Literature

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.

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