Name | Research Interests |
Dr Angela Frattarola | Modernism, Auditory Technology, Twentieth-Century Literature, Sound Studies, Composition Theory and Pedagogy |
Asst Prof Barrie Wayne Sherwood | The contemporary novel
Narratives of photograph and text
Creative writing: research-led teaching
WG Sebald |
Assoc Prof Bede Tregear Scott | South Asian Literature
African Literature
Latin American Literature
Colonial and Postcolonial Urban Studies
Colonial Literature and Narratives of Empire
World Crime Fiction
Affect Studies
Narratology |
Dr Benedict Lin | Dr Lin research is in applied linguistics and stylistics, the application of the methods of linguistics to the analysis of literary texts. He works from the theoretical perspective of Systemic Functional Grammar, applying it to text/discourse analysis, as well as stylistics. Specifically, one area of his current research interests is the language & discourse of science, engineering & engineering education, with a focus areas on metadiscourse in journal articles and students' developmental writing. Another area is stylistics and its implications for literature education and pedagogy, especially in post-colonial contexts. His research also covers English & English Language Teaching in Southeast Asia, and he also has an interest in New Englishes and their implications for language teaching. |
Mr Benjamin Alexander Slater | Singapore Cinema
Screenwriting Craft and Practice
Fiction, Narratives & Storytelling
Interactive & Experiential Narratives
Urban Space, Psychogeography
Film Histories & Criticism
Creative Writing |
Assoc Prof Boey Kim Cheng | Contemporary Irish Poetry
Modern American and British Poetry
Asian Australian Poetry
Tang Dynasty Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
Travel Writing
Memoir
The Short Story |
Asst Prof Broc Norman Rossell | My research broadly explores theories of genre and lyric as they relate to the social and material production of literature. My creative practice engages matters of subject formation and polyphony to design socially constructed projects. |
Prof C.J. Wee Wan-ling | • Globalisation and contemporary cultural production in East and Southeast Asia
• Curation and the idea of 'Asia'
• Literature, theatre and contemporary visual art in Singapore
• Colonialism and nationalism in English and Anglophone literatures and cultures
• Cultural and Postcolonial theory
• Modernity, modernism and the contemporary in Euro-America and East Asia |
Miss Cheng Ooi Lan | Catherine's areas of expertise are Emotional Intelligence and Multicultural Minds in Negotiation. Her current research works focus on Multicultural Minds in Inter- and Intracultural Negotiation
Multicultural minds describe bicultural individuals - people who have internalized two cultures to the extent that both cultures influence their thoughts, feelings and actions in turn. Essentially, the internalized cultures are independent and the original culture is not replaced by the new. However, given the right priming, these different cultures are surfaced in the bicultural individuals separately. Which culture is surfaced is dependent on the cues such as context and symbols that are psychologically associated with one culture or another that these individuals are primed with.
The process whereby bicultural individuals switch mindsets is termed frame switching. To understand frame switching, one must think of culture as not being internalized in the form of an integrated and highly general structure but as a loose network of domain-specific knowledge structure. Furthermore, individuals are seen as being able to acquire more than one cultural meaning system eventhough the system may contain contradictory or conflicting constructs.
How particular pieces of cultural knowledge become operative is dependent on the accessibility of the construct. It has been a long-standing hypothesis in cognitive and social pyschology that a construct is accessible to the extent that it has been activated by recent use. Thus, if an individual is primed with iconic cultural symbols, i.e., images created or selected for their power to evoke in observers a particular frame of mind, activation of a certain network of cultural constructs would be possible. For example, if a bicultural Singaporean exposed to Singaporean icons like the Merlion, it should activate interpretative constructs in their Singaporean cultural knowledge network; exposing the same individual to American icons like a picture of Abraham Lincoln instead should activate constructs in their American cultural knowledge network.
Thus, this leads us to the following research questions:
Firstly, is it possible for bicultural individuals through priming and frame switching surface scripts and schemas for negotiation appropriate to the culture of the other negotiating party?
