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Associate Professor Helen Creese

Honorary Assoc Research Professor

School of Languages and Cultures
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
h.creese@uq.edu.au

Overview

Associate Professor Helen Creese’s research interests include Balinese textual and literary traditions, Balinese history and historiography and gender. Her research spans historical and contemporary periods. It draws extensively on indigenous textual traditions written in Indonesian, Balinese, Old Javanese as well as colonial sources in Dutch and French. Her publications include translations of both classical and modern texts.

She is the author of Bali in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Ethnographic Accounts of Pierre Dubois (2016); Women of the Kakawin World: Marriage and Sexuality in the Indic Courts of Java and Bali (2004); Guide and Index to the Hooykaas-Ketut Sangka Balinese Manuscript Collection in the Australian National University Library (2004); and Parthayana: The Journeying of Partha. An Eighteenth-Century Balinese Kakawin (1998). She has co-edited 'The Stigmatisation of Widows and Divorcees (janda) in Indonesian Society,' Special Issue of Indonesia and the Malay World (with Lyn Parker, 2016); From Langka Eastwards: The Ramayana in the Literature and Visual Arts of Indonesia (with Andrea Acri and Arlo Griffiths, 2011); 'Gender, Text, Performance and Agency in Asian Cultural Contexts,' Special Issue of Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific (with Rosie Roberts, 2008); Seabad Puputan Bali: Perspektif Belanda dan Bali (with Henk Schulte Nordholt and Darma Putra 2006); and 'Old Javanese Texts and Culture,' Special Issue of Bijdragen tot de Taal , Land- en Volkenkunde (with Willem Van der Molen, 2001).

Her current research projects include an investigation into textual traditions, identity and cultural production in contemporary Bali, a literary history of Bali, and a number of projects on precolonial Balinese history.

She was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Humanities of Australia in 2007. She serves on an number of editorial advisory boards including the Southeast Asian Publications Series of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Asian Studies Review, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific and Indonesia and the Malay World.

Research Interests

  • Identity and media in Bali
  • Balinese history
  • Balinese and Javanese literature
  • Gender in Indonesia

Qualifications

  • Fellow of Australian Academy of the Humanities
  • Graduate Diploma Education, CCAE
  • PhD, Australian National University
  • Bachelor of Asian Studies (Honours), Australian National University

Publications

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Publications

Featured Publications

Book

Book Chapter

  • The death of Salya: Balinese textual and iconographic representations of the Kakawin Bharatayuddha

    Creese, Helen (2018). The death of Salya: Balinese textual and iconographic representations of the Kakawin Bharatayuddha. In Traces of the Ramayana and Mahabharata in Javanese and Malay Literature (pp. 137-179) Singapore: ISEAS -Yusof Ishak Institute.

  • Im-Materiality: where have all the aksara gone?

    Creese, Helen (2016). Im-Materiality: where have all the aksara gone?. In Richard Fox and Annette Hornbacher (Ed.), The materiality and efficacy of Balinese letters: situating scriptural practices (pp. 166-190) Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004326828_008

  • Ramayana traditions in Bali

    Creese, Helen (2011). Ramayana traditions in Bali. In Andrea Acri, Helen Creese and Arlo Griffiths (Ed.), From Laṅkā eastwards: The Rāmāyaṇa in the Literature and Visual Arts of Indonesia (pp. 93-118) Leiden, Netherlands: KITLV Press.

  • Singing the text: On-air textual interpretation in Bali

    Creese, H. (2009). Singing the text: On-air textual interpretation in Bali. In Putten, J. van der and Kilcline Cody, M. (Ed.), Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World (pp. 210-226) Singapore: NUS Press.

  • Badad Arya Tabanan

    Creese, Helen (2006). Badad Arya Tabanan. In Helen Creese, Darma Putra and Henk Schulte Nordholt (Ed.), Seabad puputan Badung: Perspektif Belanda dan Bali (pp. 187-195) Denpasar, Bali: KITLV Jakarta, Universitas Udayana, Pustaka Larasan.

  • Buku catatan harian perang Badung 1906

    Creese, H. M. (2006). Buku catatan harian perang Badung 1906. In H. Creese, D. Putra and H. Schulte Nordholt (Ed.), Seabad Puputan Badung: Perspektif Belanda dan Bali (pp. 111-124) Denpasar, Bali: KITLV Jakarta, Universitas Udayana, Pustaka Larasan.

