My name is Eunike G. Setiadarma (Nik, they/them). I’m an essayist and PhD candidate in History at Northwestern University specializing in modern Indonesia and Southeast Asia with a broader interest in intellectual history, literary history, history of emotions, and gender and sexuality. I’m currently writing a dissertation tentatively titled “The Craft of Care: Home Life and Emotions in Indonesia, 1900s-1960s” that examines the emergence of care thinking within the productions and circulations of domestic scenes and everyday emotions. Incorporating a broad range of sources written by Native and Chinese literates in Malay/Indonesian language, I explore the cultivation of intellectual and social practices of paying attention and attending to others that helped reproducing dreams and desires of ordinary life during and after colonialism, war, and independence.
With my best friend Pepe, we create a literary e-zine Terminal Bus.
If you have any inquiries about work, speaking engagements, guest teaching, or would like to request a meeting, please contact through email: niksetiadarma@gmail.com
Nik Setiadarma 