Publications

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED

• Shakespeare and the Theater of Religious Conviction in Early Modern England (Cham, CH: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
• Narratives of Diaspora: Representations of Asia in Chinese American Literature (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
• John Milton, Radical Politics, and Biblical Republicanism (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2006)
• The Arts of Empire: The Poetics of Colonialism from Ralegh to Milton (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1998)

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

• "The Education of the Diasporic Chinese Subject in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Among the White Moon Faces and Tash Aw's The Face," in Reading Malaysian Literature in English: Ethnicity, Gender, Diaspora, and Nationalism, ed. Mohammad A. Quayum (Singapore: Springer, 2021), 139-51.
• "National and Diasporic Identity in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Among the White Moon Faces and Tash Aw's Five Star Billionaire," in Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Companion, ed. Mohammad A. Quayum (Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2020), 181-96.
• "The Ghost of Shakespeare's Hamlet in Féng Xiǎogāng’s The Banquet and Sherwood Hu’s Prince of the Himalayas," in Shakespeare and Asia, ed. Jonathan Locke Hart (New York: Routledge, 2018), 161-76
• "Reflections on Richard Attenborough's Gandhi," Gandhi and His Soulforce Mission, ed. Nibir K. Ghosh and Sunita Rani Ghosh (New Delhi: Authors Press, 2013), 18-26
• "Buddhist Nationalism and Transnationalism in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Fifth Book of Peace and Russell Leong's Phoenix Eyes," in The City and the Ocean: Journeys, Memory, Imagination, ed. Jonathan White and I-Chun Wang (Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2012), 229-47
• "Ethnicity and the Southeast Asian Diaspora in Li-Young Lee's The Winged Seed," in Narrating Race: Asia, (Trans)nationalism, Social Change, ed. Robbie B. H. Goh (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011), 69-88
• "John Milton, Orientalism, and the Empires of the East in Paradise Lost," in The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia, ed. Debra Johanyak and Walter S. H. Lim (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 203-35
• Introduction, "The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia--Framing the Issues," in The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia, ed. Debra Johanyak and Walter S. H. Lim (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 1-21 (sole author)
• "Prose Style," in Milton in Context, ed. Stephen B. Dobranski (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 94-104
• "China, India, and the Empire of Commerce in Milton's Paradise Lost," in Sinographies: Writing China, ed. Eric Hayot, Haun Saussy, and Steven G. Yao (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008), 115-39
• "Writing the Chinese and Southeast Asian Diasporas in Russell Leong's Phoenix Eyes," in Asian Diasporas: Cultures, Identities, Representation, ed. Robbie B.H. Goh and Shawn Wong (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004), 149-60
• "Under Eastern Eyes: Ghosts and Cultural Haunting in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and China Men," in Crossing Oceans: Reconfiguring American Literary Studies in the Pacific Rim, ed. Noelle Brada-Williams and Karen Chow (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004), 155-63
• "Epic, Colonialism, Empire: A Reading of Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained," The Silent Word: Textual Meaning and the Unwritten, ed. Robert Young, Ban Kah Choon, and Robbie Goh (Singapore: Singapore University Press and World Scientific Publishing: 1998), 45-57
  

EDITORIAL WORK ON BOOKS

• Edited (with Debra Johanyak) The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

• “China, Malaysia, and Millennial Diasporic Identity in Tash Aw’s The Face and Five Star Billionaire,” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 57,5 (2021): 593-606
• "Patriarchal Authority and the Southeast Asian Chinese Diaspora in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Passports and Other Lives," Journal of Transnational American Studies 10.2 (2019-20): 91-105
• “National and Diasporic Identity in Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s Among the White Moon Faces and Tash Aw’s Five Star Billionaire,” Asiatic 12, 2 (2018): 9-22
• "Writing Shanghai and the Return to China in Tash Aw’s Five Star Billionaire," Journal of English Language and Literature 63, 1 (2017): 79-94
• "Postcolonial History and National Identity in Shirley Lim's Among the White Moon Faces and Li-Young Lee's The Winged Seed," Asiatic 8,1 (2014): 114-30
• "Forgetting and Re-membering: Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Li-Young Lee, and the Southeast Asian Diaspora," Re-Markings 10,2 (2011): 27-35
• "Surety and Spiritual Commercialism in The Merchant of Venice," Studies in English Literature 50,2 (2010): 355-82
• "Class, Labor, and Immigrant Subjectivity in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine and Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Among the White Moon Faces," Journeys 10 (2009): 4-28
• "Networking and the Cultural Politics of Transnationalism in Russell Leong's Phoenix Eyes and Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Among the White Moon Faces," Review of American Literature 21 (2009): 28-39
• "Some Musings on Cultural Responses to Asian American Literature in Singapore," Amerasia Journal 34:2 (2008): 137-44
• "Amy Tan and the Mappings of Historical and Cultural Identity in Chinese American Literature," Review of American Literature 20 (2007): 16-30
• "Knowledge and Belief in The Winter's Tale," Studies in English Literature 41,2 (Spring 2001): 317-34; reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism 68 (2002): 352-61
• "James I, the Royal Prerogative, and the Politics of Authority in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale," The Upstart Crow: A Shakespeare Journal 21 (2001): 27-38
• "Radical Politics in Ponet's A Shorte Treatise of Politike Power and Milton's The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates," Prose Studies 23 (2000): 101-20
• "Republican Politics, Constitutionalism, and the Colonial Imperative in Milton's Observations Upon the Articles of Peace," Milton Studies (Korea) 10 (2000): 373-98
• "Figuring Justice: Imperial Ideology and the Discourse of Colonialism in Book V of The Faerie Queene and A View of the Present State of Ireland," Renaissance and Reformation 19 (1995): 45-70
• "Representing the Other: Othello, Colonialism, Discourse," The Upstart Crow: A Shakespeare Journal 13 (1993): 57-78
• "Adam, Eve, and Biblical Analogy in Paradise Lost," Studies in English Literature 30 (1990): 115-31

