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 Volume 40 Pages 595 - 607 ISSN 0725-6868 Altmetric
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
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	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	‘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)
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)
2011	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)
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	Feminine or Feminist? Representations of Chinese Women in Chinese Australian Literature	Tian, Zhuoling
Doctor of Philosophy	Haunting in Chinese Australian Writing	Xiong, Xiao

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 Volume 40 Pages 595 - 607 ISSN 0725-6868 Altmetric
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
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	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	‘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)
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)
2011	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)
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	Feminine or Feminist? Representations of Chinese Women in Chinese Australian Literature	Tian, Zhuoling
Doctor of Philosophy	Haunting in Chinese Australian Writing	Xiong, Xiao

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Research Areas

2005 - LITERARY STUDIES