian Media and the Diseased Australian 'Astronaut'." Amida 5.4 (1999): 12.
	REFREED ARTICLE. "Fetishising Flesh: Asian-Australian and Asian-Canadian Representation, Porno-Culinary Genres, and the Racially Marked Body." M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 2.3 (1999).
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	ARTICLE. "Someone's Private Zoo: Asian Australian Women's Writing." Current Tensions: Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference (Association for the Study of Australian Literature [ASAL]). Brisbane: Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 1997. 23-29.
	REFEREED ARTICLE. "Who are we talking about? Asian-Australian Women Writers: An Overview," Hecate 22.2 (1996): 11-30. [INVITED]

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Chinese-Australian Journeys: Records on Travel, Migration and Settlement, 1850-1975 by Paul Jones (Canberra: National Archives of Australia, 2005). China Quarterly (2006), 185: 198-199.
Asian American Studies after Critical Mass and A Companion to Asian American Studies by Kent Ono (both books - Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005). Journal of Intercultural Studies 27.1-2 (2006): 247-249.
Haunted Nations: The Colonial Dimensions of Multiculturalism by Sneja Gunew (London and New York: Routledge, 2004). Australian Feminist Studies. 20.48 (2005): 367-368.
"A Passage from India: Anglo-Indians in Victoria" exhibition, Immigration Museum, Melbourne, Vic. History Australia 2.2 (2005).
[with Som Sengmany] "Dialogues across Cultures" conference. Overland 179: 58-59.
Resistance and Reconciliation: Writing in the Commonwealth edited by Bruce Bennett et al (Canberra: ACLALS, 2003). Australian Literary Studies 21.2 (2003): 225-228.
Bold Words: A Century of Asian-American Writing edited by Rajini Srikanth and Esther Iwanaga (New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers UP, 2001). Asian Studies Review 27.2 (2003): 285-286.
Ouyang Yu (Two Hearts, Two Tongues, and Rainbow-Coloured Eyes), Zijie Pan (Vostok/This Could Have Happened to You). Asian Studies Review. "Diaspora." 27.2 (2003): 286-288.
Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia 1850-1939 by David Walker (St Lucia: U of Queensland P Australian Studies, 1999). Asian Studies Review 26.1 (2002): 135-37.
Dewi Anggraeni (Neighbourhood Tales), Candice Chuh and Karen Shimakawa (Orientations). Asian Studies Review 26.3 (2002): 415-416.
The Asianisation of Australia?: Some Facts about the Myths by Laksiri Jayasuriya and Kee Pookong (Melbourne: Melbourne UP, 1999). Asian Studies Review 25.4 (2001): 547-48.
Alter/Asians: Asian-Australian Identities in Art, Media and Popular Culture edited by Ien Ang et al (Pluto Press: Annandale, 2000). Journal of Australian Studies 68 (2001): 203-204.
"Treasure Box of Possibilities": Streetlife China by Michael Dutton (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998). New Formations 40 (2000): 142-144.
Jamming the Machinery: Contemporary Australian Women's Writing by Alison Bartlett (Toowoomba, Qld: ASAL, 1998). AUMLA Journal 93 (2000): 120-122.
"Polemic Publication: Ghassan Hage's White Nation." M/C Reviews 16 October 1999.
Ethnic Literature and Culture in the USA, Canada, and Australia edited by Igor Maver (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1996) and Precarious Present/Promising Future: Ethnicity and Identities in Canadian Literature edited by Danielle Schaub, Janice Kulyk Keefer, and Richard E. Sherwin (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1996). Canadian Literature 157 (1998): 159-162.
About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theatre by Dorinne Kondo (New York and London: Routledge, 1997). Japanese Studies Journal 18.2 (1998): 214.

