Ommundsen, Wenche

Ommundsen, Wenche

Research Professor

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts
School of the Arts, English and Media

wenche@uow.edu.au

Research Areas

2005 - LITERARY STUDIES

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2019	Exoticism or visceral cosmopolitanism: difference and desire in Chinese Australian women's writing Published In Journal of Intercultural Studies
2019	Worlds at Home: on Sneja Gunew Published In Sydney Review of Books
2018	Multilingual Writing in a Monolingual Nation: Australia’s hidden literary archive Published In Sydney Review of Books
2018	Shahrazad in Cronulla: David Foster's Retelling of One Thousand and One Nights in Sons of the Rumour Published In Journal of Intercultural Studies
2018	澳大利亚华人（华裔）文学述评 Published In ?
2017	The literatures of Chinese Australia Published In Oxford Research Encyclopedias
2016	Poison, polygamy and postcolonial politics: The first Chinese Australian novel Published In Journal of Postcolonial Writing
2015	No man’s land: Migration, masculinity and Ouyang Yu’s The Eastern Slope Chronicle Published In Antipodes: a global journal of Australian/New Zealand literature
2015	Towards a Multilingual National Literature: The Tung Wah Times and the origins of Chinese Australian Writing Published In Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
2012	Transnational imaginaries: reading Asian Australian writing Published In Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
2011	Sex and the global city: chick lit with a difference Published In Contemporary Women's Writing
2011	Transnational (Il)literacies: Reading the "New Chinese Literature in Australia" in China Published In Antipodes: a global journal of Australian/New Zealand literature
2011	‘This story does not begin on a boat’: what is Australian about Asian Australian writing? Published In Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
2010	"She'll be right, mate": multiculturalism and the culture of benign neglect Published In Australian Cultural History
2009	Brave new world: myth and migration in recent Asian-Australian picture books Published In Coolabah
2009	Literary Festivals and Cultural Consumption Published In Australian Literary Studies
2009	Special issue: Australian Literature in a Global World - Introduction Published In Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
2007	Editorial - Building cultural citizenship: multiculturalism and children's literature Published In Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature
2007	Review of "Ways of Seeing China: From Yellow Peril to Shangrila" by Timothy Kendall Published In Australian Literary Studies

Chapter

Year	Title
2018	From White Australia to the Asian Century: Literature and migration in Australia Published In Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Writers since 1945: Fourteen national Contexts in Europe and Beyond Publisher Boston
2017	Teaching Australian Multicultural Literature Published In Teaching Australian and New Zealand literature Publisher United States
2011	Disappearing race: normative whiteness and cultural appropriation in Australian refugee narratives Published In Narrating Race: Asia, (Trans) Nationalism, Social Change Publisher Amsterdam
2010	In Ren Jia Country: negotiating cultural belonging in Diaspora Published In Cultural Citizenship and the Challenges of Globalization Publisher New Jersey, USA
2010	Introduction Published In Cultural Citizenship and the Challenges of Globalization Publisher New Jersey, USA
2010	Productive crisis: cultural citizenship in social theory Published In Cultural Citizenship and the Challenges of Globalization Publisher New Jersey, USA
2010	Work in Progress: Multicultural Writing in Australia Published In Modern Australian Criticism and Theory
2009	Looking Australia in the face: politics and contemporary literary practice Published In Australian Studies: Reading History, Culture and Identity
2009	Multicultural literature Published In The English Teacher's Handbook A to Z
2009	Salman Rushdie: The postcolonial writer as global brand Published In Celebrity colonialism: fame, power and representation in colonial and postcolonial cultures
2008	From China with love: chick lit and the new crossover fiction Published In China Fictions/English Language: Literary Essays in Diaspora, Memory, Story
2008	Seeing Double: The Quest for Chineseness in Australia Published In Cultural Studies and Literary Theory Publisher www.scupress.com.cn
2007	From the altar to the market-place and back again: understanding literary celebrity Published In Stardom and Celebrity
2007	Have culture, will travel: cultural citizenship and the imagined communities of diaspora; a fiction Published In Readings of the Particular: the Postcolonial in the Postnational
2007	Multicultural Writing in Australia Published In A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900
2007	She'll be right, mate: multiculturalism and the culture of benign neglect Published In Australia who cares?

