FASS Staff Profile

DR ANG WAN LING, SUSAN
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT of ENGLISH, LINGUISTICS & THEATRE STUDIES

Appointment:
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Office:
AS5/03-11
Email:
ellangwl@nus.edu.sg
Tel:
65163939
Fax:
Homepage:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellangwl/
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Brief Introduction

Education:

Singapore Chinese Girls' School
(Singapore) (1971-81)

Hwa Chong Junior College
(Singapore) (1982-83)

Downing College, University of Cambridge
(United Kingdom)
        -- B.A. (Hons.) (First class) (1987)
        -- M.A. (1993)
        -- Ph. D. (1993)

 

Awards:

Visiting Appointments:

-- Visiting Scholar, Downing College, Cambridge, Michaelmas Term, 1997

-- Visiting Scholar, Downing College, Cambridge, Michaelmas Term, 1998

-- Visiting Bye-Fellow, Newnham College, Cambridge, Jan-Dec 2000

 


Awards/Grants:

-- Undergraduate Teaching Award in English
    (Public Service Commission Singapore) (1984-7)

-- F.W. Bradbrook Scholarship
    (Downing College, Cambridge) (1987)

-- Overseas Graduate Scholarship
    (National University of Singapore) (1987-91)

-- Bye-Fellowship, Downing College, Cambridge
    (1989-90)

-- Commonwealth Fellow, 2000.

Teaching Awards

 

 

Date of Award   

Award Name   

  • 1
  • 05/2014

Outstanding Educator Award

  • 2
  • 03/2008
  • NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award Honour Roll
  • 3
  • 03/2007
  • Annual Teaching Excellence Award 2007
  • 4
  • 11/2006
  • Faculty Excellent Teacher Awards 2006
  • 5
  • 03/2006
  • Annual Teaching Excellence Award (2006)
  • 6
  • 11/2005
  • Faculty Excellent Teacher Award (2005)
  • 7
  • 11/2005
  • Annual Teaching Excellence Award (2005)
  • 8
  • 11/2004
  • Faculty Excellent Teacher Award (2004)
  • 9
  • 03/2004
  • Annual Teaching Excellence Award (2004)
  • 10
  • 11/2003
  • Faculty Excellent Teacher Award (2003)
  •  
  • 11  03/2003                           Annual Teaching Excellence Award (2003)
  •  
  • 12  11/2002                            NUS Excellent Teachers (2002)
  •  
  • 13  11/2000                            Teaching Excellence Award (2000) (Faculty)
  •  
  • 14  11/1999                            Teaching Excellence Award (1999) (Faculty)
  •  
  • 15  11/1999                            Staff Achievement Award (Teaching)
  •  
  • 16  11/1997                            Teaching Excellence Award (1997) (Faculty)

Teaching Areas

Introduction to Literary Studies

Critical Reading

Modern Poetry

Romanticism

Metafiction

Tragedy

Science Fiction

Utopias/Dystopias


Current Research

Geoffrey Hill; Seamus Heaney


Research Interests

Modern poetry (Hill, Heaney, Auden); Modern novel (Barnes, Byatt, Ackroyd); children's literature; detective novels


Publications

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED

  • 1.                    Ang, S W L, J.R.R. Tolkien: Master of the Rings, Icon books, Cambridge,  2002.  176 pp.

    2.                    Ang,  S  W  L,  The Widening World of Children's Literature,        United  Kingdom:  Macmillan,

    1999.  200 pp.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

  • 1.                    Ang, S W L, "'Dear Shade': Louis MacNeice Selected and Recollected".  In Selected Poems

    from Modernism to Now, ed. Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec and Helene Aji, 5-22.        Cambridge:

    Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.  17 pp.

    2.                    Ang, S W L, "George MacDonald and 'Ethicized' Gothic".   In George MacDonald: Literary

    Heritage and Heirs, ed. Roderick McGillis, 183-200.   Wayne, Pennyslvania: Zossima Press, 2008.  18 pp.

