Gender, Islam and Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesia

About

Dr. Melani Budianta is a lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities University of Indonesia. Her research interests tie in with gender and postcolonial studies comparative literature and cultural studies. She received her doctorate from Cornell University in 1992. She is an active member of the international journal Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Routledge the editorial board on anthology at the Project of American Literature in Asia (PALA) and she holds a position as fellow at Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives (ARENA). Several of her research articles have been included in international publications. Two cases in point are Hijacking Shakespeare; The three faces of Indonesian Julius Caesars published in Shakespeares Asian Journeys - Critical Encounters Cultural Geographies and the Politics of Travel edited by Bi-qi Beatrice Lei Judy Celine Ick amd Poonam Trivedi (2016) and The Dragon Dance: Shifting Meaning of Chineseness in in Indonesia in Self and Subject in Motion Southeast Asian Pacific Cosmopolitans (2007) edited by Kathryn Robinson. Her most recently released article is Smart Kampung: Doing Cultural Studies in the Global South (2019) published in the journal Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.Dr Monika Arnez is an associate professor for Social and Cultural Anthropology and head of the research cluster Anthropology Advancements in the Department of Asian Studies at Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci Czech Republic. She participated in the Horizon 2020 projects Competing Regional Integrations in Southeast Asia (CRISEA; 2017-2021) and Integration in Southeast Asia: Trajectories of Inclusion Dynamics of Exclusion (SEATIDE 2012-2016). She was an Excellent Researcher in the Sinophone Borderlands project which was funded by EU Structural Funds. Among her publications are her co-edited books Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2017; together with Jan van der Putten Arndt Graf and Edwin Wieringa) and The Role of Religions in the European Perception of Insular and Mainland Southeast Asia: Travel Accounts of the 16th to the 21st Century (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2016; together with Jürgen Sarnowsky). On the topic of gender and Islam she published Dimensions of Morality: The transnational Writers Collective in Bijdragen tot de Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde 172(4): 449-478 together with Eva Nisa A Dialogue with God? Islam and lesbian relationships in two Post-Suharto narratives in: Susanne Schröter (ed) Gender and Islam in Southeast Asia. Womens Rights Movements Religious Resurgence and Local Traditions (Leiden: Brill 2013) p. 73-94 and Empowering women through Islam: Fatayat NU between tradition and change in the Journal of Islamic Studies 21 (1): 59-88 as a single author.