Dr Tseen Khoo
Tel: +61 3 990 52490Fax: +61 3 990 52410
Email: Tseen.Khoo@monash.edu
Room W11.22 11th Floor
Building 11 (Menzies), Clayton Campus
Biography
Dr Tseen Khoo is a Monash University Research Fellow (2004-2010), based in Sociology. Previous to this, she was a University of Queensland Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2001-2004) in the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, Australia. She has published on Asian-Australian cultural production and politics, multicultural/race issues in Australia, and Asian diaporic studies. 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 the founding convenor of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN) and editor of the Routledge publication, Journal of Intercultural Studies. She is also a committee member for the International Australian Studies Association (InASA).
Research
Tseen’s current research includes two major projects:
- Monash Fellowship: “Siting Differences: The Politics of Representing Asian Australian Public Narratives”, and
- ARC Discovery: “Being Asian in Australia and the United States” (2008-2010; DP DP0880038; Chief Investigators: Jacqueline Lo [ANU], Tseen Khoo [Monash] and Dean Chan [Edith Cowan U]).
Tseen’s supervision interests include immigration, multicultural and racialisation studies in Australia (particularly Asian Australian topics), comparative cultural studies between Australia and Canada, and diasporic Asian cultural studies.
Recent Publications
Books
- Tseen Khoo, ed. Locating Asian Australian Cultures. London and New York: Routledge, 2008.
- Tseen Khoo and Kam Louie, eds. Culture, Identity, Commodity: Diasporic Chinese Literatures in English. Hong Kong and Montreal: Hong Kong and McGill-Queens University Presses, 2005.
- Tseen Khoo. Banana Bending: Asian-Australian and Asian-Canadian Literatures. Hong Kong and Montreal: Hong Kong and McGill-Queens University Presses, 2003.
- Helen Gilbert, Tseen Khoo and Jacqueline Lo, eds. Diaspora: Negotiating Asian-Australia. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2000.
Selected Special Issue Journals
- Keir Reeves and Tseen Khoo, eds. Australian Historical Studies - ‘Dragon Tails: Re-Interpreting Chinese-Australian History.’ ERA journal ranking: A; proposal accepted February 2010.
- Jacqueline Lo, Dean Chan and Tseen Khoo, eds. Amerasia 36.2 (2010) – ‘Asian Australia and Asian America: Reconceptualizing Transnational Geographies.’ ERA journal ranking: A.
- Tseen Khoo and Jacqueline Lo, eds. Journal of Australian Studies 32.4 (2008) - ‘Asia@Home: New Trajectories in Asian Australian Studies.’ ERA journal ranking: B.
- Tseen Khoo, ed. Asian Studies Review 27.2 (2000) – ‘Diaspora.’ ERA journal ranking: A.
Selected Refereed Articles
- Tseen Khoo and Rodney Noonan. ‘Dragons, Dim Sims and Popular Girls: Wartime Fundraising by Chinese Australian Communities.’ Australian Historical Studies (under revision). (ERA journal ranking: A)
- Tseen Khoo and Rodney Noonan. ‘Going for Gold: Creating a Chinese Heritage Festival in Nundle, New South Wales.’ Continuum (under revision). (ERA journal ranking: A)
- Tseen Khoo and Jacqueline Lo. ‘Asia@Home: New Trajectories in Asian Australian Studies.’ Journal of Australian Studies 32.4 (2008): 425-432. (ERA journal ranking: B)
- RoseAnne Misajon and Tseen Khoo. ‘Pinoy TV: Imagining the Filippino-Australian Community.’ Journal of Australian Studies 32.4 (2008): 455-466. (ERA journal ranking: B)
- Tseen Khoo. “The Contagion Within” borderlands 3.3 (2005). (ERA journal ranking: B)
- Tseen Khoo. “Who are we talking about? Asian-Australian Women Writers: An Overview,”Hecate 22.2 (1996): 11-30. (ERA journal ranking: C)
Selected Book Chapters
- Tseen Khoo. ‘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, 2009 (final version submitted July 2008; to be published Feb 2010). (By Invitation)
- Tseen Khoo. ‘Common Ground? Deploying Asian North American Studies in Australia.’ Virtually American? Denationalizing North American Studies. Ed. Mita Banerjee. Heidelberg: Carl Winter UP, 2009. 123-34. (By Invitation)
- Tseen Khoo. ‘Affirming Cosmopolitanism? Chineseness and the Chinese Museum of Queensland.’ China Abroad: Travels, Spaces, Subjects. Ed. Elaine Ho and Julia Kuehn. Hong Kong: Hong Kong UP, 2009. 209-24, 257-58. (By Invitation)
- Tseen Khoo. ‘Critical Introduction: Testing Diasporic Literary Boundaries.’ Ed. Khoo and K. Louie. Culture, Identity, Commodity: Diasporic Chinese Literatures in English. Hong Kong and Montreal: Hong Kong and McGill-Queens UPs, 2005. 1-15.
- Tseen Khoo. “‘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 : University of Western Australia Press, 2005. 121-131.
- Tseen Khoo. “Angry Yellow Men: Asian-Australian and Asian-Canadian Masculinities.”Chinese and Japanese Masculinities. Ed. Kam Louie and Morris Low. London : Routledge, 2003.
- Tseen Khoo. “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 University of Western Australia Press, 2000. 55-62.
Refereed Conference Papers
- Tseen Khoo. “ Hobnobbing Terrestrials and Celestials: Public Representations and Community Negotiations for Chinese Australians “ Peer-reviewed proceedings of the 15th ASAA conference, Canberra , Australia 2004.
Other Selected Articles
- Tseen Khoo, Jen Tsen Kwok and Chek Ling. “Chinese Voices.”Meanjin 63.2 (2004).
- Tseen Khoo. “Penal Posturing: Australia ‘s Patriotic Muscularity and the Myth of a ‘Fair Go’.” Overland 164 (2001): 36-39.
- Tseen Khoo. “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.