People

Prof. Barrie Sherwood

Barrie Sherwood is Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities at NTU. His publications include The Pillow Book of Lady Kasa (DC Books, 2000), Escape from Amsterdam (Granta Books, 2007), The Angel Tiger (Epigram Books, 2019).

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Prof. Neil Murphy

Neil Murphy is Professor of English at NTU, Singapore. His primary research interests include contemporary Irish and world fiction, as well as the relationship between the visual arts and literature. He is the editor of Aidan Higgins: The Fragility of Form (Dalkey Archive Press, 2010). He has co-edited (with Keith Hopper) a special Flann O’Brien centenary issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction (2011) and The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien (Dalkey Archive Press, 2013). He has also co-edited (with Keith Hopper) a four-book series related to the work of Dermot Healy, including a scholarly edition of Fighting with Shadows (2015), as well as Dermot Healy: The Collected Short Stories (2015), Dermot Healy: The Collected Plays (2016), and Writing the Sky: Observations and Essays on Dermot Healy (2016). His monograph, John Banville (2018), was published by Bucknell UP, and he is currently working on a new work on the significance of the visual arts in contemporary fiction.

Prof. Barrie Sherwood

Barrie Sherwood is Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities at NTU. His publications include The Pillow Book of Lady Kasa (DC Books, 2000), Escape from Amsterdam (Granta Books, 2007), The Angel Tiger (Epigram Books, 2019).

Prof. Cheryl Julia Lee

Cheryl Julia Lee is an Assistant Professor with the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University. Her research interests lie in Southeast Asian literature and culture and contemporary literature. Her poetry collection, We Were Always Eating Expired Things, was published in 2014, and was nominated for the Singapore Literature Prize.  

Yong Shu Hoong

Yong Shu Hoong holds a Computer Science degree from the National University of Singapore and an MBA from Texas A&M University at College Station. He has published six collections of poetry to date: Isaac (1997), Isaac Revisited (2001), dowhile (2002), frottage (2005), From within the marrow (2010) and The Viewing Party (2013). He has won the Singapore Literature Prize twice, in 2006 and 2014. He is the founder of subTEXT, a series of monthly literary readings which ran from 2001 to 2008, and which is now held on an ad-hoc basis. He is also the coordinator of the National Arts Council’s Mentor Access Project. Yong currently works as a freelance writer and his articles have appeared in newspapers such as The Straits Times and My Paper.

Prof. Yow Cheun Hoe

Yow Cheun Hoe is associate professor at the Nanyang Technological University, where he is Head, Chinese, School of Humanities, and Director, Chinese Heritage Centre. Apart from published academic works on Chinese diaspora, he writes poems in Chinese. His collections of poetry are Liuxian (Flowing Lines, 2016) and Xiangxing (Pictograph, 2020).

Prof. Zhang Songjian

Zhang Songjian is currently an associate professor at the Chinese Division, NTU. His research areas are Modern Chinese literature, Southeast Asian Chinese-language literature and comparative literature. He has extensively written on these areas and has six monographs published by renowned presses.

Prof. Hee Wai Siam

Hee Wai Siam is Associate Professor of Chinese at the School of Humanities, NTU. He has published four monographs and co-edited three academic books. His recent published monographs include Remapping the Sinophone: The Cultural Production of Chinese-language Cinema in Singapore and Malaya Before and During the Cold War.

Prof. Tan Chee Lay

Writer-artist Tan Chee Lay is Associate Professor of Chinese at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, with a PhD in Chinese literature from Cambridge University. Academically, he is the National Library Board’s George Lyndon Hicks Fellow and Lee Kong Chian Research Fellow, while creatively, he won the Golden Point Award, Young Artist Award, Singapore Youth Award, Dr Tan Tsze Chor Art Award, and NTNU Calligraphy Competition. He has published over 20 creative writing and academic books, including Landmark Poetics of the Lion City, which was awarded the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize.

Chow Teck Seng

Singapore-born, Chow Teck Seng aka (ZHOU Decheng 周德成）writes poetry primarily in Chinese and has won awards such as the Singapore Literature Prize (2014) and Golden Point Award (2009). Former lecturer (Chinese-language Literature) at NUS and NIE, he is currently pursuing a PhD at Cambridge University.

Chia Joo Ming

Born in 1959 in Singapore, Chia Joo Ming (谢裕民) won the Singapore Young Artist award in 1993 and participated in the Iowa international writing program in 1995. He was also writer-in-residence in the Chinese program, Nanyang Technological University, in 2014. Chia is a three-time recipient of the Singapore Literature Prize, in 2006, 2010, and 2016. His works include: The Most Boring Nationality (最闷族, 1989),  New Words of Worldly Tales (世说新语, 1994), The Insignificance of Being (一般是非, 1999), Reconstructing Nanyang Images (重构南洋图像, 2005),  M40 (2009), 1644: The Year A Dynasty Was Hanged (甲申说明书, 2012), and Exile or Pursuit (放逐与追逐, 2015). He is currently a senior executive sub-editor in Lianhe Zaobao (联合早报), Singapore main’s Chinese-language newspaper.

Dr. Sa’eda binte Buang

Dr. Sa’eda binte Buang is a Senior Lecturer at the Asian Languages and Cultures Academic Group, NIE since 1 July 2001.

Azhar Ibrahim

Azhar Ibrahim, PhD is a Lecturer at the Department of Malay Studies, National University of Singapore (NUS). He teaches Malay-Indonesian literature and ideologies of development at the Department. His research interest includes sociology of religion, sociology of literature, critical literacy, and the Malay-Indonesian intellectual development.

Tajudin Jaffar

Tajudin is with the Malay Language Unit, Mother Tongue Languages Branch, Curriculum Planning and Development Division (CPDD), Ministry of Education. He designs, develops and implements Malay Language Curriculum, syllabi and instructional materials. He also work with the community to promote Malay language and literature programmes.

Prof. Seetha Lakshmi

Seetha Lakshmi is an Associate Professor of the Asian Languages and Cultures Academic Group at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. She has led teaching and research concerned primarily with Standard Spoken Tamil, Curriculum Review, Classroom Pedagogy, Tamil lexicography, Teaching Tamil as a second language, Tamil pedagogy for the Tamil Diaspora and Teaching Tamil through Media.

K. Kanagalatha

Kanagalatha has published three collections of poetry in Tamil: Theeveli, Paampuk Kaattil Oru Thaazhai and Yaarukkum Illaatha Paalai. She has also published a short story collection Nan Kolai Seiyum Pengal (Women I Murder) in 2007, which won the biennial Singapore Literature Prize in 2008. The English translation of her short story collection The Goddess in the Living Room was published in 2014. Her poems and short stories have been published in multilingual anthologies. Kanagalatha is one of the founding directors for Poetry Festival Singapore.

Sithuraj Ponraj

Sithuraj Ponraj began writing fiction and poetry at 18 years old and his works have since been published in several leading periodicals in India, Malaysia, and Singapore. In 2016, he won the Singapore Literature Prize for Tamil Fiction for his debut short story collection, Maariligal (The Unchangeables), as well as the Singapore Literature Merit Prize for Tamil poetry for his debut poetry collection, Kaatrai Kadanthaai (You Passed Like the Wind).

Sithuraj Ponraj currently serves as the Director of the International Cyber Policy Office at the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA). In this role, he drives CSA’s bilateral, regional and international engagements through initiatives such the ASEAN Cyber Capacity Programme (ACCP), the Singapore International Cyber Week, as well as co-chairing the ASEAN Regional Forum Open Ended Study Group on Confidence Building Measures.