Secondly, can culture priming activate culture specific behaviors?
Another related question would be: which context ? intracultrual or intercultural mindframes ? provides the highest joint gains if a bicultural individual activates the appropriate scripts and schemas in the negotiation process?
Finally, what mediators and moderators, if any, contribute towards the possible difference in results?
Substantial research has been done on negotiation by western scholars over the past decade. In the area of cross-cultural negotation, there is extensive work on negotiations in different cultural contexts by various scholars. There is also some research on negotiations between members of different cultures or intercultural negotiation. However, work on cultural influence within individuals who have been exposed extensively to two cultures (biculturals) in a negotiation context has not been studied. Therefore, it would be of interest to determine just how the bicultural influences in a bicultural individual would interfere with the negotiation of joint gains in an intracultural and intercultural negotiation context. |
Asst Prof Chiang Hui Ling Michelle | Modernism
Theatre of the Absurd
Beckett Studies
Horror Studies
Philosophy of Time and Mind |
Dr Christopher John Hill | His research focuses on writing pedagogy including: learning transfer, peer review and student-partnered learning. |
Asst Prof Christopher Peter Trigg | The American Puritans
The Radical Enlightenment
Transcendentalism
Political Theology
Religion in American Literature |
Asst Prof Chu Kiu-wai | Kiu-wai’s major research explores how cinema, media and arts represent nature and the environment; and how they impact people’s perceptions and actions towards environmental issues in contemporary world. It also examines how culture shapes, and is shaped by, the contacts and interactions between human and the more-than-human world (including animals, plants, inanimate objects, and the environment) in the Anthropocene age.
Kiu-wai is also actively promoting cross-regional research and educational initiatives and collaborations in Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities, particularly in East and Southeast Asian regions. He welcomes global research collaborations with academics from all disciplines, and non-academics such as artists, curators, media workers and others on cultural and ecocritical projects. |
Prof Cornelius Anthony Murphy | Neil Murphy's primary research interests include the following:
20th/21st Century Irish literature
Modernism
Contemporary fiction
Aesthetics and literature
Narrative Theory
Flann O'Brien
John Banville
Aidan Higgins. |
Dr Cui Feng | Translation Studies,
Comparative Literature |
Assoc Prof Daniel Keith Jernigan | Modern and Contemporary British Literature; Modern and Postmodern Drama; Narrative Theory; Playwriting |
Dr F. Perono Cacciafoco | Historical Linguistics, Etymology, Diachronic Toponymy, Historical Semantics, Onomastics, Indo-European Linguistics, Language Documentation, Descriptive Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics, Austronesian and Papuan Languages, Landscape Archaeology |
Assoc Prof Goh Geok Yian | Associate Professor Goh Geok Yian's areas of expertise are: early history of Burma and Southeast Asia, premodern communication, cultural, religious and trade networks, and study of early urbanization. She currently leads a multi-year project in Bagan, Myanmar and Singapore focusing on ceramics analysis and urbanization. Her current research in Singapore deals with the analysis of materials excavated from two sites: St. Andrew’s Cathedral and Fort Canning Spice Gardens. She is also completing an English translation of a 20th-century Burmese novel by a well-known author, Ma Sandar. Geok has also plans to further her research in the study of Buddhist architecture and mural paintings of Bagan, continuing work on a project which she began in 2008. |
Asst Prof Graham John Matthews | Contemporary Literature
Medical Humanities |
Assoc Prof Hans-Martin Rall | Research profile Asst/Prof. Hans-Martin Rall
Asst/Prof. Rall's research interests are mainly in the areas of digital animation development and interdisciplinary research in art and technology.
He is a renowned director of independent animated short films, with 8 major film-funding grants awarded to him by German and European institutions.
