Australia in Asia - Asia in Australia: An Intercontinental Cultural Discourse

Jörg-Dieter Riemenschneider was Professor of Commonwealth literature/English Language Literatures at the University of Frankfurt (1972-99), Lecturer in German at Punjab University, Chandigarh and Delhi University, and Visiting Professor at I.I.T. Madras, the Universities of Nice and Lyon and Massey University, New Zealand. He edited ACOLIT (1977-99), published numerous articles on Indian, African, Australian, New Zealand and Pacific literatures and sixteen books, among them Shiva tanzt (3rd ed. 2004), ed. Postcolonial Theory: A Selected  and Annotated Bibliography (2004, 2006), The Reception of the Indian Novel in English (2005), and Reise nachIndien (2008). Wildes Licht (Wild Light), his bilingual anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand poetry, will be released in 2009.