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‘The Fluffy Dragon Formula: Asian Australian Celebration as Anamorphic Text.’ Paper to be presented at the “Spectres, Screens, Shadows, Mirrors” conference (Association for the Study of Australian Literature). Perth, WA. 3-5 July 2006.
"Common Ground?: Deploying Asian-American Studies in Australia." Paper to be presented at the "Virtually American? Denationalizing North American Studies" conference. U of Siegen, Siegen, GERMANY. 4-5 October, 2005. [INVITED]
"All for Show?" Paper presented for the Melbourne Chinese Studies Group, Sidney Myer Centre, Melbourne. 2 Sept 2005.
"The Valley as Artifact: Considering Brisbane's Chinatown Museum." Paper presented at the "Writing across Cultures: Fiction, History, Memory" conference (ASAL). Adelaide, SA. 4-6 July 2005.
"Making a Contribution: Chinese Australian Commemoration in Fortitude Valley." Paper presented at the 9th Biennial Chinese Studies Association of Australia Conference. Golden Dragon Museum, Bendigo, Vic. 30 June-3 July, 2005.
"Community Representations of Chinese-Australian History: Assuming Authority?" Seminar paper presented for the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific, Deakin U, Melbourne, Vic. 20 October 2004.
"Hobnobbing Terrestrials and Celestials: Public Representations and Community Negotiations for Chinese Australians." Paper presented at the 15th Asian Studies Association of Australia conference, Canberra, ACT. 29 June - 2 July 2004.
"Additive Histories?: Melbourne's Immigration Museum and Canberra's National Museum of Australia." Paper presented at "Colonialism and its Aftermath" conference, U of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas. 23-25 June 2004.
"'We Are One but We Are Many': Representations of Asian-Australian Heritage and Culture." Paper presented at the 10th Biennial Symposium on Culture and Society in the Asia-Pacific Region, U of Western Australia, Perth, WA. 1-4 Dec 2003.
"'Commonplace and Pretentious': Directing Asian-Australian Women's Writing." Paper presented at the Australian Women's Studies Association conference. Women's College, U of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD. 12-16 July 2003.
"Finding Face: Locating Asian-Australian Heritage." Paper presented at the Association for the Study of Australian Literature conference. Australian Catholic U, Brisbane, QLD. 30 Jun-2 Jul 2003.

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"Why Asian Canadian Studies? The View from Down Under." Paper presented at the panel: "Asian-Canadian Studies: Pasts and Futures." Association for Asian American Studies conference. San Francisco, USA. 7-11 May. [INVITED]
"No Fries with that: Postgraduate Retrospective." Paper presented at the "Postgraduate Futures?" panel. "In Progress" conference, Brisbane, QLD. 4-6 October 2002. [INVITED]
"Failed Transplants and Cultural Sacrifice: Hsu-Ming Teo's Love and Vertigo." Paper presented at the "Transforming Cultures/Shifting Boundaries: Asian Diasporas and Identities in Australia and Beyond" conference, Emmanuel College, UQ-St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD. 30 Nov-2 Dec, 2001.
"In Australia, Not of Australia: Representing Asylum Seekers and the Myth of the 'Fair Go'." Paper presented at the 12th Triennial Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies conference, Canberra, ACT. 9-14 July 2001.
"Asia@Home: Asian-Australian Cultural Politics and Practice." Panel presentation with Dean Chan, Olivia Khoo, and Jacqueline Lo. 23rd Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) conference, Trades Hall, Melbourne, Vic. 5-8 July 2001.
"Liberated Sexuality or Just Hard To Swallow?: Lillian Ng's Swallowing Clouds and Going Ethnic in Oz Suburbia." Paper presented at 22nd Association for the Study of Australian Literature conference. U of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas. 6-9 July 2000.
"In the Shadow of Mackenzie Hill: Literary Activism and the Internment Experience." Paper presented at "Negotiating Identities," an Asia-Pacific Canadian Studies conference. U of Wollongong, NSW. 1-4 July 2000.

