Welcome, Dr. Viola Lasmana!

WELCOME, DR. VIOLA LASMANA!

Dr. Viola Lasmana teaches and writes about global digital humanities, transnational feminisms, transpacific studies, Asian & Asian American studies, Indonesia and Southeast Asia, film, literature, and media activism. Her work has been published in Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities, Film Quarterly, make/shift: feminisms in motion, The Cine-Files, Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, Visual Anthropology, Computers and Composition, and Interdisciplinary Humanities. She is currently completing her book project, Shadow Imaginations: Post-1965 Transnational Indonesian Feminist Archives.

Dr. Lasmana received her PhD in English from the University of Southern California with a certificate in Digital Media and Culture from the USC School of Cinematic Arts’ Media Arts + Practice Division, and the Andrew W. Mellon PhD Fellowship in Digital Humanities. Before doctoral work, she did her undergraduate studies at Foothill Community College and the University of San Francisco, and completed her MA at San Francisco State University.

Prior to joining Cal State Long Beach, Dr. Lasmana taught at Rutgers University-New Brunswick as an ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) Emerging Voices Fellow and a South & Southeast Asian Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of American Studies and the Global Asias Initiative. She was also an NYU A/P/A (Asian/Pacific/American) Institute Visiting Scholar. Dr. Lasmana has also taught in the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University, the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, and Media Arts & Culture department at Occidental College.

Dr. Lasmana is thrilled to begin her journey in CWL. She believes in the classroom as a transformative space of possibilities and is excited to build community with students, faculty, and staff at the Beach.