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	Worlds at Home: on Sneja Gunew Published In Sydney Review of Books Volume 22 February Pages 1 - 3
2018	Multilingual Writing in a Monolingual Nation: Australia’s hidden literary archive Published In Sydney Review of Books Volume 24 July 2018 Pages 1 - 10
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 Volume 39 Pages 570 - 580 ISSN 0725-6868 Altmetric
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 Volume June Pages 1 - 26 Altmetric
2016	Poison, polygamy and postcolonial politics: The first Chinese Australian novel Published In Journal of Postcolonial Writing Volume 52 Pages 533 - 544 ISSN 1744-9855 Altmetric
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 Volume 29 Pages 439 - 451 ISSN 0893-5580
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 Volume 15 Pages 1 - 11 ISSN 1447-8986
2012	Transnational imaginaries: reading Asian Australian writing Published In Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature Volume 12 Pages 1 - 8 ISSN 1447-8986
2011	Sex and the global city: chick lit with a difference Published In Contemporary Women's Writing Volume 5 Pages 107 - 124 ISSN 1754-1476 Altmetric
2011	Transnational (Il)literacies: Reading the "New Chinese Literature in Australia" in China Published In Antipodes: a global journal of Australian/New Zealand literature Volume 25 Pages 83 - 89 ISSN 0893-5580
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 Volume 25 Pages 503 - 513 ISSN 1030-4312 Altmetric
2010	"She'll be right, mate": multiculturalism and the culture of benign neglect Published In Australian Cultural History Volume 28 Pages 131 - 139 ISSN 0728-8433 Altmetric
2009	Brave new world: myth and migration in recent Asian-Australian picture books Published In Coolabah Volume 3 Pages 220 - 226 ISSN 1988-5946
2009	Literary Festivals and Cultural Consumption Published In Australian Literary Studies Volume 24 Pages 19 - 34 ISSN 0004-9697
2009	Special issue: Australian Literature in a Global World - Introduction Published In Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature Volume Special Issue Pages 1 - 7 ISSN 1447-8986
2007	Editorial - Building cultural citizenship: multiculturalism and children's literature Published In Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature Volume 17 Pages 3 - 6 ISSN 1034-9243
2007	Review of "Ways of Seeing China: From Yellow Peril to Shangrila" by Timothy Kendall Published In Australian Literary Studies Volume 23 Pages 123 - 125 ISSN 0004-9697

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: Leiden Pages 9 - 42 ISBN 9789004363243
2017	Teaching Australian Multicultural Literature Published In Teaching Australian and New Zealand literature Publisher United States: Modern Language Association * Book Publications Program Pages 77 - 86
2011	Disappearing race: normative whiteness and cultural appropriation in Australian refugee narratives Published In Narrating Race: Asia, (Trans) Nationalism, Social Change Publisher Amsterdam: Rodopi Pages 235 - 251 ISBN 9789042034242
2010	In Ren Jia Country: negotiating cultural belonging in Diaspora Published In Cultural Citizenship and the Challenges of Globalization Publisher New Jersey, USA: Hampton Press Pages 181 - 199 ISBN 9781572739253 Edition 1
2010	Introduction Published In Cultural Citizenship and the Challenges of Globalization Publisher New Jersey, USA: Hampton Press Pages 1 - 21 ISBN 9781572739253 Edition 1 Altmetric
2010	Productive crisis: cultural citizenship in social theory Published In Cultural Citizenship and the Challenges of Globalization Publisher New Jersey, USA: Hampton Press Pages 267 - 272 ISBN 9781572739253 Edition 1
2010	Work in Progress: Multicultural Writing in Australia Published In Modern Australian Criticism and Theory Publisher China Ocean University Press Pages 243 - 257
2009	Looking Australia in the face: politics and contemporary literary practice Published In Australian Studies: Reading History, Culture and Identity Publisher Worldview Publications Pages 53 - 66
2009	Multicultural literature Published In The English Teacher's Handbook A to Z Publisher Phoenix Education Pty Ltd Pages 200 - 202
2009	Salman Rushdie: The postcolonial writer as global brand Published In Celebrity colonialism: fame, power and representation in colonial and postcolonial cultures Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing Pages 159 - 172
2008	From China with love: chick lit and the new crossover fiction Published In China Fictions/English Language: Literary Essays in Diaspora, Memory, Story Publisher Rodopi Pages 327 - 345
2008	Seeing Double: The Quest for Chineseness in Australia Published In Cultural Studies and Literary Theory Publisher www.scupress.com.cn: Sichuan University Press Pages 90 - 109
2007	From the altar to the market-place and back again: understanding literary celebrity Published In Stardom and Celebrity Publisher Sage Pages 244 - 255
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 Publisher Rodopi Pages 3 - 17
2007	Multicultural Writing in Australia Published In A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900 Publisher Camden House Pages 73 - 86
2007	She'll be right, mate: multiculturalism and the culture of benign neglect Published In Australia who cares? Publisher Network Books Pages 41 - 52 Altmetric

Editor Of

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

Investigator On

Year	Title
2016	Enhancing the Wuhan University - University of Wollongong Partnership - Building Australian Studies at Wuhan University Awarded by: International Academic Cooperation Training Program Funding Scheme: Grant
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

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Representations of Misogyny in Diasporic Chinese Literature
Doctor of Philosophy	Feminine or Feminist: Representations of Chinese Women in Chinese Australian Literature	Tian, Zhuoling
Doctor of Philosophy	Cultural in-betweenness and Hybridity: 'Haunting' Chinese Australian Writing	Xiong, Xiao
Doctor of Philosophy	Representations of Iran and Iranians in Australian Literature	Mayabadi, Farzaneh

