FASS Staff Profile

DR GILBERT YEOH
SENIOR LECTURER
DEPARTMENT of ENGLISH, LINGUISTICS & THEATRE STUDIES

Appointment:
SENIOR LECTURER
Office:
AS5/03-18
Email:
ellyeohg@nus.edu.sg
Tel:
(65)6516 2229
Fax:
(65)6773 2981
Homepage:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellyeohg/
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Brief Introduction

I am a Singaporean who studied English Literature at Harvard University (BA summa cum laude 1991; PhD 1998). My areas of interest include twentieth-century modernist and postmodernist literature, and contemporary writing. My present research focuses on J. M. Coetzee. I also have a strong interest in art cinema and follow contemporary art cinema trends fervently.


Teaching Areas

My core teaching area centers on twentieth-century literature, especially modernist and postmodernist literature. I also teach an assortment of modules that include a module on film that introduces students to film aesthetics (GEC1017) and a module that familiarizes students with the classical and Christian foundations of Western civilization (EN2201).

Specifically, the modules I teach are:

  • GEC1017/GEH1053 Introduction to Film Art (Semester 1)
  • EN3224 The Twentieth Century (Semester 1)
  • ENC5238 Twentieth-Century Literature (Semester 1)
  • EN1101E/GEK1000 An Introduction to Literary Studies (Semester 2)
  • EN2201 Backgrounds to Western Literature and Culture (Semester 2)

 


 


Graduate Supervision

I will be supervising a few MA students in the near future.


Current Research

Negativity in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee (with a particular focus on Youth and Disgrace).


Research Interests

J. M. Coetzee

Literature and Ethics

Twentieth-Century Literature


Publications

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

  • “What Kind of Magic is This? How Come I Can’t Help Adore You?”: Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark as a Religious Film. Journal of Religion and Film 15.1 (2011).
  • "Primo Levi's Will to Humanism: Essentialist and Posthumanist Conceptions of the Human Being in Survival in Auschwitz." AUMLA: The Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association. 114 (2010): 73-98.
  • "Reading Ethics in J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello: The Globalizing World, the Normal and Damnation."  The English Academy Review: Southern African Journal of English Studies. 25.1 (2008): 77-88.
  • "Negotiating Foundations: Nation, Homeland and Land in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace." ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature. 35.3-4 (2004): 1-38.
  • "Beckett’s Persistent Humanism: Ethics and Epistemology in Molloy."  AUMLA: The Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association. 103 (2005): 109-35.
  • "From Caliban to Sycorax: Revisions of The Tempest in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John."  World Literature Written in English 33 and 34, No. 2 and No. 1 (93-94): 103-16.
  • "J. M. Coetzee and Samuel Beckett: Nothingness, Minimalism and Indeterminacy."  ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 31.4 (2000): 117-37.
  • "J. M. Coetzee and Samuel Beckett: Ethics, Truth-Telling and Self-Deception."  CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 44.4 (2003): 331-48.
  • "Love and Indifference in J. M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron."  Journal of Commonwealth Literature 38.3 (2003): 107-34.

Other Information

 

Conference Papers:

 

  • "Stupidity, Impasse and Negative Form: Youth as J. M. Coetzee's Beckettian Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." 15th Triennial ACLALS Conference, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, 6-11 June 2010.
  • “Bakhtin, Beckett and J. M. Coetzee’s Scrupulous Polyphony.” The Novel and its Borders, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, 8-10 July 2008.
  • “‘What Kind of Magic is This? How Come I Can’t Help Adore You?’: Faith and Religious Allegory in Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark.” European Cinema Research Forum 2007, Ohio State University, Columbus, 27-29 April 2007.
  • “Reading Ethics in J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello: The Globalizing World, the Normal and Damnation.” Forging the Local and the Global Conference, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 9-12 July 2006.

· “Blindly ‘Before the Law’: Guilt, Judgement and Grace in Disgrace.” European Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS) Triennial Conference 2005, Malta, 21-26 March 2005.

· “Sympathetic Identification and Polyphony in J. M. Coetzee.” Rhetoric, Politics, Ethics, Ghent, 21-23 April 2005.

· "Bricolage, the Odyssey and Post-Apartheid South Africa in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace." International Conference on Language and Nationhood: Confronting New Realities, Kuala Lumpur, 16-18 December 2003.

· “Going On in the ‘New South Africa’: Samuel Beckett in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace." Samuel Beckett Symposium, Sydney, 6-9 January 2003.

· “Charity and Amor Matris in J. M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron.” 12th Triennial Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) Conference, Canberra, 14-19 July 2001.

· “A Post-Poststructuralist Humanism?: J. M. Coetzee’s Critique of Poststructuralist Epistemology in Waiting for the Barbarians.” Perspectives on Altruism from the Humanities and the Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, 29 October 1999.

Teaching-related

 · “Teaching Film, Teaching Aesthetics.” FASS-CDTL Symposium: Grounded Experiences in University Teaching and Learning, National University of Singapore, 7-8 November 2003.

 

 


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