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Dr Helen Creese

Honorary Associate Professor
School of Languages and Cultures
h.creese@uq.edu.au

Publications

Books (7)
Book Chapters (13)
Journal Articles (29)
Conference Papers (4)

Books

Darma Putra, I Nyoman and Creese, Helen (2020). Kidung Interaktif: Tembang tradisional Bali di panggung elektronik. Denpasar, Bali: Udayana University Press.
Creese, Helen (2016). Bali in the early nineteenth century: the ethnographic accounts of Pierre Dubois. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004315839
Kapandyan, A. A. Sg Putri and Creese, Helen (2013). "A Puputan Tale: The Story of a Pregnant Woman" and "Cerita Seorang Wanita Hamil Muda tentang 'Puputan Badung'". Denpasar, Bali: Pustaka Larasan.
Creese, Helen and Bagus Putra Yadnya, Ida (Trans) (2012). Perempuan dalam dunia kakawin: perkawinan dan seksualitas di istana Indic Jawa dan Bali. Denpasar, Indonesia: Pustaka Larasan.
Creese, H. M. (2004). Women of the Kakawin World: marriage and sexuality in the Indic Courts of Java and Bali. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe. doi: 10.4324/9781315698083
Creese, Helen (2004). Balinese Manuscript Collection Index. Canberra: Australian National University.
Creese, Helen (1998). Pārthāyaṇa = The journeying of Pārtha : an eighteenth-century Balinese kakawin. Leiden, Netherlands: KITLV Press.

Book Chapters

Bronner, Yigal, Creese, Helen and Hunter, Thomas M. (2023). The Mirror of the practice: Indic models internalized in the Indonesian Archipelago. A Lasting Vision: Dandin’s Mirror in the World of Asian Letters. (pp. 412-465) New York, NY: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197642924.003.0009
Creese, Helen (2018). The death of Salya: Balinese textual and iconographic representations of the Kakawin Bharatayuddha. Traces of the Ramayana and Mahabharata in Javanese and Malay Literature. (pp. 137-179) edited by Ding Choo Ming and Willem van der Molen. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing.
Creese, Helen (2016). Im-Materiality: where have all the aksara gone?. The materiality and efficacy of Balinese letters: situating scriptural practices. (pp. 166-190) edited by Richard Fox and Annette Hornbacher. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004326828_008
Creese, Helen (2011). Ramayana traditions in Bali. From Laṅkā eastwards: The Rāmāyaṇa in the Literature and Visual Arts of Indonesia. (pp. 93-118) edited by Andrea Acri, Helen Creese and Arlo Griffiths. Leiden, Netherlands: KITLV Press. doi: 10.1163/9789004253766_006
Creese, H. (2009). Singing the text: On-air textual interpretation in Bali. Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World. (pp. 210-226) edited by Putten, J. van der and Kilcline Cody, M.. Singapore: NUS Press.
Creese, H. M. (2006). Cerita seorang wanita hamil muda tentang Puputan Badung. Seabad Puputan Badung: Perspektif Belanda dan Bali. (pp. 165-186) edited by H. Creese, D. Putra and H. Schulte Nordholt. Denpasar, Bali: KITLV Jakarta, Universitas Udayana, Pustaka Larasan.
Creese, H M (2006). Kidung (Geguritan) Bhuwanawinasa. Seabad Puputan Badung: Perspektif Belanda dan Bali. (pp. 125-164) edited by H. Creese, D. Putra and H. Schulte Nordholt. Denpasar, Bali: KITLV Jakarta, Universitas Udayana, Pustaka Larasan.
Creese, H. M. (2006). Buku catatan harian perang Badung 1906. Seabad Puputan Badung: Perspektif Belanda dan Bali. (pp. 111-124) edited by H. Creese, D. Putra and H. Schulte Nordholt. Denpasar, Bali: KITLV Jakarta, Universitas Udayana, Pustaka Larasan.
Creese, H. M., Putra, D. and Schulte Nordholt, H. (2006). Satu Perang, Dua Perspektif. Seabad Pupatan Badung: Perspectif Belanda dan Bali. (pp. xi-xxii) edited by H. Creese, D. Putra and H. Schulte Nordholt. Denpasar, Bali: KITLV Jakarta, Universitas Udayana, Pustaka Larasan.
Creese, Helen (2006). Puputan Badung: Perspektif Belanda dan Bal) should read: Seabad Puputan Badung: Perspektif Belanda dan Bali. Puputan Badung: Perspektif Belanda dan Bal. (pp. 125-164) Denpasar, Bali: KITLV Jakarta, Universitas Udayana, Pustaka Larasan.
Creese, Helen (2006). Badad Arya Tabanan. Seabad puputan Badung: Perspektif Belanda dan Bali. (pp. 187-195) edited by Helen Creese, Darma Putra and Henk Schulte Nordholt. Denpasar, Bali: KITLV Jakarta, Universitas Udayana, Pustaka Larasan.
Creese, H. M. (2000). In search of Majapahit: The transformation of Balinese identities. To Change Bali: Essays in Honour of I Gusti Ngurah Bagus. (pp. 15-46) edited by A. Vickers, I. N. Putra and M. Forde. Wollongong: Bali Post, Uni. Wollongong.
Creese, Helen (1997). New kingdoms, old concerns: Balinese identities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The last stand of Asian autonomies: responses to modernity in the diverse states of Southeast Asia and Korea, 1750–1900. (pp. 345-366) edited by Anthony Reid. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan . doi: 10.1007/978-1-349-25760-7_14

