Email:
S.Perera@latrobe.edu.au
Teaching and Research
Interests
cultural and critical theory, esp. race, ethnicity and gender
Australian multiculturalism Australian-Asian connections
Aboriginal writing colonial discourse, decolonisation and
anticolonial theory third world and first world feminisms cultural
studies North American and Caribbean literatures nineteenth and
twentieth century British fiction lifewriting/ testimonio/
autobiography
Keynote and Plenary
Addresses
- "Spectatorshop, Diaspora, Identity" Asian-Australian
Identities, ANU September 1999
- "Whiteness and its Discontents," Alternative Dialogues,
UWS July 1999
- "Futures Imperfect: Time, space and Austral-Asian
Identities", Alter-Asians Conference, February 1999
- "Are we being postcolonial Yet?" Keynote address, Writing
Postcolonial Literary History Conference, ASPCLS
Melbourne, July 1995
- "The Poetics and Politics of Ravishment," Freedom and
Modernity: Early Modern Studies in the Pacific, Victoria
University, Wellington, New Zealand, August 1994
- "Recalcitrant Subalterns (and Other Multicultural
Monsters)" Austral Constellations, University of
Hong Kong, June 1994
Major Publications
Books:
- Reaches of Empire (Columbia UP, 1991) Ed. Asian and
Pacific Inscriptions (Meridian 1995)
Some Recent Essays:
1999 forthcoming
- "Whiteness and its Discontents" Journal of Intercultural
Studies
- "Unmaking the Present: Sri Lankan Histories and a Politics
of Coexistence" Race & Class
- "Futures Imperfect" in I. Ang et al ed.
Alter/Asians
1998
- "The Level Playing Field: Globalisation, Hansonism, Racism"
Race & Class 40.2 (1998): 199-208.
- "A School for Racism: Pedagogy in the Face of Ethnicity"
(with Joseph Pugliese) Discourse, 19. 2
(1998).
- "'Native Title is Inside us' Jabiluka and the Politics of
Intercultural Negotiation: interview with Jacqui Katona" (with
Joseph Pugliese) Australian Feminist Law Journal 10
(March 1998): 1-31.
- "Wogface, Anglo-Drag, Contested Aboriginalities: Making and
Unmaking Identities in Australia" (with Joseph Pugliese)
Social Identities 4. 1 (1988): 39-72.
- "Detoxifying Australia?" (with Joseph Pugliese)
Migration Action 20.2 (1988): 4-18.
1997
- "'Racial Suicide': The Relicensing of Racism in Australia"
(with Joseph Pugliese) Race & Class 39. 2 (1997)
1-20.
- "Representation Wars" reprinted in Charlotte Brunsdon,
Julie D'Acci and Lynne Spigel ed. Feminist Television
Criticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, 337-
350).
1996
- "Claiming Truganini: National Narratives in the Year of
Indigenous Peoples" Cultural Studies 10.3(1996):
393-412.
Journals published in
include:
Arena Australian Feminist Law Journal Australian Women's Review
of Books Cultural Studies Communal/Plural Discourse Hecate Journal
of Postcolonial Studies Law/Text/Culture Meanjin Meridian Race
& Class Social Identities Refractory Girl Victorian
Studies
Editorial Board
memberships:
Journal of Intercultural Studies Law/Text/Culture UTS Review X
Text
Conferences organised:
Identities / Ethnicities / Nationalities (1993) Speaking
Positions (1993) Eraced Bodies (1994) Urban Koori Identities
(1996) Made in Australia: Black Australian Life Stories
(1998)