Rate My Professor Intan Paramaditha

Intan Paramaditha serves as Senior Lecturer in Media and Film Studies within the School of Communication, Society and Culture, Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University in Sydney. She obtained her PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University in 2014, an MA in English from the University of California, San Diego, and a BA in English from the University of Indonesia. Prior to joining Macquarie University in 2016, she taught at the University of Indonesia and Sarah Lawrence College. Her academic, fiction, and activist works explore questions of travel, (im)mobility, power relations, and anti-colonial feminist knowledge production.

Paramaditha's research specializations include global media and cinema, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism, postcolonial studies, and decolonial/transnational/intersectional feminisms. She has published scholarly articles in journals such as Film Quarterly ('Tracing Frictions in The Act of Killing', 2013), Feminist Review ('Radicalising “Learning from Other Resisters” in Decolonial Feminism', 2022), Visual Anthropology ('Q! Film Festival as Cultural Activism: Strategic Cinephilia and the Expansion of a Queer Counterpublic', 2018), Asian Cinema ('Contesting Indonesian Nationalism and Masculinity in Cinema', 2007), and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies ('City and Desire in Indonesian Cinema', 2011). Key works include her PhD dissertation 'The Wild Child's Desire: Cinema, Sexual Politics, and the Experimental Nation in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia' (2014), co-edited 'The Routledge Companion to Asian Cinemas' (2024), and edited 'Deviant Disciples: Indonesian Women Poets' (2020). She has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Social Science Research Council, Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies, American Association of University Women, and the NYU Jay Leyda Award for Academic Excellence, and was a visiting scholar at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies. Paramaditha co-founded the feminist collective Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan and has given invited talks at Harvard University, Yale University, University of Melbourne, Sydney Writers’ Festival, and Singapore Writers Festival, contributing to discourses on Indonesian film activism, sexual politics, and queer counterpublics.