Since 1997 Hannes Rall has built a strong reputation for adapting literature successfully
in his animated short films:
“The Raven“ (1999) and ”The Erl-King“(2003) , adapted from the famous poems by E.A. Poe and J.W. von Goethe respectively, have been screened in over 120 film festivals
world wide and won multiple awards.
His work was shown in group-and solo-shows in galleries in 20 countries worldwide since 2004.
-Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
-National Museum Singapore
-State Gallery of the Arts Stuttgart, Germany
-Bangkok International Film Festival
-Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, Beirut
-Egyptian Opera House, Metrogalerie, Kairo
-Cinematheque. Tel Aviv
-Goethe-Institut Damaskus
-Goethe-Institut Ramallah
-Seika Art Academy, Kyoto
-Osaka European Film Festival
-Auckland University of Technology, NZ
-Pataka Museum Wellington, NZ
-Muzium dan Galeri Seni Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang
"Tradigital Mythmaking":
-Goethe-Institut Singapore/Singapore International Film-Festival
-Goethe Institut Kuala Lumpur/Univesrsiti Teknologi Mara Kuala Lumpur
Asst/Prof. Rall was awarded a 86 000,- SD tier 1 research grant by NTU in 2006.
“Tradigital Mythmaking-Singaporean-Animation for the 21st Century” :
In this project Prof. Rall explores the development of genuinely Southeast Asian animation styles, which are not derived from Western or Japanese concepts.
His book “Tradigital Mythmaking” was published in Singapore in 2009.
In 2010 he was awarded a second tier 1 research grant in the amount of SD 150 000,- to
continue and expand his research in “Tradigital Mythmaking-The Next level”:
In close cooperation with the Co-PI Prof. Seah Hock Soon from the School of Computer Engineering,
Asst/Prof. Rall is exploring the development of digital tools for the adaptation of Asian
mythological stories in local art styles.
External research funding
2007 Film production funding by the Film Funding Board of Baden Württemberg (MFG Filmförderung) for the film “The Cold Heart”
2004 Script-development funding by the MFG Baden-Württemberg for the animated shortfilm „THE COLD HEART“.
2003 Reference-filmfunding for the film ”The Erl-King“ by the FFA Berlin.
2000 Production-funding for „The Erl-King“ MFG Baden-Württemberg
2000 Production-funding for “The Erl-King”by the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film.
2000 Reference-funding for “The Raven”by FFA, Berlin
1997 Production-funding for the short film “The Raven”by the MFG Baden-Württemberg
1994 Script-development funding for animated series „Dicki“ by MEDIA-program
Research areas:
-Exploring Asian culture and history to develop unique and original animation styles, which are not derived from Western concepts.
(Current research project: “Tradigital Mythmaking”)
-Development and application of new digital technology to visualize Asian art styles in animation (Current research project: “The Living Line” Co-PI: Prof. Seah Hock Soon SCE,
10 000,-SD mini seed grant by Institute for Media Innovation NTU)
-The adaptation of literature for animation
(Current research project: “The Cold Heart”, 25 minute animated short film
adapted from the novel by Wilhelm Hauff, 90 000,- Euro film-funding grant
by MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg).
-Marketing animated short films in the 21st century (URECA research project)
-History of German animation
-History of Southeast Asian Animation |
Assoc Prof I Lo-fen | Text and Image Studies
Chinese Poetry and Visual Art
Chinese Literary Works on Paintings
Su Shi Studies
Interchange of East-Asian Culture and Literature in Classical Chinese
Asian Visual Culture and Aesthetics |
Asst Prof Katherine Blyn Wakely-Mulroney | British literature of the long eighteenth century
Children's literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Children's poetry
The history of reading
Devotional and pedagogical literature |
Asst Prof Katherine Hindley | Old English Literature
Middle English Literature
Charms and Amulets
History of Magic
History of Medicine
Manuscript Studies |
Asst Prof Kevin Andrew Riordan | Modernism
Theater and Performance
Theory
Comparative and World Literatures
Cinema |
Ms Kristina Marie Tom | Student-faculty partnership in curriculum design.