Journal Articles

Creese, Helen (2019). Acts of citizenship? rulers and ruled in traditional Bali. Citizenship Studies, 23 (3), 1-18. doi: 10.1080/13621025.2019.1603269
Bronner, Yigal and Creese, Helen (2019). Indic ornaments on Javanese shores: retooling Sanskrit figures in the old Javanese Rāmāyaṇa. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 139 (1), 41-66. doi: 10.7817/jameroriesoci.139.1.0041
Arps, Bernard , Creese, Helen, Cohen, Matthew Isaac and Foley, Kathy (2017). Debate: Tall tree, nest of the wind: The Javanese shadow-play Dewa Ruci performed by Ki Anom Soeroto: A study in performance philology. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia), 173 (1), 115-131. doi: 10.1163/22134379-17301007
Creese, Helen (2016). Buried treasure amidst grains of Balinese sand. Asian Currents
Putra, I. Nyoman Darma and Creese, Helen (2016). Negotiating cultural constraints: strategic decision-making by widows and divorcees (janda) in contemporary Bali. Indonesia and the Malay World, 44 (128), 104-122. doi: 10.1080/13639811.2015.1100869
Creese, Helen (2016). Bali in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Ethnographic Accounts of Pierre Dubois. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 305, 1-846.
Creese, Helen (2016). The legal status of widows and divorcees (janda) in colonial Bali. Indonesia and the Malay World, 44 (128), 84-103. doi: 10.1080/13639811.2015.1100862
Parker, Lyn and Creese, Helen (2016). INTRODUCTION The stigmatisation of widows and divorcees (janda) in Indonesian society. Indonesia and the Malay World, 44 (128), 1-6. doi: 10.1080/13639811.2015.1111647
Creese, Helen (2014). The Utsawa Dharma Gita competition: the contemporary evolution of Hindu textual singing in Indonesia. Journal of Hindu Studies, 7 (2), 296-322. doi: 10.1093/jhs/hiu026
Putra, I Nyoman Darma and Creese, Helen (2012). More than just "Numpang Nampang": women's participation in interactive textual singing on Balinese radio and television. Indonesia and the Malay World, 40 (118), 272-297. doi: 10.1080/13639811.2012.725559
Creese, Helen M. (2009). Judicial processes and legal authority in pre-colonial Bali. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-en Volkenkunde, 165 (4), 515-550. doi: 10.1163/22134379-90003631
Creese, Helen M. (2009). Old Javanese legal traditions in pre-colonial Bali. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 165 (2/3), 241-290. doi: 10.1163/22134379-90003636
Roberts, R. and Creese, H. (2008). Gender, text, performance and agency in Asian cultural contexts. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, 16, 1-9.
Creese, H. (2008). The regulation of marriage and sexuality in precolonial Balinese law codes. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, 16, 1-17.
Creese, H. M. (2007). Curious modernities: Early twentieth-century Balinese textual explorations. Journal of Asian Studies, 66 (3), 723-758. doi: 10.1017/S0021911807000940
Creese, Helen (2006). A Puputan Tale: "The story of a pregnant woman". Indonesia, 82, 1-37.
Creese, Helen (2004). Reading the Bali Post: women and representation in post-Suharto Bali. Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, 10 (1).
Creese, H. M. (2003). Review of Puspakrema: a Javanese Romance from Lombok, by TH. C. Van der Meij. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 34 (3), 575-576. doi: 10.1017/S002246340327048X
