The University of Western Australia

W/Prof Krishna Sen

Winthrop Professor/Dean
Faculty of Arts

Contact details

Address

Faculty of Arts
The University of Western Australia (M200)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 3870

Fax

6488 1059

Email

dean-arts@uwa.edu.au

Location

Room G19, Arts Building, Crawley campus

Biography

Winthrop Professor Krishna Sen, an internationally recognised scholar of contemporary Indonesian and media studies commenced her appointment as Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia in January 2009. She has held teaching and research positions at Murdoch and Curtin Universities, and was the Executive Director for Humanities and Creative Arts at the Australian Research Council in Canberra, just prior to taking up her position at UWA. Krishna is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities (FAHA), a Member of the Hawke Research Institute Advisory Board,and President and Chair of the Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DASSH). She serves on the editorial boards of several national and international journals.

Key research

Indonesian media and culture; human rights in Indonesia; gender studies.

Publications

BOOKS

2010, Politics and the Media in 21st century Indonesia Routledge, London (co-edited with DT Hill, Introduction by Sen)

2008, Political Regimes and the Media in Asia, Routledge, London (co-edited with Terence Lee, Introduction by Sen) in hard and paperback.

2005, The Internet in Indonesia’s New Democracy, Routledge, London (Co-authored with David Hill) – 2008 re-issue in paperback – 27 citations

2000, Media, Culture and Politics in Indonesia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne (Co-authored with David Hill); 2006 (second printing) Equinox Publishing Jakarta in ‘Classic Indonesia’ series –39 citations

1998, Gender and Power in Affluent Asia, Routledge, London. (Co-edited with Maila Stivens) – 50 citations

1994, Indonesian Cinema: Framing the New Order, Zed, London – 20 citations


BOOK CHAPTERS

‘Violence out of movies in Indonesia’, in Chua Beng Huat (ed.) Violence in Asian Cinema, under consideration by Hong Kong University Press, forthcoming.

‘Re-forming Media in Indonesia’s transition to Democracy’ in Sen and Hill (eds) Politics and the Media in 21st century Indonesia Routledge, London

‘Mediating Political Transition in Asia’ in Sen and Lee (eds.) Political Regimes and the Media in Asia, Routledge, London, 2008, pp.1-10

‘Chinese’ Indonesians in National Cinema’, in Wanning Sun (ed.) Media and the Chinese Diaspora: community, Communication and Commerce, Routledge, London, New York, 2006, 119-156 (Originally published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, details in ‘Journal articles’ below.)

‘Indonesia: Screening a Nation’ in Anne Tereska Ciecko (ed.) Contemporary Asian Cinema: Popular Culture in a Global Frame, Berg, Oxford, 2006, pp. 96-107.

‘Global Industry, National Politics: Popular Music in Contemporary Indonesia’ (joint author: Hill) in Allen Chun, Ned Rossiter and Brian Shoesmith (eds.) Refashioning Pop-Music in Asia, Curzon Press, Surrey: UK, 2004, pp. 75-88.

‘What’s Oppositional in Indonesian Cinema’ in Anthony Gooneratne and Wimal Dissanayake (ed) Re-Thinking Third World Cinema, Routledge, N.Y. and London, 2003, pp. 147-165.

‘The Mega Factor in Politics: A New President or a New Kind of Presidency?’ in Katherine Robinson and Sharon Bessel (eds.) Women in Indonesia: Gender, Equity and Development, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 2002, pp.13-27.

'Indonesia: media and the end of authoritarian rule' in Munroe E. Price et al (eds.) Media Reform: Democratizing the media; democratizing the state, Routledge, London and New York, 2002, pp. 69-88.

‘Madonna of Sumba: Notes on an Indonesian Film’, in A.K. Bagchi (ed.) Identity, Locality and Globalisation: Experiences of India and Indonesia, Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi, 2001, pp. 387-399.

