| Name | Research Interests |
| Prof Chan Kam Leung Alan | Chinese Philosophy and Religion; Hermeneutics and Critical Theory; Comparative Philosophy and Religion |
| 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.
His research project “Shanshui in the Anthropocene: Comparative Ecocriticism in Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture,” fills major voids in the field of ecocriticism by offering cross-cultural analysis of film and visual media texts in Chinese contexts, and explores the changing dynamics and relationships between human beings and the environment in China under its drastic transformations.
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. |
| Dr Cui Feng | Translation Studies,
Comparative Literature |
| Dr Ella Raidel | Experimental Cinema, Sinophone Cinema, Contemporary Aesthetics, Contemporary Art, Interdisciplinary Research Urban Studies |
| Asst Prof Els Van Dongen | Research Areas
Chinese intellectuals
Intellectual debates in reform China (post-1978)
Conceptual history and knowledge circulation
Twentieth-century Chinese historiography
Intellectual history of modern China
Chinese diaspora and migration
Diaspora policies and nationalism
Education of returned overseas Chinese during the Cold War
Universities for Chinese overseas in the PRC during the reform period (post-1978)
For my publications, see:
http://nanyang.academia.edu/ElsvanDongen
Teaching Areas
HH1003 Asia-Pacific in Global History: From 1800
HH3001 Historiography: Theory and Methods
HH3003 Migration and Diaspora: Chinese Experiences in Comparative Perspective
HH3015 In the Name of the Nation?: Nationalism in Asia
HH3021 Traitors, TV Stars, and Taboos: Representing History in Contemporary China
HH4012 Intellectual History of Modern China
HH7090 Special Topics in History: Global Asia |
| Asst Prof Fang Xiaoping | History of medicine, health, and disease in twentieth-century China
Rural China after 1949
Modern Chinese history |
| Dr Goh Chye Tee | Prof Goh Chye Tee?s areas of expertise are Accounting, Cost Management and TCM. His current research works focus on the integration of traditional culture and modern management. |
| 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. |
| Prof Goh Nguen Wah | Dr. Goh's areas of interests include: government and politics of Singapore, government's media, education and language policies, language planning; the rise of China and the global Chinese language fever, the prospects of Chinese language in a globalized world, cross-cultural studies, journalism of the West and the East. |
| 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 Hee Wai Siam | His current research focuses on “anti-Communist films sponsored by the UK and US governments in Southeast Asia during the Cold War period.” This research project will analyze the USIS/USIA anti-Communist films made in Southeast Asia, comparing them with anti-Communist films produced by the Malayan Film Unit; with USIA-sponsored anti-Communist films produced in other parts of the world; and with Hollywood-made films with strong anti-Communist messages. Though replete with significant research potential in a variety of disciplines, the production, distribution, exhibition and reception of anti-communist films made in this region have been overlooked in past scholarship. His research project intends to fill in the gaps of this aspect of film and cultural-political history. It will draw on Cold War era archives covering film, public diplomacy, propaganda, cultural production and language policies from the U.S. and U.K. governments, as well as reportage on film culture in old newspapers, periodicals and other publications. These resources will be combined and analyzed to reveal the Cold War ideologies then running through Southeast Asian cinema. |
| Dr Helena Gao | Cognitive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Bilingual Development, Language Learning and Language Teaching, Computational Linguistics. |
| Prof Hong Hai | Prof Hong has a wide range of research interests, including East Asian culture and management and Chinese medical theories. |
| 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 Ian Rowen | Cultural and political geography, social movements, tourism, transitional justice, innovation, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia. |
| Assoc Prof Josh Wheatly Keller | Associate Professor Keller's primary research interest is studying how managers think about paradoxes (cooperation and competition, exploration and exploitation and authenticity and legitimacy). He examines cross-cultural differences, the role of the industry environment, and individual differences. He also is looking at the neurological foundation of paradox. |
| Asst Prof Koh Keng We | Asian and Comparative Business History; Maritime Trade; Southeast Asian History; Chinese Religions and Comparative Religions; Asian Migrations and Comparative Diasporas; Colonialism; Colonial Knowledge-Formation; State-formations; World History/Global History |
| Dr Kumaran Rajaram | • Organisational Science and Behaviour
• Institutional and Organizational Culture
• Learning Culture and Culture of Learning in Higher Education Institutions and Organizations
• Cross-Cultural Management
• Internationalization of Higher Education
• Learning Analytics
• Cognitive and Educational Neuroscience
• Character Education and Leadership Development in Business Education
Research Interest in the Neuroscience of Learning and Education
• Social-Psychological interventions in Business Education
• Applying Neuroscience to comprehend:
• Empathy, Compassion, Character Education and Leadership traits
• Engagement and Learning Effectiveness amongst learners
• Students’ Performance and Outcomes |
| Asst Prof Kuo Szu-Yu, Arista | Audiovisual translation, subtitling, translator training, translation quality assessment, and cross-cultural communication. |
| 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 |
| Assoc Prof Lim Khek Gee, Francis | religion, tourism, China, Singapore, South Asia (Nepal, Tibet) |
| Asst Prof Lim Ni Eng | My on-going research focuses on the interactional, socio-cultural and cognitive operations at work in normal everyday Mandarin Chinese talk-in-interaction, using quantitative statistical methodologies on large Mandarin corpora and qualitative conversation analysis of real-time video and audio recordings. Through investigating commonplace social action/expression and their discourse-pragmatic functions, cognitive phenomenon such as theory of mind and intersubjectivity can be empirically and discursively explicated. As insights into the language-specific resources available for interactional accomplishments is gained, pedagogical methodologies for teaching spoken Mandarin Chinese can be further refined.
