Viola Lasmana
Columbia University
Viola Lasmana is a Lecturer for the Department of English and Comparative Literature, and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. Dr. Lasmana works at the intersections of transpacific studies and digital media, with an emphasis on literature, film, and media arts. She is currently completing a book, Shadow Imaginations: Transpacific Approaches to Post-1965 Indonesian Archives, on the reconstitution of Indonesia’s decimated cultural archive. Her work has appeared in Film Quarterly, The Cine-Files, Visual Anthropology, make/shift: feminisms in motion, Computers and Composition, and Interdisciplinary Humanities.
Dr. Lasmana received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Southern California, with a certificate in Digital Media and Culture from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. She has previously held the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Digital Humanities and served as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