‘The Human Rights of Gendered Citizens: Notes from Indonesia’ in Anne Marie Hilsdon, Maila Stivens, Vera Mackie and Martha McIntyre (eds.) Human Rights and Gender Politics: Asia-Pacific Perspectives, Routledge, London, 2000, pp.107-121.

‘The Internet in Indonesia’s New Democracy’ (co-author: Hill) in Peter Ferdinand (ed.) The Internet, Democracy and Democratization, Frank Cass, London, 2000, pp.119-136.

‘Indonesian women at work: re-framing the subject’ in Sen & Stivens (eds.) Gender and Power in Affluent Asia, Routledge, London, 1998, pp.35-62.

‘Public Service Broadcast in a Global Era’ in Tessa Piper (ed.) Open skies: The challenges of broadcasting in Asia, Institut Studi Arus Informasi-International Federation of Journalists, Jakarta, 1997, pp. 11-17.

‘Menafsirkan Feminisme dalam Sinema Orde Baru’ (Understanding Feminism in the Cinema of the New Order) in Idy Subandi Ibrahim (ed.) Ecstasy Gaya Hidup: Kebudayaan Pop dalam Masyarakat Komoditas Indonesia, Mizan, Bandung, Indonesia, 1997, pp.306-329. (in Indonesian language)

‘Cinema Polic(ing)y in Indonesia’, in Film Policy: International, National and Regional Perspectives, Albert Moran (ed.) Routledge, London & New York, 1996, pp.172-184.

‘Australia, Asia and the Media’, in Australia in its Asian Context, Gavin Jones (ed.) Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Occasional Paper No. 1, Canberra 1996, pp .44-49. (Revised version of a paper presented at the 1995 annual meeting of the Academy.)

‘Chapter 7: The Media’ (co-authored with Chris Berry, David Birch, Susan Dermody, Annette Hamilton, & Mary Quilty,) in Anthony Milner and Mary Quilty (eds.) Australia in Asia: Comparing Cultures, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1996, pp.193-223.

‘Politics of Melodrama in Indonesian Cinema’ in Wimal Dissanayake (ed.) Melodrama and Asian Cinema, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993, pp.205 217.

‘Repression and Resistance: Interpretations of the Feminine in Indonesian Cinema’, in Virginia Hooker (ed), Culture and Society in New Order Indonesia: 1965 1990, Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1993, pp.116 133.

‘Power and Poverty in Indonesian Cinema’, in Paul Alexander (ed.) Creating Indonesian Cultures, Oceania, Sydney, 1989, pp.1 20.

‘Filming “History” Under the New Order’, in Krishna Sen (ed.) Histories and Stories: Cinema in New Order Indonesia, CSEAS, Monash University, Vic., 1988, pp.49 59.

‘History Making: A Study of some Recent Indonesian Films’ in Levy et al (eds.) The Second Australian History and Film Conference Papers, Australian Film and Television School, Sydney, 1984, pp.159 173.

‘Wajah Wanita Dalam Film Indonesia’ (The Woman’s face in Indonesian Cinema – written originally in Indonesian in Indonesia’s most respected academic journal Prisma) in Misbach Yusa Biran (ed.) Tentang Perfilman Nasional, Yayasan Artis, Jakarta, 1983. This collection was an anthology of what the editor regarded as the most significant writings on Indonesian cinema to date. Mine was the only piece by a foreign scholar.


REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

‘Chinese’ Indonesians in National Cinema’, in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, vol.7 No.1, March 2006, pp. 171-184.

‘The trials of Schapelle Corby’, Australian Journal of Anthropology, September, 2006.

‘Radio Days: media-politics in Indonesia’ in The Pacific Review, 16:4, 2003, pp. 573-590.
‘Gendered Citizens in the New Indonesian Democracy’, Review of Indonesian and Malayan Affairs, University of Sydney, 36:1, 2002, pp. 51-65.

‘Netizens in Combat: Conflict on the Internet in Indonesia’ (co-author: Hill) in Asian Studies Review, 26:2, June 2002, pp.165-187.

