Faculty and Staff 
  Faculty  
Neil Murphy
Head, English| Associate Professor
CAMurphy@ntu.edu.sg
HSS-03-78
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) 6513 8085
Fax - (65) 6795 6525

Teaching and Research Interests

  • 20th/21st Century Irish literature
  • Modernism
  • Contemporary fiction
  • Aesthetics and literature
  • Narrative Theory

Brian Bergen-Aurand
Assistant Professor
Brian@ntu.edu.sg
HSS-03-60
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) 6790 5381
Fax - (65) 6795 6525

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Comparative Studies
  • Cinema Studies (Film Theory and Philsophy,Genre Theory,Third Cinema, National and Transnational Cinema)
  • Critical Theory
  • Post-Phenomenological Ethics
  • Gender/Sexuality/Embodiment

Samara Anne Cahill
Assistant Professor
sacahill@ntu.edu.sg
HSS-03-73
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) 6592 1534
Fax - (65) 6795 6525

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Proto-feminism and women's education
  • Gender and religious identity
  • Representations of religio-political difference
  • English fiction, 1660-1800

Shirley Chew
Visiting Professor
ShirleyChew@ntu.edu.sg
HSS-03-67
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) 6592 1527
Fax - (65) 6795-6525


Jocelyn Chua
Part time tutor
jocechua@gmail.com

School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) --
Fax - (65)

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Playwriting, Contemporary Performance Making, Actor Training Methodologies

Jennifer Megan Crawford
Assistant Professor
jmcrawford@ntu.edu.sg
HSS-03-69
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) 6592 1531
Fax - (65) 6795 6525

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Contemporary poetry and poetics
  • New Zealand and Australian literature
  • Creative, experimental and multimedia writing

Terence Richard Dawson
Associate Professor
TDawson@ntu.edu.sg
HSS-03-74
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) 6316 8915
Fax - (65) 6795 6525

Teaching and Research Interests

  • English Literature of the long eighteenth century (1688-1832)
  • Literature and the other arts (painting, music, etc.)
  • Literature and Jungian Psychology
  • European Literature

Angela Anne Frattarola
Assistant Professor
AAFrattarola@ntu.edu.sg
HSS-03-63
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) 6514 1042
Fax - (65) 6795 6525

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Modernism
  • Twentieth-Century British and Irish literature
  • Auditory Technologies and the Novel

Daniel Keith Jernigan
Assistant Professor
DJernigan@ntu.edu.sg
HSS-03-68
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) 6316 8834
Fax - (65) 6795 6525

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Modern British Literature
  • Drama, Critical Theory

Grace Chia Krakovic
Writer-in-Residence
gracechia@ntu.edu.sg
HSS-03-81
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) 6513 8143
Fax - (65) 6795 6525


Lee Hyunjung
Assistant Professor
hlee@ntu.edu.sg
HSS-03-70
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) 6513 8185
Fax - (65) 6795 6525

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Theatre Studies
  • Performance
  • Popular Culture

Sean Jeffrey Miller
Post Doctoral Fellow
SJMiller@ntu.edu.sg
HSS-03-77
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) 6513 8198
Fax - (65) 6795-6525

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Science studies
  • Posthumanism
  • Postmodernism
  • Modern and contemporary poetry
  • Popular culture

Chris Murray
Post Doctoral Fellow
C.Murray@ntu.edu.sg
HSS-03-57
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) 6592 1766
Fax - (65) 6795-6525

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Romanticism
  • Classics
  • Reception Studies
  • Irish Studies
  • Chinese Literature and Culture

Ng Yi-Sheng
Part time tutor
ng.yisheng@gmail.com

School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) --
Fax - (65)

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Singapore theatre
  • Singapore literature

Jessie Morgan-Owens
Assistant Professor
jmowens@ntu.edu.sg
HSS-03-71
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) 6592 1525
Fax - (65) 6795 6525

Teaching and Research Interests

  • 19th Century American literature, technology, and culture
  • Reform campaign literature
  • Photography theory and history
  • Travel photography

Bede Tregear Scott
Assistant Professor
btscott@ntu.edu.sg
HSS-03-64
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) 6790 6714
Fax - (65) 6795 6525

Teaching and Research Interests

  • South Asian Literature
  • African Literature
  • Latin American Literature
  • Affect Studies
  • Narrative Theory

Sim Wai Chew
Associate Professor
wcsim@ntu.edu.sg
HSS-03-66
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) 6316 8643
Fax - (65) 6795 6525

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Postcolonial literature and theory with an emphasis on Southeast Asian cultural production
  • British-Asian Literature
  • Contemporary Literature
  • Creative Writing

John Richard Tangney
Assistant Professor
jrtangney@ntu.edu.sg
HSS-03-75
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) 6592 1529
Fax - (65) 6795 6525

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Philosophy and Literature
  • History of Ideas
  • Shakespeare
  • Allegory

Walter Philip Wadiak
Assistant Professor
WPWadiak@ntu.edu.sg
HSS-03-72
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) 6790 6704
Fax - (65) 6795 6525

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Medieval literature
  • Theory of romance
  • Economic criticism
  • Political theology

Tamara Silvia Wagner
Associate Professor
tswagner@ntu.edu.sg
HSS-03-76
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) 6790 6744
Fax - (65) 6795 6525

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Victorian Literature and Culture
  • The Novel
  • Romanticism
  • Late-Eighteenth-Century Fiction
  • Colonial and Postcolonial Discourses

C. J. Wee Wan-ling
Associate Professor
cjwlwee@ntu.edu.sg
HSS-03-61
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) 6592-1529
Fax - (65) 6795-6525

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Globalisation, modernity and cultural production in East and Southeast Asia
  • Literature, theatre and contemporary visual art in Singapore; the state and culture in Singapore
  • Colonialism and nationalism in postcolonial literatures and cultures in English
  • Cultural and Postcolonial theory
  • Modernism in Euro-America and East Asia

Andrew Corey Yerkes
Assistant Professor
ACYerkes@ntu.edu.sg
HSS-03-58
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) 6790 6746
Fax - (65) 6795 6525

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Historical Materialism
  • Sociology of Culture
  • Ideological Critique
  • Modern and Postmodern narrative
  • Theories of identity
  • American Cultural History

Yong Wern Mei
Assistant Professor
WMYong@ntu.edu.sg
HSS-03-79
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) 6316 8826
Fax - (65) 6795 6525

Teaching and Research Interests

  • 20th century critical theory
  • Discourses of alterity
  • Georges Bataille

Priscilla Yong Su Lin
yongsl@ntu.edu.sg
HSS-03-86
Assistant Manager
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) 6592 1805
Fax - (65) 6795-6525


Suzana Abdul Tayep
suzanatayep@ntu.edu.sg
HSS-03-86 (6)
Executive Officer
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Tel - (65) 6514 1041
Fax - (65) 6795 6525