Elisabeth Wulandari

Biography

I was raised in Gunungkidul, a karst plateau in the Province of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. I moved to the city of Yogyakarta to study at Gadjah Mada University. Following a four-year stint as an English teacher, tutor, translator, and secretary, I received a Fulbright scholarship to attend Cornell University in Ithaca, New York where I completed my Master of Arts in Comparative Literature. After Cornell, I taught at Sanata Dharma University in Indonesia for four years before being awarded a second Fulbright scholarship to pursue my doctorate degree in Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I speak Javanese (my mother tongue) and Indonesian (my national language), and have studied Hindi and Sanskrit for my research.

Education Background

Comparative Literature Ph.D. - 2016 University of Wisconsin-Madison
Comparative Literature M.A - 2008 University of Wisconsin-Madison
Comparative Literature M.A. - 2003 Cornell University
English (Sarjana Sastra) B.A - 1997 Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia)

Courses Taught

• UNIV190: The Clarkson Seminar (theme: Rebels and Heroes)
• LIT227: Tales from the Tropics (Short Stories from Southeast Asia)
• LIT248: Nobel Prize Winners in Literature
• LIT255: Close Encounters of the X Kinds (plays about encounters with the unknown of the foreign)
• LIT262 Women Acting Out (plays by women playwrights from different countries)
• LIT270: Comics of Conscience (comics and graphic novels about important social or political issues)
• LIT275: Demons and Witches among Us (Horror Fiction from Asia)

Awards

• Vilas Research Travel Award for dissertation research, UW-Madison (2012)
• Center for Southeast Asian Studies Field Research Award, for fieldwork in Indonesia, UW-Madison (2012)
• Campus-wide Teaching Assistant Award (Exceptional Service Award), UW-Madison (2010), http://www.news.wisc.edu/17680

Grants

Social Science Research Council (SSRC) - Dissertation Proposal Development Program (DPDF), 2011

Fulbright Doctoral Degree Scholarship, 2006-2011

Fulbright Master's Degree Scholarship, 2000-2002

Publications

Translated Book 
Light from the Heart. English translation of Indonesian novel Cahaya di Penjuru Hati by Alberthiene Endah. Andi Publisher: Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2022. https://books.google.com/books/about/LIGHT_FROM_THE_HEART.html?id=43RXEAAAQBAJ

Digital Textbook
Indonesian Culture APP (Intensive Cultural Immersion Online Program). Co-author: Emily Jorgenson. The Regional Flagship Language Initiative’s Culture Initiative (RFLI-CI), University of Wisconsin-Madison. Landing page: https://thelanguageflagship.tech/fci-indonesian/. Cultural scenarios available at: https://lftic.lll.hawaii.edu/culture/

Refereed Articles
“Indonesian Nationalism in Three Acts: The Intertwined Narratives of National Identity and the Subaltern Woman in Three Iconic Indonesian Novels.” International Journal of Diaspora & Cultural Criticism, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Feb 2023).
“Stories from the South: Literary Depictions of Indonesians in Australia.” Antipodes, Vol 33 No. 2 (Dec 2019): 315-331. Available at https://muse.jhu.edu/article/780991 
“Introduction—(Be)Longing, Exile, and the In-Between World: Displacement Figures in Indonesian Diaspora.” International Journal of Diaspora & Cultural Criticism, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jan 2018).

Book Chapters
“Translator’s Introduction.” Light from the Heart. English translation of Indonesian novel Cahaya di Penjuru Hati by Albethiene Endah. Andi Publisher: Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2022. Available at https://books.google.com/books/about/LIGHT_FROM_THE_HEART.html?id=43RXEAAAQBAJ 
“Marvelous Realism or Critical Realism? Iwan Simatupang’s Ziarah and the Question Concerning the Perception of Reality.” Language, Literature, Society. Ed. Harris Setiajid. Yogyakarta: Sanata Dharma University Press, 2016.

Film Subtitles
Subtitler for Short Film, WIM. Translated the Indonesian film dialogue into English subtitles.  Dir. Henricus Pria. Produced by Studio Batu and LaBide Films. Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2022. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKP01Nnl7P8

Book Reviews
Review of Reading Malaysian Literature in English: Ethnicity, Gender, Diaspora, and Nationalism, edited by Mohammad A. Quayum. Southeast Asian Review of English, Vol. 59. 1 (Jul 2022), pp. 205-207, https://sare.um.edu.my/index.php/SARE/article/view/37981/14813  
Review of Staging Asia, The Dutch East India Company and the Amsterdam Theatre, c. 1650-1780, by Manjusha Kuruppath. International Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 16.1 (Jan 2019), pp. 55-57, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479591418000220.