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'Jennifer Lindsay, BA (Victoria University, Wellington), MA (Cornell, USA), PhD (University of Sydney) has worked as a diplomat, arts administrator and foundation program officer as well as an academic. She has spent much of her life in Indonesia, and now lives there half the year. She has taught in the Department of Performance Studies, University of Sydney and the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. Prior to taking up her Visiting Fellowship at ANU, she was Senior Visiting Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. In 2008 and 2009 she was Research Fellow at IIAS and KITLV (Leiden).'

Lindsay's 'scholarly specialization is Indonesia with a wider interest in Southeast Asia. She writes on cultural policy and performance in Southeast Asia; language, media, performance and cultural history in Indonesia; translation, and interrelationships between all of these. She translates from Indonesian into English, and has published three collections of her weekly translations (for Tempo magazine) of Goenawan Mohamad's essays. Her current research focus is Indonesian cultural history from 1950-1965.'

Lindsay's essay 'Goenawan Mohamad: Man on the Margins', the outcome of her ABR Patrons' Fellowship, was published in Australian Book Review 345 (October 2012): 29-41.

Source of quotation: ANU website, College of Asia and the Pacific, http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/ (Sighted: 10/10/2012)