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Koh Tai Ann
Professor
Senior Associate
Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Currently Senior Associate at the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Prof. Koh Tai Ann (BA Hons; Ph.D., University of Singapore) was Dean, School of Arts, (1994- 2000) responsible for administering and developing the Arts degree programme at the National Institute of Education(NIE), an Institute of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and was promoted to full professor in 1999. When NIE re-structured, she became Dean (Academic) 2000-2003, with oversight of academic staff, Heads of Academic Groups and quality of teaching. As Dean she was also a member of NTU’s Academic Board and numerous NIE, NTU and MOE committees. In 2003, she was appointed NTU’s first Dean of Students responsible for assisting the President to formulate and implement policies with regard to student development, welfare, amenities and activities, setting up the Dean of Students’ Office, the Student Counselling Centre and the International Students’ Centre. Among other notable initiatives were a reform of the residential halls’ Fellow and admission system, a report recommending a university-wide student welfare support system and a survey, “Year 1 & Year 2 Student Profiles and Staff Pedagogy at NTU”. Appointed concurrently Professor at the then new School of Humanities and Social Sciences, she also helped to set up its new Division of English in 2003 especially with regard to staffing and urriculum and chaired NTU’s Broadening Curriculum Taskforce. She stepped down from administration in 2006 to return to teaching and research.
She had begun her career as lecturer and senior lecturer at the Department of English at the former University of Singapore, 1971 – 1979, then was Associate Professor and Deputy Head, Department of English Language and Literature and member of Senate at the National University of Singapore where she taught across the English Literature curriculum, but specialized in the poetry and prose of the Augustan period, satire, critical theory and practice. While at NUS (and later at NTU) she also created and taught new courses in Singapore and SE Asian writing in English on which she has published extensively. As the Graduate Studies Coordinator she set up the Department’s first Masters in English Literature by coursework, teaching on it till she left NUS for NIE in 1994. She has supervised numerous Honours academic research projects, Masters and PhD theses and been external examiner for MA and PhD theses from universities in the UK, Australia and Malaysia in her areas of expertise.
takoh@ntu.edu.sg
