Education
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1986.
Selected Bibliography
Situated Testimonies: Dread and Enchantment in an Indonesian Literary Archive. University of Hawai'i Press, 2013.
"Passionate Attachments to Area Studies and Asian American Studies: Subjectivity and Diaspora in the Transpacific." Written with Francisco Benitez for Janet Hoskins and Viet Nguyen (Eds.), Transpacific Studies: Interventions and Intersections (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2013).
"The Afterwardsness of Indonesian Studies," in Indonesian Studies 2012 edited by Eric Tagliacozzo (Ithaca: SEAP/Cornell University Press, 2012).
"Modernity and Decadence in Fin-de-Siècle Fiction of the Dutch Empire," Indonesia Journal 90 (Fall 2010).
"Visual Arts, Literature and Performance," in Interweaving Cultures: Islam in Southeast Asia, edited by Elizabeth A. Cole et al. (New York: The Asia Society, 2007)
“Reading Ayu Utami: Notes for a Study of Trauma and the Archive in Indonesia,” Indonesia 83 (2007): 17-40.
Ed. Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007.
“Knowledges that Travel in Southeast Asian Area Studies,” with Carlo Bonura, in Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects, 2007.
“Postcolonial Identities, Feminist Criticism, and Southeast Asian Studies,” in Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects, 2007.
“Visual Arts, Literatures, and Performance,” essay and visuals for Islam in Southeast AsiaTextbook, Asia Society/NEH, 2006.
“Declaration of Universal Humanity,” Liberal Islam Network, translated by Laurie J. Sears, positions 13: I (2005): 1-4.
“The Persistence of Evil and the Impossibility of Truth in Goenawan Mohamad’s Kali” in Beginning to Remember: The Past in the Indonesian Present, ed., Mary Zurbuchen. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2005.
"Islamic Mysticism in Javanese Ramayana Stories," in Mandakranta
Bose, ed. Ramayana Stories in Performance in South and Southeast Asia.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
"CA Comment on Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Culture,"
Current Anthropology 43/1 [February 2002]: 146-47.
"Intellectuals, Theosophy, and Failed Narratives of the Nation in
Late Colonial Java," in The Post- Colonial Reader, ed. Henry
Schwarz. London: Basil Blackwell, 2000.
Shadows of Empire: Colonial Discourse and Javanese Tales. Durham:
Duke University Press, 1996. Winner of Harry Benda Book Award 1999. Runner-up
for Barnard Hewitt Award of the American Society for Theatre Research
1997.
[second printing December 1999]
Editor, Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia. Durham: Duke University
Press, 1996.
"Fragile Identities: Deconstructing Women and Indonesia," in
Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia, ed. Laurie J. Sears.
"Rethinking Indian Influence in Javanese Shadow Theatre Traditions,"
Comparative Drama 28/1 (Spring 1994).
Editor, Autonomous Histories, Particular Truths: Essays in Honor of
John R. W. Small. Madison: Wisconsin Monographs on Southeast Asia,
1993.
"The Contingency of Autonomous History," in Autonomous Histories,
Particular Truths, ed. Laurie J. Sears.
Boundaries of the Text: Epic Performances in South and Southeast Asia,
eds. Joyce B. Flueckiger and Laurie J. Sears. Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan South and Southeast Asian Studies Monographs, 1991.
"Authoritative Voices and the Vietnam Experience," Journal
of Urban and Cultural Studies, II/1 (1991), 115-118.
"Introduction," by Laurie J. Sears & Joyce B. Flueckiger.
In Boundaries of the Text: Epic Performances in South and Southeast
Asia, eds. J. B. Flueckiger and L. J. Sears, 1991.
"Javanese Mahabharata Stories: From Oral Tradition to Written Text,"
in Boundaries of the Text: Epic Performances in South and Southeast
Asia, eds. J. B. Flueckiger and L. J. Sears, 1991.
"Aesthetic Displacement in Javanese Theatre: Three Contemporary
Performance Styles," (Fall 1989), The Drama Review.
"Epic Voyages: The Transmission of the Epics from India to Java,"
in Aesthetic Tradition and Cultural Transmission in Java and Bali,
1-30.
BOMB: Indonesian Short Stories by Putu Wijaya, eds. Ellen Rafferty
& Laurie J. Sears. Madison: University of Wisconsin Southeast Asia
Monographs, 1988.
Aesthetic Tradition and Cultural Transition In Java and Bali,
eds. Stephanie Morgan & Laurie J. Sears. Madison: University of Wisconsin
Southeast Asia Monographs, 1984.
Work in Progress
New Collaborative Book Project
The Politics of Storytelling in Island Imperial Formations with Francisco Benitez, Enrique Bonus, and Ileana Rodriguez-Silva
New Book Project
Essays in Southeast Asian History, Aesthetics, and Postcolonial Theory
