Walter S. H. Lim received his BA (Distinction), MA, and PhD from the University of Toronto (Canada). He is a faculty member in the Department of English, Linguistics & Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and has served as the chair of Literature and of Theatre Studies in the Department. He has a strong interest in Shakespeare and Milton as well as in the relationship between theological conviction and political expression in Early Modern England. Lim is also interested in the relationship between Asian American literature, diaspora, and globalization. He is the author of Narratives of Diaspora: Representations of Asia in Chinese American Literature (2013); John Milton, Radical Politics, and Biblical Republicanism (2006); and The Arts of Empire: The Poetics of Colonialism from Ralegh to Milton (1998). He is also the coeditor of a collection The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia (2010). Lim's book, Shakespeare and the Theater of Religious Conviction in Early Modern England (2023), has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. Lim is currently working on a book project on the cultural politics of the Anglophone Chinese diaspora, and another on John Milton and the English Reformation.
I welcome postgraduate students interested in any aspect of English Renaissance literature and Asian American literature. I can supervise theses on William Shakespeare and John Milton and have a keen interest in the relationship between religion and politics in the English Renaissance. I also have a keen interest in Chinese American literature and in comparative representations of the Anglophone Chinese diaspora.
Anglophone Chinese Diasporic Literature
John Milton and the English Reformation
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