As a researcher, educator, facilitator and translator of theatre and performance, I am immensely interested in storytelling through shapeshifting. I received my MA in English from the University of Auckland, and PhD from the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. Prior to my appointment at the National University of Singapore, I was a postdoctoral fellow with the Asian Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin. My research interests include (post)colonialism, minor transnationalism, cultural diversity and dynamics of cross-cultural exchange in relation to the performing body.
I welcome postgraduate students interested in any aspect of my research areas, especially in probody aesthetics.
I have supervised the following PhD thesis:
'Making Theatre, Discerning Silences: Engagements with Social Change in Burma/Myanmar and Thailand' (2016) Matthew J Yoxall
* Probody aesthetics
* Ergonomics
* Critical somatics
* Performing objects
* Health and wellness in performance
* Body in performance pedagogy
* Intercultural theatre and performance
* Theatres of East Asia and the Pacific
BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
TRANSLATION
CONFERENCE PAPERS
PAPERS FOR SEMINAR, PUBLIC TALK, LECTURE
RECENT AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
HSS SEED Fund 2020–2021
Taiwan and Southeast Asia Exchange Fund 2020–2021
NUS/FASS Book Grant Award 2019-2020
NUS/FASS Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (FTEA) 2017-2018
NUS/FASS Writing Fellowship AY2016-2017 (Sem II)
NUS/FASS Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (FTEA) 2015-2016
NUS/FASS Start-up Grant (Agency and Aesthetics) 2013-2016