SHORTER ARTICLES/COMMENTS IN JOURNAL

• “Antitrinitarianism” for Encyclopedia for Renaissance Philosophy, ed. Marco Sgarbi (Springer Nature Switzerland 2021)
• “John Ponet” for Encyclopedia for Renaissance Philosophy, ed. Marco Sgarbi (Springer International Publishing 2017)
• "Mo Yan, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and Red Sorghum," Re-Markings 12,1 (2013): 7-15
• "Suchen Christine Lim," The Routledge Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literatures in English, ed. L.W. Connolly, Eugene Benson, and D.G. Killam, 2 vols. (London and New York: Routledge, 1994), 1:887
• "R(A) Movies and the Politics of Audience Response," Commentary: Civil Society 11 (1993): 48-50

BOOK REVIEWS

• Alison A. Chapman, The Legal Epic: “Paradise Lost” and the Early Modern Law (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2017) (forthcoming from Christianity and Literature)
• David Jasper, Geng Youzhuang, and Wang Hai, ed., A Poetics of Translation: Between English and Chinese Literature (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2016), in Religion and Literature 49,1 (2017): 219-22
• A. Robert Lee, ed. China Fictions/English Language: Literary Essays in Diaspora, Memory, Story (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008), in Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (December 2009): 481-84
• John T. Shawcross, The Development of Milton's Thought: Law, Government, and Religion (Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2008), in Christianity and Literature 59,4 (2010): 714-17
• John J. McGavin, Theatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland (Hampshire and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007), in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 15,2 (2010): 263
• Jeffrey F. L. Partridge, Beyond Literary Chinatown (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007), in Amerasia Journal 36,1 (2010): 166-69
• Michael Lieb, Theological Milton: Deity, Discourse and Heresy in the Miltonic Canon (Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2006), in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 13 (2008): 520-21
• Peter DeSa Wiggins, Donne, Castiglione, and the Poetry of Courtliness (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000), in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 10 (2005): 531-33
• Balachandra Rajan, Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999), in Asian Journal of Social Science 30.1 (2002): 179-81
• David Porter, Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001), in Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 24 (2002): 195-97
• David J. Baker, Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question of Britain (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 6 (2001): 112-13