Currently, Ni Eng is involved in investigating doctor-patient interaction in medical settings as the Principal Investigator of a Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 2 grant titled "Doctoring the Elderly: Doctor-Patient Interaction in a Urology Clinic". |
| Assoc Prof Lin Jingxia | Chinese linguistics; Syntax; Semantics; Syntax-semantics interface; Global Chinese; Grammaticalization and lexicalization; typology; Chinese dialect studies |
| Prof Liu Hong | Current Research Areas
• China rising and implications for Southeast Asia
• Chinese international migration, nationalism, transnationalism
• Transnational knowledge transfer and dynamic governance in the Global South (with special reference to China, Southeast Asia and Africa)
• Global talent strategies and management |
| Prof Luke Kang Kwong Kapathy | Interaction between tone and intonation; Prosody in Conversational Interaction; Conversation Analysis; English and Chinese grammar; Chinese Linguistics; History and structure of Cantonese; Language and Cognitive Neuroscience; Corpus Linguistics; Natural Language Processing |
| Asst Prof Michael Stanley-Baker | Chinese Medicine
Chinese Religions
Digital Humanities
Medical Anthropology
Chinese Literature and History
Asian Medicines |
| Asst Prof Michelle Lim | Contemporary Art
History of Exhibitions
Contemporary Curating
Sustainability and Communities in Urban Ecologies
Art History (East Asia) |
| Assoc Prof Ng Bee Chin | Ng Bee Chin works in the area of child language acquisition and semantics. Her primary area of research is in psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics aspects of language acquisition in multilingual contexts. Topics which she has worked on include bilingual acquisition, language identity and attitudes, semantic and conceptual acquisition, interpretation and translation, language and gender, speech pathology in multilingual settings. Given the multilingual context she works in, she is interested in any aspect of language enquiry which explores the interaction between the speaker and the enviroment. |
| Assoc Prof Ng Woon Lam | His research interests include areas in Art Education, Scientific study of art materials, Oriental Art History and Culture, South East Asia Art, Classical Painting language in Contemporary Art and Digital Animation, Digital Painting, Design, Illustration and Fine Art.
Potential researchers, Phd / MA students may contact him directly to discuss possible research collaborations or supervision.
Looking for potential Phd students / Master students in Computer Science or Engineering to work with Python programming for MAYA. The program is to work for Calligraphic brushworks in 3D space. Interested potential students, please contact Asst. Prof. Ng Woon Lam : ngwoonlam@ntu.edu.sg
Looking for suitable MA students to work on Fine Art related research, focusing on colors and design |
| Asst Prof Ong Soon Keong | Chinese migration and the overseas Chinese
Modern Chinese history
Chinese urban history
Treaty ports, especially Xiamen |
| 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 |
| Prof Randy John La Polla | Sino-Tibetan Linguistics
Linguistic Typology
Historical linguistics (including Grammaticalization and Sino-Tibetan reconstruction)
Functional Syntax (esp. Role & Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar)
Pragmatics (particularly Relevance Theory)
Anthropological Linguistics (Asian languages on which I have done fieldwork: Cambodian, Chinese dialects [Southern Fujian, Beijing subdialects, Shanghai, Guangzhou dialects], Dulong [1st Township, 3rd Township, 4th Township, Nujiang dialects], Qiang [Ronghong, Qugu dialects], Rawang [Mvtwang, Dvru dialects], Tagalog, Vietnamese.) |
| Assoc Prof Sun Hsiao-Li Shirley | Science, Technology and Society (STS)
Medical Sociology (social impacts of precision medicine)
Population and Reproduction
Citizenship and Social Inequalities
Changing Families |
| 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 Yeh Hui-Yuan | Biological Anthropology
Archaeological Science
Bioarchaeology
Human migrations
Population genetics
Disease prediction
Disease evolution
Health and society
Full Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivy_Hui_Yuan_Yehyehuiyuan |
| Assoc Prof Yeo Puay Hwa Jesvin | Interdisciplinary Design Research – exploring design in different fields/industries (such as media, retailer, banking and financial services, healthcare and pharmaceutical) to integrate functional, emotional and social aspects that are based on actual need.
Intangible and Tangible Heritage Studies – innovation through culture and tradition.
Design and Visual Research Methods – theoretical and practical influences on creative concept development in the design-visual communication processes.
Visual Research – Material Culture; Asian Cultural Identity; Experimental Typography; Inclusive and Innovative Packaging Design; Knowledge Visualization.
Digital Humanities – Cultural Analytics; Visualization and Data Design. |
| 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. |
| Asst Prof Zhan Shaohua | Economic sociology; Global development; Historical sociology; Labor migration; and China studies |
| Asst Prof Zhang Songjian | Modern and contemporary Chinese literature, Southeast Asian Chinese literature, East-West Comparative Literature, Critical Theory. |
| Assoc Prof Zhou Zhaocheng | His research area includes history and politics of Singapore, China-Southeast Asian relationship and media-politic relationship. |
