Professor Virginia Hooker

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  CILIS Senior Associate

VIRGINIA HOOKER FAHA is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University and
Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Change, College of Asia and the Pacific. She
serves on the boards of international journals and is an International Editor, Encyclopedia of
Women & Islamic Cultures, Brill. Between 2002-1010 she was a member of the Board of the
Australia Indonesia Institute, DFAT. Her publications include Writing a New Society: Social
Change through the Novel in Malay, Allen & Unwin/University of Hawaii Press/KITLV,
Leiden, 2000; A Short History of Malaysia: Linking East and West, Allen & Unwin, 2003;
Voices of Islam in Southeast Asia (edited with Greg Fealy) Institute of Southeast Asian
Studies, Singapore, 2006, 2007; and most recently ‘When Laws Are Not Enough: Ethics,
Aesthetics, and Intra-Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Indonesia,’ in Pluralism,
Transnationalism and Culture in Asian Law: A Book in Honour of M.B. Hooker, ed. Gary F.
Bell, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 2017. She now researches Islam-themed
art in Southeast Asia and among her recent publications are: ‘Reflections of the Soul,’ Inside
Indonesia 112:Apr-Jun 2013,http://www.insideindonesia.org/feature-editions/reflections-of-
the-soul?utm_source; ‘Mindful of Allah: Islam and the visual arts in Indonesia and Malaysia’,
Artlink, Vol. 33 (1) March 2013, and ‘When Laws are not Enough: Ethics, Aesthetics, and
Intra-Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Indonesia’, in Pluralism, Transnationalism and
Culture in Asian Law (ed. G. Bell), 2017.