Academic Works and Essays
ESSAYS
“At a Crossroads: Intan Paramaditha on Michelle de Kretser,” Sydney Review of Books, July 25, 2022.
“Daisy & Woolf by Michelle Cahill,” Artshub, July 19, 2022.
“The Absurdist Meets Jane Austen in Bloomington,” The Nation, April 12, 2022.
This essay originally appeared as the foreword to Budi Darma’s People from Bloomington (Penguin Classics), translated by Tiffany Tsao.
“Lives in a Space of Necropolitics: Saha Mansion by Cho Nam-ju," Korean Literature Now, July 1, 2021.
“Toeti Heraty untuk Setiap Perempuan,” Kompas, 15 Juni, 2021.
“Twisted Stories: Review of Kitchen Curse by Eka Kurniawan,” Singapore Unbound, March 9, 2020.
“On the Complicated Questions around Writing about Travel,” Literary Hub, March 2, 2020.
This essay was selected to be featured in The Best American Travel Writing 2021.
“Five Indonesian Authors You Should Read: Or Intan Paramaditha on the Inescapable Politics of Lists.” Literary Hub, March 8, 2019.
“Mother, Monster.” Oh Comely, Issue 46, 2019.
“Bongkar: Siasat Feminis dalam Seni dan Budaya di Indonesia,” Magdalene, February 27, 2019.
“A Feminist Trajectory of Literary Influences.” Inside Indonesia, April 24, 2016.
“The LGBT Debate and the Fear of Gerakan.” The Jakarta Post, February 27, 2016.
“The Look of Silence and Indonesia’s Dark Mirror.” The Conversation, November 20, 2014.
“Indonesia’s Election and Emergency Activism,” The Jakarta Post, August 14, 2014.
“Questions on Witnessing Violence,” The Jakarta Post, April 4, 2011.
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
“Radicalising ‘Learning from Other Resisters’ in Decolonial Feminism,” Feminist Review Vol 131, Issue 1, 2022.
“Narratives of Discovery: Joshua Oppenheimer’s Films on Indonesia’s 1965 Mass Killings and the Human Rights Discourse.” Social Identities, 25:4, 2019, pp. 512-522.
“Q! Film Festival as Cultural Activism: Strategic Cinephilia and the Expansion of a Queer Counterpublic.” Visual Anthropology, Vol. 31, Issue 1-2, 2018, pp. 74-92.
“Film Studies in Indonesia: An Experiment of a New Generation.” Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 2017: 173, 2-3, p. 357-375.
“Tracing Frictions in The Act of Killing.” Film Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 2, Winter 2013, 42-47.
“City and Desire in Indonesian Cinema.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, vol. 12, Issue 4, 2011, 500-512.
“Passing and Conversion Narratives: Ayat-ayat Cinta and Muslim Performativity in Contemporary Indonesia.” Asian Cinema, Fall/Winter 2010, 69-91.
SELECTED TALKS
“A New Direction of Feminism in Indonesia.” Harvard University Asia Center, virtual lecture, April 20, 2022.
“Resistance: Literature as Activism.” Free Word Centre (English PEN), London, March 12, 2019.
“Gender(s) and Tradition.” La Bellone Maison du Spectacle, Europalia Arts Festival, Brussels, November 20-21, 2017.
“Not the Guardian of Your Faith: Islamic Conservativism and the Secular Cultural Producers in Indonesia.” Workshop on the Bureaucratization of Islam in Southeast Asia: Anthropological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives at Max Planck Institute, Halle, September 7-8, 2017.
“Women’s Resistance Through Arts and the Media in Indonesia.” Perdu, Amsterdam, February 9, 2017.
“Post-Suharto Islamic Resurgence and the Secular Responses of Queer and Feminist Cultural Producers.” Transnational Genders on Screen Symposium, organized by the Critical Asian Studies Collaborative, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, October 17-18, 2014.
“Obsession for the Visible: The Politics of Vilified Bodies and Religious Morality in Indonesia.” Centre Asie du Sud-Est, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris, May 23, 2014.
Others
ACADEMIC AWARDS/ GRANTS/ FELLOWSHIP
Visiting Fellow, KITLV (Koninklijk Instituut vor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde/ Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies), Jan-Feb 2017.
New York University Jay Leyda Award for Academic Excellence, 2014.
ACLS/ Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2013-2014.
Social Science Research Council-International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2011-2012.
American Association for University Women International Fellowship, 2007-2008.
Fulbright Scholarship for the M.A program, 2005-2007.
Indonesian Cultural Foundation Scholarship, New York, 2006.
TEACHING
Selected courses
2016-present Senior Lecturer in Media and Film Studies. Macquarie University.
Issues in Contemporary Global Media (Postgraduate)
Screens, Images, Ideas (Undergraduate)
Visual Media and Communications (Undergraduate)
Spring/ Fall 2015 Guest Faculty. Sarah Lawrence College.
Travel and Gender in Cinema.
Independent Cinema and Film Activism in Asia.
Cinemas in Southeast Asia.
Fall 2014/ Spring 2015
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Media Culture Department, City University of New York College of Staten Island.
Film Theory. Media Literacy.
Courses taught at the University of Indonesia (before 2014)
Kritik Sastra Feminis
Pengantar Kesusastraan
Penulisan Kreatif