Curriculum Vitae
Sylvia Tiwon
Associate Professor
Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
Affiliated Faculty Member:
Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
Dutch Studies, Department of German.
Education:
Ph.D. South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1985
M.A. English, Stanford University, 1978
Sarjana Sastra, English, University of Indonesia, 1974.
Sarjana Muda Hukum (Bachelor, Laws), Christian University of Indonesia, 1968.
Fellowships and grants:
Mellon Project Grant, 2008/09
Freeman grant, 2003/04 for undergraduate course development (Mythologies of Island Southeast Asia)
Fulbright, 1976-78
AAUW, 1976-77
Employment and professional activities:
1974-1978 lecturer, Faculty of Letters, University of Indonesia
1978-1987 lecturer, DSSEAS, UC Berkeley
Associate editor, Journal of Critical Asian Studies
Advisory Board: Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures, Brill.
Member, Board of Education, Indonesian Society for Social Transformation
Member, Editorial Board, Indonesia Alert, 2001-2005
Board Member, Indonesian Human Rights Network, 2001-2005.
Research and field experience:
Indonesia: Aceh, Java, eastern islands and Papua
East Timor
Netherlands
Select Bibliography:
Books:
Breaking the Spell: Colonialism and Literary Renaissance in Indonesia, (Leiden: Semaian), 1999
Militerisme di Indonesia, co-edited. (Jakarta: ISAI). 2000.
Articles and translations:
“Beruang, Bebek dan Imajinasi Bangsa” (A bear, a duck and the national imagination), introduction to Seekor bebek yang mati di pinggir kali (short stories) by Puthut E.A. Jogjakarta: InsistPress. 2009.
Translations of poetry in Surat bunga dari Ubud, by Putu Oka Sukanta. Depok: Koekoesan. 2008.
“Negara adalah Kita: mengenal upaya rakyat menegakkan kedaulatan atas tanah air”, (We are the State: understanding people’s initiatives towards sovereignty in land/water/nation) introduction to Negara adalah Kita: Pengalaman Rakyat Melawan Penindasan (We are theState: Experience in Resistance to Exploitation), Jakarta: FBB, Praxis and YAPPIKA, 2006.
“Bait yang Retak: puisi perempuan” (“Fractured verse: women’s poetry”). Jogja: FKY. 2005.
“The Aftermath in Aceh”, (with Ben Terrall), Counterpunch, December 2004.
“Failure of the Imaginary: Gendered Excess of the Indonesian Nation,” in Trans-status subjects: Gender in the globalization of South and Southeast Asia. S. Sarker and E.N. De, eds. (Durham: Duke University Press), 2002.
“Capital, Crisis, and Chaos in Indonesia and Malaysia in a Globalizing Era,” co-authored with Christine Chin, in Egalitarian Politics in the Age of Globalization: Securing a Liberal World Order, Craig N. Murphy, ed. (London MacMillan), 2002.
“Constructing Boundaries and Beyond” in Households in Indonesia, J. Koning et.al., eds. (London: Curzon Press). 2000.
“The Free Aceh Movement and the disintegration of Indonesia”, BCAS, Vol. 32, Nos. 1 and 2, January-June 2000.
“Models and Maniacs: Rearticulating the Female in Indonesia” in L. Sears, ed. Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia (Durham: Duke University Press), 1996.