About
Ari J. Adipurwawidjana teaches and carries out studies on literatures in English, critical theory, and theater at Universitas Padjadjaran (Unpad). He had also taught academic writing, English literature, and American literature at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette as an adjunct instructor between 2007 and 2009. He has been formally trained in the field of literature at the University of Kentucky, Lexington; the University of Louisiana at Lafayette; and at Universitas Padjadjaran up to the doctoral level. He is interested in and focuses his academic attention on turn-of-the-century texts and their distribution through the publishing industry in the postcolonial framework, looking at how text production, technology, and global economy intertwine. Such studies direct his attention to raced, gendered, and classed bodies which has also caused his interest in the idea of practice-as-research in the context of theater and performance as alternative literacy and as a means to incite social participation. At present, he
is exploring the potentials of literature, theater, visual art, and digital technology in opening up new avenues for learning, writing (creative and academic), and social change and participation. In addition to academic pieces, his ideas, and work also take the form of performances and visual art. He is a member of the Asian Shakespeare Association (ASA) and the International Shakespeare Association (ISA), as well as the Postcolonial Studies Association (PSA). At present, he also serves as the Chair of the Literature Committee in the Bandung City Arts Council (DKKB), the Chair of the Bandung Chapter of the Indonesian Literary Scholars Association (HISKI), Chair of the Unpad English Studies Program, and a member of the Unpad Prevention and Handling of Sexual Violence Task Force.
Publications
Book
2019, Meneroka Wacana Poskolonial, Bandung: Raness Media Rancage
Articles and Book Chapters
2022, with Mega Subekti and Aquarini Priyatna. “Queering gender in Indonesian Instagram: Case Study of Mimi Peri.” Journal of Asian Pacific Communication. <http://doi.org/10.1075/japc.00096.sub>
2022, “Genius, Genetika, dan Kamar 3×4 m.” Tengara.id: Situs Kritik Sastra. Edisi 4. Komite Sastra Dewan Kesenian Jakarta<https://tengara.id>
2021: “Advokasi dan Proyeksi: Saijah dalam Max Havelaar.” In Manis tapi Tragis: Kisah Saidjah dan Adinda dalam Max Havelaar (Ed. Endin Saparudin). Yogyakarta: Cantrik Pustaka.
2020: “Locating the Colonial in the Regulated Urban Space of Sherlock Holmes’s London.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies Vol. 22, No. 4, 434-453
2020: with Lestari Manggong and Mega Subekti, “Pengenalan Teater sebagai Literasi terhadap Alam bagi Warga Ponggok (Klaten).” Jati Emas: Jurnal Aplikasi Teknik dan Pengabdian Masyarakat Vol. 4, No. 2, 149-156.
2020: “Inventing Narratives, Inventorying Resources: Colonial Economic Exploitation in Conrad’s Malay Fiction,” Journal of Language and Literature Vol. 20, No. 1, 140-149
2020: “Transmedia dan Pos-Oralitas” in Alih Wahana (Ed. Abdul Hamid). Bandung: Unpad Press
2019: “Sastra Populer, Keberagaman, dan Modernitas di Hindia Belanda pada Awal Abad Ke-20” in Gender, Identitas, dan Kita (Ed. Teddi Muhtadin). Bandung: Unpad Press.
2019: “Memfilmkan Robinson Crusoe, Memerdekakan Friday” in Sastra Bandingan: Dari Novel ke Film, dari Film ke Novel (Ed. Lina Meilinawati Rahayu), Bandung: Unpad Press
2019: Introduction. Laki-laki Bernama Klaus Klump by Gonçalo M. Tavares (Trans. Danny Susanto). Jakarta: Pustaka Obor Indonesia.
2019: “Orientalisme dalam Transendentalisme: Penerjemahan Bahasa Esoterik Puisi Sufi dan Mistisisme Hindu dalam Karya-karya Ralph Waldo Emerson” in Romantisisme dalam Kesusastraan Dunia (Ed. Tisna Prabasmoro). Bandung: Unpad Press
2018: “Deflasi Semantis dalam Pertukaran antara Bahasa Inggris dan Bahasa Indonesia.” Metahumaniora Vol. 9, No. 1
2018: Introduction. Larik-larik dari Jurus Dasar Silat Cimande. Yana Risdiana. Bandung: Inboeki.
2018: “Problem Klaim Genre Puisi Esai” in Skandal Sastra Undercover (Ed. Bundo Free Hearty). Yogyakarta: Kalam
2018: “Di Mana Tubuh Berakhir?: Performa Badani, Lingkungan, dan Teknologi.” In Tubuh dan Ideologi. Aquarini Priyatna dan Lestari Manggong (Eds.). Yogyakarta: Arti Bumi Intaran, pp. 35-56.
2018: with Erisha Bella Christy, “Strategi Menghindari Bahasa dalam Karya-karya Dr. Seuss dan Maurice Sendak.” In Sastra Anak dan Kebudayaan Kontemporer, Lina Meilinawati Rahayu and Mega Subekti (Eds.). Yogyakarta: Arti Bumi Intaran, 1-16.
2018: “Kosmopolitanisme dalam Majalah Penghiboer di Awal Abad Ke-20.” Metahumaniora Vol. 8 No.1, pp.136-150.
2017: “Menuliskan Identitas Hibrid dalam Masyarakat (Pos-)Kolonial.” In Multikulturalisme dan Etnisitas. Indra Sarathan and Mega Subekti (Eds.). Medan: Obelia.
2017: “Menaklukan Konteks Baru dengan Teks Lama dalam The Conquest of Mexico.” Metahumaniora Vol. 7 No. 3.
2017: “Perpindahan dan Perubahan: Transportasi dalam Struktur Naratif Riwayat Perjalanan ke Amerika di Era Viktorian.” Metahumaniora Vol. 7 No. 1
2015: Introduction, Penangkar Bekisar: Collection of Poems by Kiki Sulistyo, Bandung: Nuansa Cendikia 2014: “Masuknya Kata-kata Melayu ke dalam Khazanah Bahasa Inggris, Ed. Irfan Hidayatullah. Bandung: Quacana)
2013: “Kesastraan Indonesia di Persimpangan, Kajian Poskolonial di Penyimpangan: Usulan untuk Sekularisasi Kajian Sastra di Indonesia” (Al-Tsaqafa Vol. 2 No. 2)
2007, “‘Something More Congruous to His Wishes:’ The Structure and Prestructure of Beckford’s Vathek” (Jurnal Sastra Inggris, June 2007)
2005, bersama Lestari Manggong dan Lien Amalia, “Ambivalensi Naratif dan Transisi Sosial: Lady Chatterley’s Lover dan The Satanic Verses,” Jurnal Kebudayaan Kalam 22
2004, “Menegosiasikan Tubuh dalam Produksi Sastra dan Kesadaran Kelas Menengah” (dalam Seks Teks Konteks: Tubuh dan Seksualitas dalam Wacana Sastra Lokal dan Global diterbitkan Program Studi Sastra Inggris dan Kelompok Belajar Nalar, Bandung, April 2004)
2002, “Naipaul dan Jarak Tekstual: Six Degrees of Naipaul’s Separation from Our Material Reality,” Jurnal Kebudayaan Kalam 20
1999, “Their Nusantara in Our British Studies: The Problematic Position of British Studies in the Indonesian Academy,” British Studies Now Anthology 2, London, 1999
1999, “Pola Naratif dalam Wacana Kolonial dan Pascakolonial,” Jurnal Kebudayaan Kalam 14)