Editor Of

Book
- Cultural Citizenship and the Challenges of Globalization. New Jersey, USA. 2010

Investigator On

Year	Title
2013	Building Australian Studies at Wuhan University Awarded by: Australia China Council Funding Scheme: Research Grant
2013	New transnationalisms: Australia's multilingual literary heritage Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2013	The AustLit resource: supporting research in Australian literary and narrative cultures Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2012	Humanities in the digital age: infrastructure for Australian literary studies, publishing studies, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2011	Digital humanities practice in Australian Literary Studies: data development, structural enhancement and open access innovation (AustLit Phase IV) Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2010	eResearch infrastructure for humanities scholars in literary studies and film and television studies across genres, formats and historical periods Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2009	AustLit Phase Three: transforming the study of Australian literary through a collabortive eResearch environment Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2008	Asia Pacific Transculturalisms: New theoretical Perspectives Awarded by: Asia Pacific Futures Research Network (APFN) Funding Scheme: Grant
2008	AustLit Phase Two: Research Infrastructure for Humanities and Edcuation Researchers Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2008	Globalising Australian literature: Asian-Australian writing/Australian writing in Asia Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2007	AustLit: Phase Two - humanities research infrastructure development, augmentation and expansion Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2007	Scaling Research Heights: postgraduate and early career researcher workshop on leadership and management in research on Asia and the Pacific Awarded by: Asia Pacific Futures Research Network (APFN) Funding Scheme: Grant
	Enhancing the Wuhan University - University of Wollongong Partnership - Building Australian Studies at Wuhan University Awarded by: International Academic Cooperation Training Program Funding Scheme: Grant

Research Areas

2005 - LITERARY STUDIES

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2019	Exoticism or visceral cosmopolitanism: difference and desire in Chinese Australian women's writing Published In Journal of Intercultural Studies
2019	Worlds at Home: on Sneja Gunew Published In Sydney Review of Books
2018	Multilingual Writing in a Monolingual Nation: Australia’s hidden literary archive Published In Sydney Review of Books
2018	Shahrazad in Cronulla: David Foster's Retelling of One Thousand and One Nights in Sons of the Rumour Published In Journal of Intercultural Studies
2018	澳大利亚华人（华裔）文学述评 Published In ?
2017	The literatures of Chinese Australia Published In Oxford Research Encyclopedias
2016	Poison, polygamy and postcolonial politics: The first Chinese Australian novel Published In Journal of Postcolonial Writing
2015	No man’s land: Migration, masculinity and Ouyang Yu’s The Eastern Slope Chronicle Published In Antipodes: a global journal of Australian/New Zealand literature
2015	Towards a Multilingual National Literature: The Tung Wah Times and the origins of Chinese Australian Writing Published In Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
2012	Transnational imaginaries: reading Asian Australian writing Published In Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
2011	Sex and the global city: chick lit with a difference Published In Contemporary Women's Writing
2011	Transnational (Il)literacies: Reading the "New Chinese Literature in Australia" in China Published In Antipodes: a global journal of Australian/New Zealand literature
2011	‘This story does not begin on a boat’: what is Australian about Asian Australian writing? Published In Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
2010	"She'll be right, mate": multiculturalism and the culture of benign neglect Published In Australian Cultural History
2009	Brave new world: myth and migration in recent Asian-Australian picture books Published In Coolabah
2009	Literary Festivals and Cultural Consumption Published In Australian Literary Studies
2009	Special issue: Australian Literature in a Global World - Introduction Published In Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
2007	Editorial - Building cultural citizenship: multiculturalism and children's literature Published In Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature
2007	Review of "Ways of Seeing China: From Yellow Peril to Shangrila" by Timothy Kendall Published In Australian Literary Studies