The impact of media type (digital vs. non-digital) on cognitive construal levels, specifically in regards to teaching (evaluation) and learning (reading comprehension and critical thought) applications. |
Assoc Prof Kwan Sze Pui Uganda | Translation Studies (Translation History; Gender issues in cross cultural translation; Literary translation)
Comparative Modern Sino-Japanese Literature
British Sinology in the 19th Century
Hong Kong Literature |
Asst Prof Lee Sang Joon | My current manuscript project, tentatively titled 'The Asian Film Festival and the Emergence of Transnational Cinema Network in Cold War Asia' is a book-length study on the cultural history of the Asian Film Festival. This will trace the early history of the festival and explore the ways in which cold war politics, ideology, international relations, and nationalism have shaped this regional film festival, led by the Japanese film industry, in postwar Asia, and to what extent the festival had influenced the regional film industries and cultures during its first two decades, from 1953 to 1972.
As part of my future research plans, I also plan to write a critical investigation of the Korean cinema renaissance in the 1990s and the beginning of the new millennium. Instead of analyzing industrial structures or scrutinizing single/multiple texts, this project, tentatively titled 'Celluloid Korea: Cinema at the End of the Century,' will examine the particular phenomenon from the perspectives that consider manifold factors; cine-club movements, the emergence of film schools, translations and interpretations of critical theories, film journals, multiplexes, and the intellectuals’ turn to the cultural industries throughout the 1990s. I will particularly address to what extent politics, new economic conditions, social changes, and nationalism have shaped Korean screen cultures and industry throughout the past two decades.
In tandem with the above project, I am writing critical essays on contemporary practices of transnational media connections between Korea, Japan, and China, Korean popular culture and social media, and a new method of writing transnational film history that is especially important for regions linked by both cultural correspondences and political systems. |
Asst Prof Lee Wei Ling, Cheryl Julia | - Contemporary British and Irish fiction
- Aesthetics
- Philosophy |
Dr Melvin Chen | Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
Philosophy of the Imagination
Creative Cognition Research
Aesthetics
Metaethics & Normative Ethics
Philosophy & Literature |
Prof Michael John Kirk Walsh | My research falls under the umbrella term 'Conflict and Culture' and can be subdivided into three main categories:
1. British (and imperial) cultural production in the first two decades of the 20th century (especially in relation to the Great War)
2. Heritage in Conflict and Post-conflict Zones: Famagusta, Cyprus.
3. Twentieth century music history |
Asst Prof Nicholas Witkowski | Dr. Witkowski is engaged in two research projects, one belonging to the ancient world of South Asia and a second which deals with contemporary South Asian religious communities. The first is a multi-stage project that draws primarily on the Buddhist law codes (Vinaya) to demonstrate the centrality of ascetic precepts (dhūtaguṇas) to the Buddhist monastery of the middle period (0-500CE) in Indian Buddhism. Dr. Witkowski's recent publications have focused on the cultures of everyday life in the Indian Buddhist monastery. A second project focuses on the ascetic practices of South Indian communities, both within India, and across Indian diaspora communities in Southeast Asia. |
Prof Philippe Pirotte | -Contemporary Art
-Curating and exhibition making, the memory of exhibitions
- History of Art in South East Asia and more particular Indonesia
-Cultural implications of the 1955 Asia-Africa Conference in Bandung |
Assoc Prof Qu Jingyi | Ancient Chinese Literature and History with focus on the Han, Wei, Six Dynasties & Tang periods, Chinese Literary Historiography in the West and Cultural Heritage of Chinese Education in Singapore |
Assoc Prof Quah Sy Ren | Literary and Cultural Theory
Theatre and Performance Studies
History of Singapore Theatre |
Assoc Prof Richard Alan Barlow | James Joyce
Irish Studies
Scottish Literature and Philosophy
Modernism
Digital Humanities |
