Ian Campbell

Australia

Ian Campbell is an alumnus of the University of Sydney in the field of Indonesian Studies. In 1988 he completed an MA research thesis on family law and inheritance law in West Java. More recently (2007) he was awarded an M Phil with a thesis on contemporary Indonesian language poetry from West Java - http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/1219. He also writes poetry in Indonesian with publications in the Indonesian mass media in Jakarta and Bandung, West Java, in 2002-2005. In 2004 and 2007 he undertook a series of literary visits to Indonesia with readings of his Indonesian language poetry in West Java and Bali (2004) and West Java (2007) in conjunction with local literary and other associations. His papers are held at the National Library of Australia, Canberra -- see www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/2005/oct05/article5.html. Other interests, and associated academic papers, cover fields as diverse as European Inter-War literature, Latin American literature and Australian Natural and Environmental History.