Research Areas

2005 - LITERARY STUDIES

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2019	Worlds at Home: on Sneja Gunew Published In Sydney Review of Books Volume 22 February Pages 1 - 3
2018	Multilingual Writing in a Monolingual Nation: Australia’s hidden literary archive Published In Sydney Review of Books Volume 24 July 2018 Pages 1 - 10
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 Volume 39 Pages 570 - 580 ISSN 0725-6868 Altmetric
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 Volume June Pages 1 - 26 Altmetric
2016	Poison, polygamy and postcolonial politics: The first Chinese Australian novel Published In Journal of Postcolonial Writing Volume 52 Pages 533 - 544 ISSN 1744-9855 Altmetric
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 Volume 29 Pages 439 - 451 ISSN 0893-5580
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 Volume 15 Pages 1 - 11 ISSN 1447-8986
2012	Transnational imaginaries: reading Asian Australian writing Published In Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature Volume 12 Pages 1 - 8 ISSN 1447-8986
2011	Sex and the global city: chick lit with a difference Published In Contemporary Women's Writing Volume 5 Pages 107 - 124 ISSN 1754-1476 Altmetric
2011	Transnational (Il)literacies: Reading the "New Chinese Literature in Australia" in China Published In Antipodes: a global journal of Australian/New Zealand literature Volume 25 Pages 83 - 89 ISSN 0893-5580
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 Volume 25 Pages 503 - 513 ISSN 1030-4312 Altmetric
2010	"She'll be right, mate": multiculturalism and the culture of benign neglect Published In Australian Cultural History Volume 28 Pages 131 - 139 ISSN 0728-8433 Altmetric
2009	Brave new world: myth and migration in recent Asian-Australian picture books Published In Coolabah Volume 3 Pages 220 - 226 ISSN 1988-5946
2009	Literary Festivals and Cultural Consumption Published In Australian Literary Studies Volume 24 Pages 19 - 34 ISSN 0004-9697
2009	Special issue: Australian Literature in a Global World - Introduction Published In Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature Volume Special Issue Pages 1 - 7 ISSN 1447-8986
2007	Editorial - Building cultural citizenship: multiculturalism and children's literature Published In Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature Volume 17 Pages 3 - 6 ISSN 1034-9243
2007	Review of "Ways of Seeing China: From Yellow Peril to Shangrila" by Timothy Kendall Published In Australian Literary Studies Volume 23 Pages 123 - 125 ISSN 0004-9697

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: Leiden Pages 9 - 42 ISBN 9789004363243
2017	Teaching Australian Multicultural Literature Published In Teaching Australian and New Zealand literature Publisher United States: Modern Language Association * Book Publications Program Pages 77 - 86
2011	Disappearing race: normative whiteness and cultural appropriation in Australian refugee narratives Published In Narrating Race: Asia, (Trans) Nationalism, Social Change Publisher Amsterdam: Rodopi Pages 235 - 251 ISBN 9789042034242
2010	In Ren Jia Country: negotiating cultural belonging in Diaspora Published In Cultural Citizenship and the Challenges of Globalization Publisher New Jersey, USA: Hampton Press Pages 181 - 199 ISBN 9781572739253 Edition 1
2010	Introduction Published In Cultural Citizenship and the Challenges of Globalization Publisher New Jersey, USA: Hampton Press Pages 1 - 21 ISBN 9781572739253 Edition 1 Altmetric
2010	Productive crisis: cultural citizenship in social theory Published In Cultural Citizenship and the Challenges of Globalization Publisher New Jersey, USA: Hampton Press Pages 267 - 272 ISBN 9781572739253 Edition 1
2010	Work in Progress: Multicultural Writing in Australia Published In Modern Australian Criticism and Theory Publisher China Ocean University Press Pages 243 - 257
2009	Looking Australia in the face: politics and contemporary literary practice Published In Australian Studies: Reading History, Culture and Identity Publisher Worldview Publications Pages 53 - 66
2009	Multicultural literature Published In The English Teacher's Handbook A to Z Publisher Phoenix Education Pty Ltd Pages 200 - 202
2009	Salman Rushdie: The postcolonial writer as global brand Published In Celebrity colonialism: fame, power and representation in colonial and postcolonial cultures Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing Pages 159 - 172
2008	From China with love: chick lit and the new crossover fiction Published In China Fictions/English Language: Literary Essays in Diaspora, Memory, Story Publisher Rodopi Pages 327 - 345
2008	Seeing Double: The Quest for Chineseness in Australia Published In Cultural Studies and Literary Theory Publisher www.scupress.com.cn: Sichuan University Press Pages 90 - 109
2007	From the altar to the market-place and back again: understanding literary celebrity Published In Stardom and Celebrity Publisher Sage Pages 244 - 255
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 Publisher Rodopi Pages 3 - 17
2007	Multicultural Writing in Australia Published In A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900 Publisher Camden House Pages 73 - 86
2007	She'll be right, mate: multiculturalism and the culture of benign neglect Published In Australia who cares? Publisher Network Books Pages 41 - 52 Altmetric

Editor Of

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

Investigator On

Year	Title
2016	Enhancing the Wuhan University - University of Wollongong Partnership - Building Australian Studies at Wuhan University Awarded by: International Academic Cooperation Training Program Funding Scheme: Grant
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

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Representations of Misogyny in Diasporic Chinese Literature
Doctor of Philosophy	Feminine or Feminist: Representations of Chinese Women in Chinese Australian Literature	Tian, Zhuoling
Doctor of Philosophy	Cultural in-betweenness and Hybridity: 'Haunting' Chinese Australian Writing	Xiong, Xiao
Doctor of Philosophy	Representations of Iran and Iranians in Australian Literature	Mayabadi, Farzaneh

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2005 - LITERARY STUDIES