Hsu-Ming Teo teaches creative writing and literature in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Her academic publications include Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels (2012), and the edited books Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History (co-edited with Paloma Fresno-Calleja, Routledge 2024), The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction (co-edited with Jayashree Kamble and Eric Murphy Selinger, Routledge 2020), The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia (ASP 2017), and Cultural History in Australia (UNSW 2003). She has published a range of articles on the historical romance, romantic love, Orientalism, imperialism, fiction, travel writing, and popular culture. She is an editorial board member of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies.

Her first novel Love and Vertigo (2000) won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and was shortlisted for several other awards. It has been translated into Chinese, Thai, German and Italian. Her second novel Behind the Moon (2005) was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards. 

Judging activities: Hsu-Ming served on the advisory panel of the Man Asian Literary Prize from 2007 to 2012 and judged the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize. Her other judging activities include: the NSW Premier’s Literary Award in 2007; the NSW Premier’s History Prize in 2013, 2017, and 2023; The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award from 2020 to 2022; the Singapore Literature Prize in 2024, the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2024.

Popular romance studies; fiction and history; popular fiction; Orientalism; cultural history; gender and popular culture; creative writing.

Hsu-Ming is part of a team of researchers led by Dr Fresno-Calleja working on the "Romance For Change: Diversity, Intersectionality and Affective Reparation in Contemporary Romantic Narratives" project funded by the Ministerio De Ciencia e Innovación (Ministry of Science and Innovation), Spain, and the European Union’s European Regional Development Fund (Project ID2021-122249NB-I00): https://blocs.uib.cat/romanceforchange/. 

Lecturing in:

ENGL2036 Writing Popular Genre Fiction

ENGL2040 Historical Fiction and a Passion for the Past

ENGL8015 Writing Creative Non-fiction - An Introduction

ENGL8017 Writing the Past, Building New Worlds

ENGL8026 Developing the Novel or Novella