Brief Introduction Top

Educational History: B.A (Hons) Oxford, PhD London

Administration: Deputy Head (Theatre Studies), Department of English Language and Literature

Teaching Areas Top

Shakespeare: editors, critics, audiences
Shakespeare and film
Intercultural theatre
Major playwrights of the 20th Century
Text and Performance
Professional Theatre Internship

Current Research Top

The Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive is a collaborative, multilingual online archive of performance materials. It is supported by several government and academic bodies, with contributions from theatre companies in East and Southeast Asia.

A|S|I|A is designed to share Shakespeare performances in East / Southeast Asia with practitioners, scholars, teachers and general audiences through the medium of the internet. Its primary features aim to create a comparative context and intercultural approach to watching and studying Asian Shakespeare performance:
• A parallel language website in English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean
• Streaming videos of full production recordings,
• accompanied by original scripts and script translations.
• A searchable database of detailed data on each production prepared in English, Chinese and Japanese by local scholars in Shakespeare and performance.
• A personal workspace for bookmarking videos and saving searches in text form; and
• a forum where members can exchange views, news, and information.

Membership is free, open to the public, and gives full access to the website’s functions.

★ The second edition of A|S|I|A with 22 productions from Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and the Philippines is now online at www.a-s-i-a-web.org

Research Interests Top

Shakespeare and intercultural performativity: film, theatre, popular culture, digital media
Texts and translation in performance
Cross-media/cultural performance
Digital humanities, digital archiving

Publications Top

EDITORIAL WORK ON BOOKS

• Shakespeare in Asia: Contemporary Performance, eds. Dennis Kennedy and Yong Li Lan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
   
• Macbeth. Times Shakespeare Editions, edited with annotations and exercises. General editor R. S. Patke, illustrator Gwee Li Sui. Singapore: Federal Publications, 1999. 379pp.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

• “Intercultural rhythm in Yohangza's Dream.” In Shakespeare Beyond English: A Global Experiment, eds. Susan Bennett and Christie Carson. Forthcoming from Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
   
• “Tang Shu-wing's Titus and the acting of violence.” In Shakespeare Beyond English: A Global Experiment, eds. Susan Bennett and Christie Carson. Forthcoming from Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
  
  
• “Shakespeare Elsewhere: Ong Keng Sen’s intercultural trilogy.” In Shakespeare in Asia: Contemporary Performance, eds. Dennis Kennedy and Yong Li Lan, 188-216. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  
  
• “Why Shakespeare?” Introduction co-written with Dennis Kennedy to Shakespeare in Asia: Contemporary Performance, eds. Dennis Kennedy and Yong Li Lan, 1-24. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  
  
• “Spectacle and Shakespeare on Film.” In Shakespeare’s World/World Shakespeares: The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Brisbane, 2006, eds. Richard Fotheringham, Christa Jansohn and R. S. White, 182-192. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008.
  
  
• “Romeos and Juliets, Local / Global.” In Shakespeare’s Local Habitations, eds. Krystyna Kujawinska Courtney and R. S. White, 135-154. Lodz: Lodz University Press, 2007.
  
  
• “Shakespeare and the Fiction of the Intercultural.” In The Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare and Performance, eds. Barbara Hodgdon and W. B. Worthen, 527-549. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture; Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
  
  
• “Material Magic in The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest.” In Shakespeare: Readers, Audiences, Players, eds. R. S. White, Charles Edelman and Christopher Wortham, 272-286. Nedlands, Australia: University of Western Australia Press, 1998.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• "Of Spirits and Sundry Other Phenomena in Intercultural Shakespeare: Text and Performance." Anglistica 15.2 (2011), Shakespeare in the Media: Old and New.
  
  
• “After Translation.” Shakespeare Survey 62 (2009): 283-295.
  
  
• “Theatricality, Authority, and God-likeness in Cymbeline.” Journal of Theatre and Drama 7/8 (2001-2002; published March 2006): 83-94.
  
  
• "Ong Keng Sen's Desdemona, Ugliness, and the Intercultural Performative.” Theatre Journal 56.2 (May 2004): 251-273.
  
  
• “’You that way, we this way’: Spectatorship and Song in Kenneth Branagh’s Love's Labour's Lost.” Co-written with Felicia Chan. Refractory 5 (2004).
   
• “Shakespeare as Virtual Event.” Theatre Research International 28.1 (March 2003): 46-60.
  
  
• “Returning to Naples: Seeing the End in Shakespeare Film Adaptation.” Literature/Film Quarterly 29. 2, ‘Shakespeare Century’ (April 2001): 128-134. Re-published in:
  
  • Literature/Film Reader: Issues of Adaptation, eds. Jim Welsh and Peter Lev. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007.
  
  • Shakespeare Into Film, eds. James M. Welsh, Richard Vela, John C. Tibbetts. New York: Checkmark Books, 2002.
  
  
• “The Staging of Nostalgia at Beauty World.” Co-written with Robin Loon. Hybridity: Journal of Cultures, Texts and Identities 1. 2 (2001): 103-21.
  
  
• “’The very painting of your fear’: Roman Polanski’s Macbeth.” Shakespeare Jahrbuch 133 (1997): 109-117.

RECENT INVITED PAPERS FOR SEMINAR, PUBLIC TALK, LECTURE

• 'After Lives of Shakespeare in East Asia.' BBC3 The Essay: Episode 5. Shakespeare Around the Globe, 18 May 2012.
  
  
• Lecture for Shakespeare’s Globe Education workshop It is the East: Eastern Asia, 17 March 2012, London, U.K.
   
• 'Shakespeare in Asia.' Performing Old Emotions on the New Fortune Stage, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, University of Western Australia, 15-17 September 2011, Perth, Australia.
  
  
• 'Asian Shakespeare and Intercultural Performance.' Panel leader and paper for the IX World Shakespeare Congress, 17-21 July 2011, Prague, Poland.
  
  

Other Appointments, Conference Organisation Top

• Member, Executive Committee of the International Shakespeare Association (2012- )

• Co-organiser with Dennis Kennedy and John Phillips of Shakespeare Performance in the New Asias (National University of Singapore, June 2002), a workshop of scholars in Asian Shakespeare performance.