Viola Lasmana
Her research interests include American and Indonesian literatures, Southeast Asian American Studies, digital humanities, feminist media, theories of the archive, digital pedagogies, and remix culture. Her dissertation analyzes post-1965, post-genocide cultural productions and emphasizes how Indonesia's history and US imperialism across the Pacific are critically intertwined. Focusing on works that mobilize poetic resistance and form alternative archives beyond what has been established by the state, the dissertation gestures towards a future of possibilities for transformation, social recovery, and community collaborations.
Viola’s work can be found in Visual Anthropology, make/shift: feminisms in motion, Computers and Composition Online, and Interdisciplinary Humanities, and her video "Beyond Ruins: A Video Remix in the Contrapuntal" premiered at the TransformDH showcase as part of the first Transformative Digital Humanities Conference, held at the University of Maryland in October 2015. She was a 2013-2014 USC Transpacific Studies Graduate Fellow and a long-time HASTAC Scholar, and is currently one of Fembot Collective’s International Consultants on the Fembot Advisory Board (FAB).
Viola can be contacted at lasmana@usc.edu.