  • Cerita seorang wanita hamil muda tentang Puputan Badung

    Creese, H. M. (2006). Cerita seorang wanita hamil muda tentang Puputan Badung. In H. Creese, D. Putra and H. Schulte Nordholt (Ed.), Seabad Puputan Badung: Perspektif Belanda dan Bali (pp. 165-186) Denpasar, Bali: KITLV Jakarta, Universitas Udayana, Pustaka Larasan.

  • Kidung (Geguritan) Bhuwanawinasa

    Creese, H M (2006). Kidung (Geguritan) Bhuwanawinasa. In H. Creese, D. Putra and H. Schulte Nordholt (Ed.), Seabad Puputan Badung: Perspektif Belanda dan Bali (pp. 125-164) Denpasar, Bali: KITLV Jakarta, Universitas Udayana, Pustaka Larasan.

  • Puputan Badung: Perspektif Belanda dan Bal) should read: Seabad Puputan Badung: Perspektif Belanda dan Bali

    Creese, Helen (2006). Puputan Badung: Perspektif Belanda dan Bal) should read: Seabad Puputan Badung: Perspektif Belanda dan Bali. In Puputan Badung: Perspektif Belanda dan Bal (pp. 125-164) Denpasar, Bali: KITLV Jakarta, Universitas Udayana, Pustaka Larasan.

  • Satu Perang, Dua Perspektif

    Creese, H. M., Putra, D. and Schulte Nordholt, H. (2006). Satu Perang, Dua Perspektif. In H. Creese, D. Putra and H. Schulte Nordholt (Ed.), Seabad Pupatan Badung: Perspectif Belanda dan Bali (pp. xi-xxii) Denpasar, Bali: KITLV Jakarta, Universitas Udayana, Pustaka Larasan.

  • In search of Majapahit: The transformation of Balinese identities

    Creese, H. M. (2000). In search of Majapahit: The transformation of Balinese identities. In A. Vickers, I. N. Putra and M. Forde (Ed.), To Change Bali: Essays in Honour of I Gusti Ngurah Bagus (pp. 15-46) Wollongong: Bali Post, Uni. Wollongong.

  • New kingdoms, old concerns: Balinese identities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

    Creese, Helen (1997). New kingdoms, old concerns: Balinese identities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In Anthony Reid (Ed.), The last stand of Asian autonomies: responses to modernity in the diverse states of Southeast Asia and Korea, 1750–1900 (pp. 345-366) London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan . doi:10.1007/978-1-349-25760-7_14

Journal Article

Conference Publication

  • Three transitional texts: Turn of the century Balinese views of the world

    Creese, H. M. (2004). Three transitional texts: Turn of the century Balinese views of the world. In: R. Cribb, Asia Examined: Proceedings of the 15th Biennial Conference of the ASAA, 2004. 15th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA), Canberra, Australia, (1-16). 29 June-2 July 2004.

  • Kakawin Sebagai Sumber Sejarah Sosial Nusantara

    Creese, Helen (2003). Kakawin Sebagai Sumber Sejarah Sosial Nusantara. In: Simposium Internasional Pernaskahan Nusantara Denpasar. Simposium Internasional Pernaskahan Nusantara Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, (43-63). 27-29 July, 2003.

  • Women, tradition and reformation in Bali

    Creese, H. M. (2002). Women, tradition and reformation in Bali. In: Gao, M., Hatley, B., Allen , P. and et al, Asian Studies Conference 2002: Program and Abstract Book. After Sovereignty: Nation and Place (Asian Studies Association of Australia), Hobart, (109-109). 30th June - 3rd July 2002.

  • Inside the 'Inner Court' : The world of women in Balinese Kidung poetry

    Creese, H. M. (2000). Inside the 'Inner Court' : The world of women in Balinese Kidung poetry. In: B. Andaya, Other Pasts: Women, Gender and History. Engendering Early Modern Southeast Asian History, University of Hawaii, (125-146). 20-22 March, 1998.

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PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Theory and Practice of Yoga in the Mahabharata

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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