Dr Patricia Ann Hardwick

Dr Patricia Ann Hardwick

  • Senior Lecturer and Program Leader
  • for Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Theatre Production
Department of Film and Performing Arts
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Biography

Patricia Ann Hardwick is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Film and Performing Arts, School of the Arts, Sunway University. Her Ph.D. is in Folklore & Ethnomusicology and Anthropology from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research interests include performance, anthropology, ethnomusicology, ICH, and cultural resilience. Patricia has published in Folklore Forum, Midwestern Folklore, JMBRAS, Music and Medicine, and Asian Ethnology. Her research has been supported by the Institute of Sacred Music (Yale), Fulbright (MACEE, AMINEF), AIFIS, the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program (U.S. Department of Higher Education), the Malaysian National Heritage Department (JWN), and the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education (KPT) .

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • Ph.D. Folklore & Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Indiana University Bloomington (2009)
  • M.A. Anthropology, Indiana University Bloomington (2003)
  • M.A. Folklore, Indiana University Bloomington (2001)
  • B.A. Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley (1999)

Research Interests

  • Southeast Asian theatre
  • Performance
  • Anthropology
  • Folklore
  • Ethnomusicology

Teaching Areas

  • Anthropology
  • Folklore
  • Ethnomusicology
  • Traditional Performing Arts of Southeast Asia
  • Intangible Cultural Heritage

Notable Publications

  1. Hardwick, P.A. (2024). Bele Bele Bejale: Exploring the Role of the Royal Courts of Kelantan, Riau-Lingga, and Serdang in the Circulation and Transformation of Mak Yong in the Nusantara. In Performing Arts and the Royal Courts of Southeast Asia. Volume One. Pusaka as Documented Heritage. Mayco A. Santaella (ed). Leiden: Brill. pp. 214-238. DOI 10.1163/9789004686533 https://brill.com/display/book/9789004686533/BP000020.xml?rskey=y1wEZW&result=2 
  2. Hardwick, P.A. (2023). Horse Play in the Lion City: Cosmopolitanism and the Polemics of Enchantment in Singaporean Kuda Kepang. In Is There Such a Thing as Singaporean Performance? Sarah Weiss (ed). Grazer Beiträge zur Ethnomusikologie/Graz Studies in Ethnomusicology Vol. 28. Institute for Ethnomusicology University of Music and Performance, Graz: Austria. pp. 129-168. https://www.shaker.eu/en/content/catalogue/index.asp?lang=en&ID=8&ISBN=978-3-8440-9191-5 
  3. Hardwick. P.A. (2022). The Tale of “Dewa Pechil”: Performing Healing, Narrating Resilience, and Seeking Sustainability for Malaysian Mak Yong. Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature. John Hopkins University Press. Vol. 60, Number 2, 2022. pp. 26-38 10.1353/bkb.2022.0023
  4. Hardwick, P.A. and Fara Dayana Mohd Jufry. (2022). Dewa Pechil: A Mak Yong Tale As Told By Ali bin Ibrahim. Tanjong Malim: Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris Press. https://upsipress.com.my/dewa-pechil-a-mak-yong-tale-told-by-ali-bin-ibrahim 
  5. You, Ziying and Hardwick P.A. (2020). Guest Editior’s Introduction: Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia: Traditions in Transition. Asian Ethnology. Vol 79. No 1. https://asianethnology.org/articles/2252 
  6. Hardwick P.A. (2020). Mak Yong, a UNESCO “Masterpiece”: Negotiating the Intangibles of Cultural Heritage and Politicized Islam. Asian Ethnology. Vol 79. No 1. https://asianethnology.org/articles/2253 
  7. Hardwick, P.A. (2014). The Body Becoming: Transformative Performance in Malaysian Mak Yong. Music and Medicine. Vol 6. No.1. http://mmd.iammonline.com/index.php/musmed/article/view/MMD-6-1-8 
  8. Hardwick, P.A. (2014). Horsing Around Melayu: Kuda Kepang, Islamic Piety and Identity Politics at Play in Singapore’s Malay Community. JMBRAS, Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Vol. 87 Part 1, No. 306, June 2014. pp. 1-19. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/544057 
  9. Hardwick, P.A. (2013). Embodying the Divine and the Body Politic: Mak Yong Performance in Rural Kelantan, Malaysia. In Performance, Popular Culture, and Piety in Muslim Southeast Asia. Timothy Daniels, (ed.) New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 77-104.
  10. Hardwick, P.A. (2008). ‘Neither Fish nor Fowl’: Constructing Peranakan Identity in Colonial and Post-Colonial Singapore. Folklore Forum: Folklore of East Asia A Tribute to Roger Janelli. Elizabeth A. Burbach ed., Kyoim Yun, guest ed. Vol. 38. N.1. pp. 36-54.