Prof Shirley Chew | Postcolonial and Colonial Literatures; Postcolonial Discourse Theory; Contemporary British Poetry and Fiction; Victorian Literature. See, for example, the co-edited book, A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), 241pp. And recent articles (single-authored), ‘Intertwinings: The “Amazing Fecundity” of Olive Senior’, in The Caribbean Short Story: Critical Perspectives, edited by Lucy Evans, Mark McWatt, & Emma Smith (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2011), pp. 269-283; and ‘Blindness and the Idea of the Artist in Kipling’s “They” and Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost, in Kipling and Beyond, edited by Kaori Nagai and Caroline Rooney (London: Palgrave 2010), pp. 144-164. |
Assoc Prof Sim Wai Chew | Singapore literature and culture, Postcolonial literature and theory, Sinophone studies, Comparative literature, and Southeast Asian studies |
Dr Song Siew Kee Geraldine | Dramaturgy
Team-Based Learning (TBL) |
Assoc Prof Stephen Teo Kian Teck | Associate Professor Stephen Teo's current research work focuses on several aspects of theoretical interest in film. Firstly, contributing to the discourse on Asian Cinema as an alternative paradigm to Hollywood as the global form, and thus to evolve a concept of Asian Cinema as a viable cinematic and media theory supporting pedagogical and creative modules. Asian cinema and the concept of national cinema are inter-related forces but it is the latter that tends to subsume the former in theoretical discourse. Teo's research work seeks a concentrated, rigorous approach to defining Asian cinema as a specialized norm of aesthetics and thematic field that can be broadly applied to Asian films produced by diverse national film industries in Asia. How do Asian cinemas transcend national interests and become an Asian Cinema as a unitary and unifying element? With Asian film industries modelling themselves on Hollywood,how can an Asian cinema stand up as an alternative model to Hollywood? A second area of Teo's reasearch interest revolves around the nature of film in relation to cultural theory and other fields of cultural interest, including literature, history and popular arts. The literary and visual contrast inherent in cinema is a striking anomaly that calls for more theoretical investigation. Teo's work has concerned itself with how historical literary works are transposed into the cinema and how historical prototypes are transfigured as cinematic personalities but retaining essential qualities. A third area of Teo's work lies in genre and auteur studies. Teo is interested in standard Hollywood genres such as the Western, the action-adventure film, the thriller, the epic, the musical, and he seeks to explore their inter-textual connections with Asian genres such as the martial arts film, the gangster action film, the melodrama, horror, and historical epic. How do auteurs transform genre? A fourth area of research interest lies in the study of emerging Asian "New Waves" in traditionally ignored film industries such as those in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines. Can these Southeast Asian cinemas make a lasting impact on the discourse of Asian cinema? |
Assoc Prof Tamara Silvia Wagner | Victorian Literature
Charles Dickens |
Mr Tash Aw | Fiction - novels and short stories |
Asst Prof Ting Chun Chun | Social and artistic activism
Chinese Literature and Cinema
Asian Urbanisms
Literary and Cultural Theory
Sinophone Literature
Chinese Ecocriticism |
Asst Prof Wang Wanzheng Michelle | W. Michelle Wang's fields of interest are in post-1945 British and American fiction, with a scholarly interest in East Asian popular culture. She specialises in areas of narrative theory and aesthetic theory, and has published articles in the Review of Contemporary Fiction and the Journal of Narrative Theory. |
Asst Prof Wong Yeang Chui | 16th century British Literature, Early Modern History, Modern Drama, Singapore Literature, and Singapore Theatre and Performance |
Assoc Prof Yow Cheun Hoe | Chinese overseas and Chinese diaspora;
Relations between Chinese overseas and China;
Southeast Asia, particularly Singapore and Malaysia;
Qiaoxiang(ancestral homeland)areas in China, particularly Guangdong and Wenzhou;
Chinese education in Southeast Asia;
Chinese writers and their works in Southeast Asia;
New Chinese migrants in Singapore;
Chinese business networks;
Transnationalism. |