The literature of Malaysia and Singapore and is presently engaged in a research project on the images of women in the manuscript tradition and in the modern Malay novel, as well as in literary translation from Malay into English.

music, interculturalism, ethnic identities, nationalism, cultural politics, media, performing arts, cultural policy areas: Malaysia, Singapore.

Life and poetry of Wiji Thukul. Popular and progressive cultural production and social dynamics in contemporary Indonesia. Use of new media in collaborative research and teaching of Indonesian language and culture.

Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia

Indonesian history and society, Indonesian regional politics, Asian security issues, historical biography and the biography genre in general, Australia's relations with Asia.

Literacy, printing, and colonial education in nineteenth-century Muslim Southeast Asia. Ideologies and genres in classical Malay manuscript literature. History of Southeast Asian Muslim calendars.

The literature and popular culture of contemporary Java; patterns and sites of pilgrimmage in Java and Madura; and the Catholic Church in East Timor.

Old Javanese language and literature, Early history of Indonesia.

History of pre-modern Southeast Asia; literature and art history of Java and Bali.

The nation-state in contemporary Southeast Asia; Indonesian politics; Indonesian Islam; Impact of the West on Indonesia; Indonesian history; Indonesia's Writing Traditions; Javanese theatre; Early Javanese history.

Prehistory and early history of Indonesia, especially South Sulawesi; Bugis philology; early history of Australia, especially maritime discovery.