Asri Saraswati

Dr. Saraswati’s field of research is literary and cultural studies. Her research focuses on themes such as race and culture, migrant literature, and postcolonial studies. In addition, she is involved in various research initiatives aimed at improving understanding of social and cultural dynamics in Indonesia and beyond. Bidang keahlian Dr. Saraswati adalah kajian sastra dan budaya. Penelitian Dr. Saraswati berfokus pada tema-tema seperti ras dan budaya, sastra migran, dan studi pascakolonial. Selain itu, beliau terlibat dalam berbagai inisiatif penelitian yang bertujuan untuk meningkatkan pemahaman tentang dinamika sosial dan budaya di Indonesia dan sekitarnya.

Journal Article 1. Saraswati, A “Losing Time, Making Do: Indonesian Early-Career Women Scholars’s Temporalities in Neoliberalising Higher Education” accepted (minor revision) with Asia Studies Review, special edition with Eds. Annisa Beta, Inaya Rakhmani. 2. Saraswati, A. “Madness along the Road: Analysing Etik Juwita’s “Maybe Not Yem,” a Migrant Worker’s Story of Returning Home,” Mobility Humanities Vol. 4 No. 1, January 2025 [link to article in English] 3. Saraswati, A. “Understanding migration in a globalized era: How postcolonialism views diaspora,” Satwika Journal, Vol. 5 No. 2 (2021): October. [link to article in English] 4. Saraswati, A. The Urban-rural Dichotomy in the Indonesian Documentaries Nona Nyonya? and Untuk apa? Wacana Academic Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1 (April 2012): 17-36, Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia. [link to article in English] 5. Saraswati, A. Women Imprisonment in an Urban Environment in Lost in Translation (2003) and The Good Girl (2002). Wacana Academic Journal, Social Urban Environment, 04/2009, of Humanities, University of Indonesia. [link to abstract in Indonesia] Book Chapter 1. Saraswati, A. The Fraught Relations: Indonesian Muslim Fashion and the New York Catwalk. Arnez, Monika & Budianta, Melani (Eds.) Gender, Sexuality, and Islam in Indonesia: Global-Local Interplays, (Springer, 2024) 2. Saraswati, A. Rumah dan Ruang dalam Interaksi Buruh Migran Indonesia dengan Sastra. (Home and Space in Indonesian Migrant Worker’s Engagement with Literature). Unjuk Rasa: Seni, (Jakarta: Kelola Foundation, 2018)

Articles in Media Outlets 1. Saraswati, A. “Citayam Fashion Week: The Class Divide and the City”, Indonesia at Melbourne, 08/2/2022. [link to article] 2. Saraswati, A. “Through the sieve of dry grass walls: Indonesia’s Sitor Situmorang”, Warscapes, 10/30/2021 [link to article] 3. Saraswati, A. “Identitas dan Permasalahannya” (Identity and Issues Surrounding the Concept), Anotasi, 2017. 4. Saraswati, A. “Petualangan Surealis Sepatu Merah” (The Surrealist Adventure of the Red Shoes), review of the novel Gentayangan (in English, The Wandering) by Intan Paramaditha, Kompas, a national newspaper in Indonesia, 12/30/2017.

Kajian transnasional dan poskolonial dalam sastra dan budaya, produksi pengetahuan, kajian ras dan gender; Transnational and postcolonial studies on literature and culture, knowledge production, race and gender