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.
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Introduction to Literary Studies
Critical Reading
Modern Poetry
Romanticism
Metafiction
Tragedy
Science Fiction
Utopias/Dystopias
Geoffrey Hill; Seamus Heaney
Modern poetry (Hill, Heaney, Auden); Modern novel (Barnes, Byatt, Ackroyd); children's literature; detective novels
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.