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"Patent Theft?: Bioprospecting and Neo-Imperialist Science." Paper presented at the Postcolonial Discussion Group. U of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD. 25 August, 1998.
"Recycled Myths: Contemporary Canadian Literature." Paper presented at "As Good As It Gets" Work-In-Progress conference. U of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD. 15-16 August 1998.
"'Spaghetti Noodles and Hot Dog Soup": Merged Identities in When Fox Is a Thousand." Paper presented at the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ) conference. Macquarie U, Sydney, NSW. 9-11 July, 1998.
"Diverting Essentialism: Predation, Othering, and Larissa Lai's Foxes." Paper presented at the Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS) conference. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. 24-28 June, 1998. [INVITED]
"The Ocker Ethnic: Reading Hung Le and Cultural Identity." Paper presented at "Interactions," the 8th Biennial Symposium on Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region. U of Western Australia, Perth, WA. 9-12 Dec, 1997.
"Bright White Suburbs: Configuring the Asian Citizen on Australian and Canadian Literary Landscapes." Paper presented at CACLALS (Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies) forum at the Learneds Societies Conferences in St John's, Newfoundland, CANADA. 1-3 June, 1997.
"'Any Wog People Wanted Me To Be': Contamination or Hybridity in Contemporary Asian-Australian Women's Writing." Paper presented at the "Narrative and Metaphor" conference (SPACLALS). Auckland, NEW ZEALAND. 8-10 July, 1996.
"'Someone's Private Zoo': Asian-Australian Women's Writing." Paper presented at the "Current Tensions" conference (ASAL). Queensland U of Technology, Brisbane, QLD. 7-11 July, 1996.

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Other Activities:
associations | web stuff | convening | examinations | editorial

ASSOCIATION/GROUP MEMBERSHIPS:

AASRN: Asian Australian Studies Research Network (Network Convenor and Website Manager [2006-[present])
ACSANZ: Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (Committee Member and Website Manager [1998-2005, 2008-present], E-list Moderator [2001-2005])
ASAA: Asian Studies Association of Australia
ASAL: Association for the Study of Australian Literature
InASA: International Australian Studies Association (Committee Member [2005-present])

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WEB ROLES:

WEBSITE - Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN)
E-LIST - aasrn (LIST OWNER)

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CONVENED EVENTS:

"Dragon Tails: Re-interpreting Chinese-Australian Heritage," (9-11 Oct 2009), Sovereign Hill, Ballarat. Convened by Monash U and the Sovereign Hill Museums Association.
"AAI 2: The 2nd Asian Australian Identities Conference," (28-30 June 2007), Melbourne. Hosted by AASRN, convened by Australian National U (Jacqueline Lo) and Monash U (Tseen Khoo).
"Locating Asian Australian Cultures" (28 June 2005) - Monash U, Clayton, Vic.
archived site: "The Body Politic: Racialised Political Cultures in Australia" 24-26 NOVEMBER 2004. UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND - ST LUCIA, BRISBANE. Hosted by the UQ Australian Studies Centre.
"Transforming Cultures/Shifting Boundaries: Asian Diasporas and Identities in Australia and Beyond" - 30 November-2 December 2001 (U of Queensland).
"Asian-Australian Identities" - 27-29 September 1999 (Australian National U).
Work-In-Progress Postgraduate conference, "WIP-ping Posts" - 9-10 August 1997 (University of Queensland).

Organised theme panels for:

9th Biennial Chinese Studies Association of Australia conference, Bendigo, Vic (30 June - 3 July 2005)
15th Biennial Asian Studies Association of Australia conference, Canberra, ACT (29 June - 2 July 2004)
11th Biennial Australian History Association conference, Brisbane, QLD (3-7 July 2002)

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THESES EXAMINED FOR:
Masters: Hong Kong U; Griffith U (Queensland).
PhDs: Central Queensland U; Edith Cowan U (Western Australia); U of Technology - Sydney.

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EDITORIAL/REFEREEING ROLES:

Member of editorial team, Journal of Intercultural Studies (2006-present)
Reviews Editor, 'Diasporic Asia' stream, Asian Studies Review (2009-present).
Editorial Advisor, Peril: An Asian Australian Magazine of Arts + Culture (2006-present).
Refereed articles/reviewed for: Asian Studies Review, Australian Feminist Studies, Australian Literary Studies, China Quarterly, Intersections, Hong Kong University Press, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Journal of Australian Studies, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Journal of Japanese Studies, M/C, Signs.

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