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Professor-Designate Harry Aveling

Harry Aveling

Professor-Designate
Adjunct Professor, Ohio University
Room: EDUC1, 227
Tel: +61 3 9479 1213
Fax: +61 3 9479 1880
Email: h.aveling@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications: PhD, Malay Literature, National University of Singapore; DCA, Creative Writing, University of Technology, Sydney; M Ed, Multi-cultural Studies, University of New England; STM, Spirituality, Wollaston Anglican Theological College; MAppLing, Translation Studies, Newcastle.

Harry Aveling will retire from La Trobe University at the end of 2008 and assume the appointment of Adjunct Professor in the School of Social Sciences with the title Professor.

Harry Aveling specialises in Indonesian and Malay literature, and Translation Studies. Besides publishing widely in translation theory, he has translated extensively from Indonesian, Malay, French (Francophone writing from Vietnam), and co-translated from Hindi. In 1991 he was awarded the Anugerah Pengembangan Sastera by the Federation of Malay Writers Associations (GAPENA) for his contribution to the international recognition of Malay literature; he was short-listed for the NSW Premier's Literary Award in Translation 2003 and 2007. He has served as Dean of the School of Humanities, Murdoch University, Western Australia. He has also been the Treasurer of the Asian Studies Association of Australia and the Cultural Studies Association of Australia, and most recently President of AALITRA, the Australian Association for Literary Translation.

Harry Aveling has held the rank of Adjunct Professor at Ohio University since 2002 and continues to teach on a regular basis in the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. He is an Honorary Research Associate in Translation Studies at Monash University, and in 2006 and 2007 served as Visiting Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Indonesia. He is also a Member of the Doctoral Studies Committee for the Faculty of English Linguistics and Literature, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and is currently teaching there in the latter part of 2008.

Publications

List of recent publications

Teaching

  • Indonesian Beginners INM 11-1 BEA
  • Indonesian Literature Components of INM 21-1 ADA, 31-1 ADA, 31-1 BEA
  • Application of Literary Theory in EFL Contexts

Graduate Supervision

Current areas of supervision

Research Grants

List of recent research grants

Research Projects

List of research projects

Professional Involvements

List of professional involvements

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