    3.                    Ang, S W L, "The Pindarics as Enigma Variations.  Pavese and Hill in formal conversation".  in European Voices in the Poetry of Yeats and Hill.  Eds. Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec, Ineke Bokting and Elizabeth Muller.  Peter Lang, 2015.

     

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

  • 1.                    Ang,  S  W  L,  "Dogmata,  Catastrophe  and  the  Renaissance  of  Fantasy  in  Diana  Wynne

    Jones".  The Lion and the Unicorn, (2009).  (United States).

    2.                    Ang, S W L, ""OOOO that Eliot-Joycean Rag": A Fantasia upon Reading English Music".

    Connotations, Vol. 15, no. 1-3  (2007): 215-242.  (Germany).

    3.                    Ang,  S  W  L,  "“Misguided,  misconceiving,  mis-inspired”:  Brand  and  the  matter of  words".

    Ibsen Studies, 12, no. 1  (2012): 27-55.  (Norway).

    4.                    Ang, S W L, "'The Bedrock of Gravity: Pondering the Grammar of Fall in Geoffrey Hill'".

    Texas Studies in Literature and Language, no. 55.1  (2011).  (United States).

    5.          Ang, S W L, ""Untenable Belonging": The problematics of possession in Geoffrey Hill's work". Literary Imagination (forthcoming)

     

SHORTER ARTICLES/COMMENTS IN JOURNAL

  • 1. Ang, S W L, "Lim, Catherine".  Contemporary Novelists, 6th ed.  (1996).  (United States).

    2. Ang, S W L, "Zelazny, Roger".  Contemporary Novelists, 6th ed.  (1996).  (United States).

CONFERENCE PAPERS

  • 1.                    Ang, S W L, "Dogmata, Catastrophe and the Renaissance of Fantasy; or 'It's getting a little

    stuffy and mouse-ish in here'".  Diana Wynne Jones (2009)  (Diana Wynne Jones,  3 -  5 Jul

    2009, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom)

    2.                    Ang, S W L, "Self-Inspiring Self-Deceiver: Geoffrey Hill's 'Version' of Brand".   Geoffrey Hill

    and His Contexts (2008)   (Geoffrey Hill and His Contexts,   2 -   3 Jul 2008, Keble College,

    Oxford, United Kingdom)

    3.                    Ang, S W L, ""Dear Shade": Louis MacNeice Selected and Recollected".   Selected Poems

    from Modernism Till Now (2008)   (Selected Poems from Modernism Till Now, 20 - 22 Mar

    2008, Caen, France)

    4.                    Ang, S W L, "'The Pindarics as Enigma Variations: Hill and Pavese in formal conversation'".

    European Paths and Voices in the Poetry of Yeats and Hill (Invited paper)  ( 6 -  7 Sep 2013,

    Institut Catholique de Paris, Paris, France)

    5.                    Ang, S W L, "'Composing and De-composing the voice: Geoffrey Hill’s Song of Himself.'".

    Voice and Poetry (25 - 27 Jun 2010, University of Chichester, Chichester, United Kingdom)

    6.                    Ang,  S  W  L,  "An  Alternation  Upon  Reality:  Philip  Kerr's  A  Philosophical  Investigation".

    Visions of the Future - Then and Now (15 - 17 Apr 2010, Istanbul, Turkey)

OTHERS

  • 1.                    Ang, S W L, "The Cambridge Guide to Children's Literature (ed. Victor Watson).  96 entries

    totalling  27150 words  contributed  to  this  work".    United  Kingdom:  Cambridge  University

    Press, 2001.

    2.                    Ang, S W L, "28 Individual  Author  Entries  in  Webster's  Encarta  Multimedia  Encylopaedia

    (Electronic Publications)".  -blank-.  United Kingdom, 1995.

    3.                    Ang, S W L, "Entry on Antonia Forest, in Dictionary of British Women Writers".    -blank-,

    255-256.  London: Routledge, 1989.


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