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• "The Marriage of Adam and Eve: Theologizing Order and Disorder in Milton's Paradise Lost," presented at The 17th International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct 20-21, 2023 (Keynote Lecture)
• “Capitalistic Dreams and Material Culture in Tash Aw’s Five Star Billionaire,” English Language and Literature Association of Korea,” presented at “The Interface of Literature and the Economy,” Daejeon Convention Center, Daejeon, South Korea, July, 13-15 2016 (By Invitation)
• “Hamlet in the Far East: Religion on the Edge in Sherwood Hu’s Prince of the Himalayas,” presented at “Shakespeare at the Edges,” “The Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association,” November 17-19, 2016, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
• Ghostly Haunting and Kinship Ties in Sherwood Hu's Prince of the Himalayas and Feng Xiaogang's The Banquet," presented at "Shakespeare Shanghai Conference--Translation, Transcultural and Global Perspectives," School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiaotong University, PRC, 12-13 March 2016 (By Invitation)
• "Church and Temple in Milton's The Reason of Church Government," presented at the Eleventh International Milton Symposium at University of Exeter, United Kingdom, July 20-24, 2015
• "The Journeys of The Tempest and The Winter's Tale," presented at the Conference, "Shakespearean Journeys: The Inaugural Conference of the Asian Shakespeare Association," Taipei, Taiwan, May 15-18, 2014
• "Shakespearean Adaptation and the World's Religions," Seminar Leader (with Dr. Kenneth Graham), Shakespearean Association of America Forty-First Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 28-30, 2013
• "When Ghosts Cross Cultural Boundaries: From Shakespeare's Hamlet to Feng Xiaogang's The Banquet," presented at seminar "Shakespearean Adaptations and the World's Religions," Shakespearean Association of America Forty-First Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 28-30, 2013
• "Milton, Polygamy, and the Orient," presented (on my behalf by Dr. Kenneth J. E. Graham) at the "Tenth International Milton Symposium," Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo (Japan), August 20-24, 2012
• "Bharati Mukherjee and North American Immigrant Subjectivities," presented at the "20th Annual American Literature Association on American Literature," Westin Copley Place, Boston, May 21-24, 2009
• "Milton's Asia, Paradise Lost, and Orientalism in Early Modern England," presented at the Conference, "Adaptation and Appropriation of Medieval and Early Modern English Literature," Korea University, Seoul, Korea, November 7-8, 2008 (By Invitation)
• "The Politics of Adoption in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Among the White Moon Faces," presented at the "19th Annual American Literature Association Conference on American Literature," Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, May 22-25, 2008
• "The Politics of Promoting/Marketing Asian American Literature in Asia," presented in roundtable discussion at the "19th Annual American Literature Association Conference on American Literature," Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, May 22-25, 2008
• "War and Peace: The Resolution of Conflict in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Fifth Book of Peace," presented at the Conference, "The United States after September 11: Changes and Continuities," Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China, October 20-21, 2007
• "Ethnicity and the Southeast Asian Diaspora in Li-Young Lee's The Winged Seed," presented at the Conference, "Narrating Race Between Nationalisms and Globalizations," National University of Singapore, July 11-14, 2006
• "Producing Multiculturalism and Writing Transnationalism in Russell Leong's Phoenix Eyes," presented at the "17th Annual American Literature Association Conference on American Literature," Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, May 25-28, 2006
• "Representing India and Reading Early Modern English Colonialism: The Examples of John Donne and John Milton," presented at the "International Association of University Professors of English" 2004 Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, August 8-14, 2004 (By Invitation)
• "Jacobean Rule and Early Modern Orientalism in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra" presented at the Conference, "Colonial, Imperial, and Post-Colonial Shakespeares," Kent State University, Ohio, November 14-16, 2002
• "Writing the Chinese and Southeast Asian Diasporas in Russell Leong's Phoenix Eyes" presented at the Conference, "Asian Diasporas and Cultures: Globalization, Hybridity, Intertextuality," National University of Singapore, September 5-7, 2001
• "Representing China: English Travel Narratives, Epic, and the Archaeology of Desire" presented at the Conference, "Between Empires: 'Orientalism' Before 1600," Trinity College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, July 12-15, 2001
• "Ghosts, Revenge, and Unfinished Businesses in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior" presented at the Conference, "American Literary Studies in Asia: Transnational Teaching and Research," University of Hong Kong, January 5-7, 2001
• "San Francisco, Los Angeles, and the Construction of Social and Cultural Identities in Russell Leong's The Country of Dreams and Dust" presented at the Conference, "City as Text: Urban Topographies and Critical Interventions," National University of Singapore, September 8-10, 1999
• "Figuring Justice: Radical Politics in Ponet's A Shorte Treatise of Politike Power and Milton's The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates" presented at "The Sixth International Milton Symposium," University of York, UK, July 18-23, 1999
• "James I, the Royal Prerogative, and the Politics of Authority: A Historicist Reading of The Winter's Tale" presented at the fourth biennial conference of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association, "Material Shakespeare: Teaching, History, Performance," University of Queensland, July 11-15, 1998
• "The Poetics of Justice and Imperial Ideology in Book V of The Faerie Queene and A View of the Present State of Ireland" presented at the Yale Center for British Art, Yale University, Connecticut, 26-28 September, 1996
• "Space May Produce New Worlds: Milton's Anti-Imperial Narratives in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained" presented at the conference, "Meaning as Production: The Role of the Unwritten," National University of Singapore, September 7-9, 1995
• "The Example of Donne's 'To His Mistress Going to Bed': Women, Bodies, Colonialism," presented at the Symposium on the Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region," "A Community of Islands," National University of Singapore, November 15-19, 1993
• "Possessing the Text: Anne Bradstreet's Rebel Muse" presented at the annual meeting of The Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 14-16, 1991
• "What Happens When God Doesn't Speak in Samson Agonistes?" presented at the Fourth International Milton Symposium, The University of British Columbia, British Columbia, August 4-10, 1991
• "Typology, Accommodation, and Critique in Paradise Regained" presented at the Seventh Citadel Conference on Literature, "The Poetry, Drama, and Prose of the Renaissance and Middle Ages," The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina, February 28-March 2, 1991
• Chair and Discussant, "Representing the Other: Gender and Cultural Discourses in Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Maxine Hong Kingston," at the annual meeting of The Midwest Modern Language Association, Kansas City, Missouri, November 1-3, 1990
• "Educating the Post-Modern Teacher: Young and Older Faculty Facing Gender Issues in General Education" presented at the National Women's Studies Association Pre-Conference, "Re-gendering Teacher Education," University of Akron, Ohio, June 20, 1990
• "The Example of Richard II: The New Historicism and the Politicization of Theater" presented at the Ohio Shakespeare Conference, "Performance and Interpretation: Interpretation and Performance," Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, March 8-10, 1990
• "Cleopatra's Court: Gender and Ambiguity in Antony and Cleopatra" presented at the Ohio Shakespeare Conference, "Ideological Approaches to Shakespeare," The University of Akron, Ohio, March 2-4, 1989

