New Director for the ANU Centre for European Studies

Associate Professor Jacqueline Lo has been appointed the new Director of the ANU Centre for European Studies (ANUCES) to lead the university’s commitment to create synergies, interdisciplinary dialogues and generate collaborative research projects focusing on Europe.

The ANU Centre for European Studies is an initiative involving four ANU Colleges (Arts and Social Sciences, Law, Business and Economics and Asia and the Pacific).  The Centre focuses on the talents of hundreds of researchers, teachers and students working on Europe on a single site.  The Centre is a hub for Europe at ANU and its community of government and academic stakeholders.

Associate Professor Lo was previously the Head for the School of Cultural Inquiry and is regarded as a leading academic in interdisciplinary fields of postcolonial studies, performance studies, cultural studies and literary analysis.  She has published widely with recent publications including Performance and Cosmopolitics: Cross-cultural Transactions in Australasia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, republished 2009, co-written with Helen Gilbert), Staging Nation: English Language Theatre in Malaysia and Singapore (HKUP, 2004) and a number of edited special journal issues including a forthcoming issue of Amerasia focusing on transnational Asian American and Australian cultures.  She is the Founding Chair of the international Asian Australian Studies Research network and is the Editor of the Diasporic Asia section of Asian Studies Review.  She is also Adjunct Research Fellow, International Research Center for Interweaving Performance Cultures, Freie University Berlin.

“The ANU is delighted to appoint Dr Jacquie Lo to the position of ANUCES Director.  Jacquie is an outstanding academic in the field of interdisciplinary studies and is a proven leader of an academic School.  One behalf of my colleagues in the College of Arts & Social Sciences, I congratulate Jacqui on her appointment and look forward to her continuing the research and teaching excellence of the Centre.” says Professor Toni Makkai, Dean and Director of the ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences.

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Associate Professor Jacqueline Lo    
ANU Centre for European Studies
School of Cultural Inquiry                                                  
Research School of Humanities and the Arts