Creese, Helen (2003). William Cummings. Making blood white: Historical transformations in early modern Makassar. American Historical Review, 108 (3), 814-815. doi: 10.1086/529620
Creese, Helen and Bellows, Laura (2002). Erotic Literature in Nineteenth-Century Bali. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 33 (3), 385-413. doi: 10.1017/S0022463402000309
Creese, H. M. (2001). Images of women and embodiment in Kakawin literature. Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context (5), 1-19.
Creese, H. M. (2001). Ultimate loyalties: The self-immolation of women in Java and Bali. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-en Volkenkunde (BKI), 157 (1), 131-166. doi: 10.1163/22134379-90003822
Creese, Helen (2001). Old Javanese studies: a review of the field. Bijdragen tot de Taal Land en Volkenkunde, 157 (1), 3-33. doi: 10.1163/22134379-90003816
Creese, H. M. (2000). Balinese television histories: Broadcasting historical discourses in late New Order Indonesia. RIMA, 34 (1), 39-84.
Creese, Helen (1999). The Balinese kakawin tradition: a preliminary description and inventory. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 155 (1), 45-96. doi: 10.1163/22134379-90003880
Creese, Helen (1996). Pieces in the puzzle: the dating of several kakawin from Bali and Lombok. Archipel, 52 (1), 143-171. doi: 10.3406/arch.1996.3360
Creese, Helen (1995). Chronologies and chronograms; An interim response to Hägerdal. Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, 151 (1), 125-131. doi: 10.1163/22134379-90003059
Creese, H. (1991). Balinese Babad as historical sources - a reinterpretation of the fall of Gelgel. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde: journal of the humanities and social sciences of Southeast Asia, 147 (2-3), 236-260. doi: 10.1163/22134379-90003188
Creese, H. (1991). Surawirya, Sri, Dewa Agung of Klungkung (c-1722-1736) - the historical context for dating the Kakawin Parthayana. Bijdragen Tot De Taal- Land- En Volkenkunde, 147 (4), 402-419. doi: 10.1163/22134379-90003175

Conference Papers

Creese, H. M. (2004). Three transitional texts: Turn of the century Balinese views of the world. 15th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA), Canberra, Australia, 29 June-2 July 2004. Canberra, Australia: Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA).
Creese, Helen (2003). Kakawin Sebagai Sumber Sejarah Sosial Nusantara. Simposium Internasional Pernaskahan Nusantara Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, 27-29 July, 2003. not found: not found.
Creese, H. M. (2002). Women, tradition and reformation in Bali. After Sovereignty: Nation and Place (Asian Studies Association of Australia), Hobart, 30th June - 3rd July 2002. Hobart: Asian Studies Association of Australia.
Creese, H. M. (2000). Inside the 'Inner Court' : The world of women in Balinese Kidung poetry. Engendering Early Modern Southeast Asian History, University of Hawaii, 20-22 March, 1998. Honolulu: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Uni. Hawaii.

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Studies in Culture
Translation and Interpreting
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