Professor of literary and cultural studies at the Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia. Her research and essays have been published in several books and journals. She also edited two anthologies of Indonesian literature, namely, ‘An Ocean of Becoming, Literature from the Indonesian Archipelago’ editor, with Manneke Budiman, (Jakarta, Lontar Foundation, 2017), and ‘Indonesian Women Writers’, editor, with Yvonne Michalik, (Berlin: Regiospectra Verlag, 2015).