Associate Lecturer in Indonesian

Wulan Dirgantoro joined the School of Asian Languages and Studies in July 2007 as an Associate Lecturer in the Indonesian studies program. She is based on the Launceston campus. Wulan has an MA in Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne and a BA (Fine Arts) from the Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia. Prior to joining UTAS, she worked in various museums and galleries in Indonesia and Australia and she has also taught in her almamater, ITB.

Research Interests

Wulan's research interests include Southeast Asian contemporary art, contemporary craft, cross-cultural collaborations, museum studies, popular culture and gender studies. In 2007 she curated Intimate Distance: Tracing Feminism in Indonesian contemporary art at the National Gallery of Indonesia (Jakarta) in conjunction with the launch of Indonesian Women Artists: The Curtain Opens, the first book dedicated to tracing the roles and achievements of women artists in Indonesia from the 1950s to the present. She is currently writing her PhD thesis on the artist's body in Indonesian contemporary art, using feminist theories as an analytical framework.

Teaching

Wulan co-coordinates and teaches first and second-year Indonesian language units and contributes to the third-year Indonesian language unit. She is also involved in a number of Indonesian and Asian Studies units, including Indonesian Popular Culture (HMN309) and Media and Society in Indonesia (HMN211/311). She is keen to promote Indonesian visual cultures and other aspects of Indonesian art and culture in the wider community in order to build stronger networks between Australian and Indonesian arts practitioners.

Units

• HMN101 - Introductory Indonesian A
  
• HMN102 - Introductory Indonesian B
  
• HMN315 - Reading Indonesian A
  
• HMN316 - Reading Indonesian B
  
• HMN415 - Reading Indonesian A
  
• HMN416 - Reading Indonesian B
  

Selected Publications:

• C Bianpoen, F Wardani, W Dirgantoro, 2007, 'Indonesian Women Artisits: The Curtain Opens', Yayasan Seni Rupa Indonesia, Jakarta

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