Intan Paramaditha is an Indonesian author and noted feminist academic. Her work has been described as focusing on "the intersection between gender and sexuality, culture and politics".

Literary works

Paramaditha's works have been described as "gothic feminist". In 2005, Intan Paramaditha's short-story collection ''Sihir Perempuan'' (''Black Magic Woman'') was shortlisted for the Khatulistiwa Literary Award. In 2010 Intan co-authored horror anthology ''Kumpulan Budak Setan'' (''The Devil’s Slaves Club'') with Eka Kurniawan and Ugoran Prasad, and in 2013 her short story ''Klub Solidaritas Suami Hilang (The Missing Husbands Solidarity Club)'' won the Kompas Best Short Story Award. Her debut novel, ''Gentayangan: Pilih Sendiri Petualangan Sepatu Merahmu (The Wandering: Choose Your Own Red-Shoes Adventure''), received a PEN Translates Award from

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in 2018, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant from

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, and the Tempo Best Literary Work for Prose Fiction in 2017; it was translated into English by Stephen J. Epstein and published by

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in February 2020. ''The Wandering'' was longlisted for the 2021

Stella Prize The Stella Prize is an Australian annual literary award established in 2013 for writing by Australian women in all genres, worth $50,000. It was originally proposed by Australian women writers and publishers in 2011, modelled on the UK's Bailey ...

. Her short story anthology, ''Apple and Knife'', contains short stories from earlier collections, and was published in English in 2018. Paramaditha's essay, "On the Complicated Questions Around Writing About Travel," was selected for The Best American Travel Writing 2021.

Academic career and research

Paramaditha holds a PhD in cinema studies from

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. She is now based in

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, and teaches Media and Film Studies at

Macquarie University Macquarie University ( ) is a Public university, public research university in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the Sydney metropolitan area. ...

. She previously taught at

Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York, United States. Founded as a Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in 1926, Sarah Lawrence College has been coeducational ...

and the

University of Indonesia The University of Indonesia (UI; ) is a public university in Depok, West Java and Salemba, Jakarta, Indonesia. It is one of the oldest tertiary-level educational institutions in Indonesia (known as the Dutch East Indies when UI was established) ...

. Paramaditha's research and teaching interests "include feminism, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism, postcolonial studies, and global film, media, and activism". Her academic articles have been published in journals such as ''

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,'' ''

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'','' Asian Cinema'', ''

Visual Anthropology Visual anthropology is a subfield of social anthropology that is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnography, ethnographic photography, film and, since the mid-1990s, new media. More recently it has been used by historians ...

'', ''

Film Quarterly ''Film Quarterly'' (FQ), published by University of California Press, is a journal devoted to the study of film, television, and visual media. When FQ was launched in 1945 (then called ''Hollywood Quarterly''), it was considered "the first serious ...

'', ''

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'', and ''Social Identities''.

Talks

Intan Paramaditha has spoken at literary events/festivals such as Broadside Feminist Ideas Festival 2019, the Emerging Writer's Festival 2019, the Jakarta International Literary Festival 2019, the London Book Fair 2019, the Singapore Writer's Festival 2018, the Hong Kong International Writer's Festival 2018, the Europalia Arts Festival 2017, the Frankfurt Book Fair 2015 and the Kraków Conrad Festival 2023.

References

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