‘The Internet in Indonesia’s New Democracy’ (co-author: Hill) in Democratization, (Warwick University, U.K.) 7:1, Spring 2000, pp.119-136.

‘Wiring the Warung to Global Gateways: the Internet in Indonesia’ (co-author: Hill) in Indonesia (Cornell University) 63, April 1997, pp.67-90.

‘An Indonesian Film Called Primitif’, in Anthropology Today (Royal Anthropological Institute of Britain and Ireland, London), 10:4 1994, pp. 20-23.

‘Changing Horizons of Television in Indonesia’, in Southeast Asian Journal of Social Sciences (Singapore), Vol. 22 1994, pp.116-124.

‘Women Directors in Indonesia: ... but whose films?’, Cinemaya, (New Delhi, UNESCO) No.25-26, 1994, pp. 10-13.

‘When A Woman Acts’ in Cinemaya (UNESCO, New Delhi,), No. 10, 1991. This article was translated and published in Chinese as ‘Dian Ying Xian Shan’ (Film Art), Journal of Taiwan Film Archives, 9:6, 1991.

‘Si Boy Looked at Johnny: The Indonesian Screen at the Turn of the Decade’, in Continuum (Perth), 4:2 1991, pp.136 151.

‘Politics of Melodrama in Indonesian Cinema’, in East West Film Journal, (Honolulu) 5:1 1991, pp. 67 81.

‘Film Remaja: The Construction of Parental Power’, in The Asian Studies Association of Australia Review, Vol. 10, No.2, 1986.
‘Hidden From History: Aspects of Indonesian Cinema 1955 65’, in Review of Indonesian and Malayan Affairs (RIMA, Sydney), Vol.19, No.2, Summer 1985, pp.1 50.

‘Indonesian Film History: In Search of a Perspective’ in The Australian Journal of Screen Theory (Melbourne), Double Issue 15/16, 1983, pp.113 131.


WORKING PAPERS

With Chris Berry, David Birch, Susan Dermody, Annette Hamilton, and Mary Quilty Perceiving the Media, Australian Asian Perceptions Project Paper No. 8, Australia Asia Institute, Sydney, 1995.

Krishna Sen (ed.) Histories and Stories: Cinema in New Order Indonesia, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1988.


NON-REFEREED SCHOLARLY JOURNALS

‘Critical Perspective on the media in Indonesia’, Jurnal ALTERNATIF (Atma Jaya University, Yogyakarta), IV:12, 1996.

‘Persoalan Persoalan Sosial dalam Film Indonesia’ in Prisma, (Indonesia’s most highly regarded social science journal, Jakarta) 19:5, 1990.

‘Wajah Wanita Dalam Film Indonesia: beberapa catatan’ in Prisma, July 1981. (This article was re printed in Misbach Yusa Biran (ed.) Tentang Perfilman Nasional, Yayasan Artis Film, Jakarta, 1983.

‘The Image of Women in Indonesian Films’ in Prisma, The Indonesian Indicator (Jakarta), No. 24, 1982.

I have also written many articles in more popular publications, particularly in Inside Indonesia (Melbourne), some under a pseudonym.




ENCYCLOPAEDIA ENTRIES

‘Television in Southeast Asia’ (3000 words) in the Encyclopaedia of Television, Second Revised Edition. Editor Horace Newcomb. Publisher Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. 2004.

‘Indonesia: Status of Media’ (7,500 words) in the Encyclopaedia of International Media and Communications. Editor-in-Chief – Donald H. Johnston, Columbia University, Academic Press, 2003.

‘Indonesia: Broadcasting’ (1200 words) and ‘Indonesia: Film’ (1000 words) in Derek Jones (ed.) Censorship: A World Encyclopaedia, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, London, Chicago, 2002, Vol. 2.

Languages

English, Indonesian, Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit

Memberships

Asian Studies Association of Australia

Honours and awards

Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities (FAHA)

Research profile

Research profile and publications