PAPERS FOR SEMINAR, PUBLIC TALK, LECTURE

• "Some Thoughts on the Cultural Politics of Family in Hamlet," presented at Taiwan National University, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct 19, 2023 (Invited Colloquium Lecture)
• “Representing the Southeast-Asian Chinese Diasporic Family in Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Tash Aw,” presented at “The State of Malaysian Literature in the 21st Century: An Asiatic Symposium,” Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia, November 5, 2017 (By Invitation)
• Roundtable, 2016 JELL Forum, "The Interface of Literature and Economy," December 14 2016, Daejeon, Korea (Hosted by The Journal of English Language and Literature) (By Invitation)
• "Dying Unshriven: Repentance and Confession in Shakespeare's Hamlet," presented at "Waterloo Renaissance Workshop," University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, November 13, 2014 (By Invitation)
• 2 Roundtable talks at "2014 Summer Institute in Asian American Studies: Empire Reconsidered," National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, July 29-31, 2014 (By invitation)
• “Singapore—City-state, Multiculturalism, and the Challenges of Globalization,” presented at University College, University of Toronto, April 1, 2013
• "Theater for One's God: The Performance of Conviction in Milton's Samson Agonistes," presented at "Fifth International Conference of Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies," National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan, November 4-5, 2011 (Invited Lecture)
• "English Studies in Singapore and the Age of Globalization," presented at "The Fifth Deans' Forum on the Teaching of English Majors," Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing, China, April 21-24 2011 (Keynote Lecture)
• "Buddhism, Transnationalism, and Asian American Cultural Politics," presented at "The City and the Ocean: Urbanity, (Im)migration, Memory, and Imagination," 2010 International Conference, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan, October 16-17, 2010 (Invited Lecture)
• "Reading Asian American Literature from Ohio to Singapore - Notes from a Comparative Perspective," presented at Ohio State University, September 24, 2009 (Invited Lecture)
• "From Nationalization to Diaspora: Food Linguistics in Chinese American Literature and the Evolution of a Literary Tradition," presented at Seoul National University (South Korea), November 10-13, 2003 (Invited Lecture)
• "Judges, Violence, and the Idea of the English Nation in Milton's Samson Agonistes," presented at Seoul National University (South Korea), November 10-13, 2003 (Invited Lecture)
• "Republican Politics, Constitutionalism, and the Colonial Imperative in Milton's Observations Upon the Articles of Peace" presented as Plenary Lecture at the Conference, "Rethinking Milton Studies in the 21st Century," Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, May 26-27, 2000
• "Knowledge and Belief in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale" presented at Kent Medieval Colloquium, Kent State University, Ohio, November 12, 1999
• "Writing the Asian American Immigrant Experience in San Francisco and Los Angeles" presented at Convocation Lecture, Hiram College, Ohio, November 9, 1999
• "Figuring America: Shakespeare, Native Americans, and the Colonial Imperative" presented at Convocation Lecture, Hiram College, Ohio, May 22, 1995
• "Theory as Empowerment" presented at "Symposium on Gender and Pedagogy," Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio, February 6, 1991
• Participated in The Midwest Faculty Seminar, "Feminism(s) and the Female Subject," The University of Chicago, Illinois, October 12-14, 1989
• Invited by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to participate in a Seminar on the Asian experience in Canada and on interpreting the societies of the Pacific Rim countries.  Toronto, Ontario, February 1987