Chapter

Year	Title
2018	From White Australia to the Asian Century: Literature and migration in Australia Published In Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Writers since 1945: Fourteen national Contexts in Europe and Beyond Publisher Boston
2017	Teaching Australian Multicultural Literature Published In Teaching Australian and New Zealand literature Publisher United States
2011	Disappearing race: normative whiteness and cultural appropriation in Australian refugee narratives Published In Narrating Race: Asia, (Trans) Nationalism, Social Change Publisher Amsterdam
2010	In Ren Jia Country: negotiating cultural belonging in Diaspora Published In Cultural Citizenship and the Challenges of Globalization Publisher New Jersey, USA
2010	Introduction Published In Cultural Citizenship and the Challenges of Globalization Publisher New Jersey, USA
2010	Productive crisis: cultural citizenship in social theory Published In Cultural Citizenship and the Challenges of Globalization Publisher New Jersey, USA
2010	Work in Progress: Multicultural Writing in Australia Published In Modern Australian Criticism and Theory
2009	Looking Australia in the face: politics and contemporary literary practice Published In Australian Studies: Reading History, Culture and Identity
2009	Multicultural literature Published In The English Teacher's Handbook A to Z
2009	Salman Rushdie: The postcolonial writer as global brand Published In Celebrity colonialism: fame, power and representation in colonial and postcolonial cultures
2008	From China with love: chick lit and the new crossover fiction Published In China Fictions/English Language: Literary Essays in Diaspora, Memory, Story
2008	Seeing Double: The Quest for Chineseness in Australia Published In Cultural Studies and Literary Theory Publisher www.scupress.com.cn
2007	From the altar to the market-place and back again: understanding literary celebrity Published In Stardom and Celebrity
2007	Have culture, will travel: cultural citizenship and the imagined communities of diaspora; a fiction Published In Readings of the Particular: the Postcolonial in the Postnational
2007	Multicultural Writing in Australia Published In A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900
2007	She'll be right, mate: multiculturalism and the culture of benign neglect Published In Australia who cares?

Editor Of

Book
- Cultural Citizenship and the Challenges of Globalization. New Jersey, USA. 2010

Investigator On

Year	Title
2013	Building Australian Studies at Wuhan University Awarded by: Australia China Council Funding Scheme: Research Grant
2013	New transnationalisms: Australia's multilingual literary heritage Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2013	The AustLit resource: supporting research in Australian literary and narrative cultures Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2012	Humanities in the digital age: infrastructure for Australian literary studies, publishing studies, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2011	Digital humanities practice in Australian Literary Studies: data development, structural enhancement and open access innovation (AustLit Phase IV) Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2010	eResearch infrastructure for humanities scholars in literary studies and film and television studies across genres, formats and historical periods Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2009	AustLit Phase Three: transforming the study of Australian literary through a collabortive eResearch environment Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2008	Asia Pacific Transculturalisms: New theoretical Perspectives Awarded by: Asia Pacific Futures Research Network (APFN) Funding Scheme: Grant
2008	AustLit Phase Two: Research Infrastructure for Humanities and Edcuation Researchers Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2008	Globalising Australian literature: Asian-Australian writing/Australian writing in Asia Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2007	AustLit: Phase Two - humanities research infrastructure development, augmentation and expansion Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2007	Scaling Research Heights: postgraduate and early career researcher workshop on leadership and management in research on Asia and the Pacific Awarded by: Asia Pacific Futures Research Network (APFN) Funding Scheme: Grant
	Enhancing the Wuhan University - University of Wollongong Partnership - Building Australian Studies at Wuhan University Awarded by: International Academic Cooperation Training Program Funding Scheme: Grant

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Research Areas

2005 - LITERARY STUDIES