ANG, SUSAN W L
Assistant Professor
PhD MA BA Camb.

Tel: 65-6516-3939
Office: AS5-03-11
E-mail: ellangwl {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/ellangwl/susanang.htm

Currently teaching:
• EN3223 Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture (Sem 1)
• EN3227 Romanticism (Sem 1)
• On study leave in Sem 2

Research interests:
• 19th Century Literature (English and America), especially the works of Anthony Trollope and Edith Wharton
• Children’s Literature (including work of Kipling, George Macdonald), etc
• Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Crime Fiction
• Certain 20th Century Writers: Peter Ackroyd, A.S. Byatt, Geoffrey Hill

BISHOP, RYAN
Associate Professor
PhD Rice

Tel: 65-6516-6633
Office: AS5-03-10
E-mail: ellrb {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellrb/

Currently teaching:
• EN3248 Topics in Film: The American Comedy (Sem 1)
• GEK1046 Introduction to Cultural Studies (Sem 1)
• EN4231 U.S. at War and Peace: Cold War Texts (Sem 2)
• EN5882 Topics in Cultural Studies (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Critical Theory
• Military Technology, Militarization
• Contemporary Fiction
• Visual Culture
• Modernism/Postmodernism
• Production and Legitimization of Knowledge

HOLDEN, PHILIP J
Associate Professor
PhD Br.Col., MA Florida, BA Lond.

Tel: 65-6516-4950
Office: AS5-05-26
E-mail: ellhpj {at} nus.edu.sg

Web pages:
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/ellhpj/index.htm
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellhpj/

Currently teaching:
• EN3269 Southeast Asian Literatures in English (Sem 1)
• EN5231 Asian and Other Modernities (Sem 1)
• EN3262 Postcolonial Literatures in English (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Gender Studies
• Autobiography and Life-Writing
• Postcolonial Studies

KOH, ADELINE MELISSA
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD MA Michigan-Ann Arbor, BA Melbourne

Tel: 65-6516-6041
Office: AS5-05-25
E-mail: ellamksl {at} nus.edu.sg

Currently teaching:
• EN4880A Modernism and Empire

Research interests:

LIM, WALTER S H
Associate Professor
PhD MA BA(Dist) Tor.

Tel: 65-6516-3937
Office: AS5-03-05
E-mail: elllimw {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/elllimw/

Currently teaching:
• EN3234/AS3234 Asian American Literature (Sem 1)
• EN4221 Topics in the Seventeenth Century (Sem 1)
• EN3221 The English Renaissance (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• The English Renaissance
• Asian American Literature
• Critical Theory: New Historicism
• Religion and Literature in the Renaissance

NARDIN, JANE
Visiting Senior Fellow
PhD State Uni of NY Buffalo, MA Northwestern, BA NYU

Tel: 65-6516-3920
Office: AS5-05-02
E-mail: ellnjb {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:

Currently teaching:
• EN4224 Topics in the Twentieth Century (Sem 1)
• EN3228 Women Novelists: 1750 - 1800 (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• 18th and 19th century British novelists, expecially Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope
• Modernist British prose fiction by women
• Late 18th century British literature and culture

PAN, DAPHNE
Associate Professor
PhD MA York(Can.), MSc Sur., BA(Hons) Univ of Singapore, DipPracHE Sur.

Tel: 65-6516-3927
Office: AS5-05-32
E-mail: ellpand {at} nus.edu.sg

Currently teaching:
• EN3223 Nineteenth Century Literature & Culture (Sem 1)

Research interests:
• Victorian Novel
• Local Fiction
• Educational Research and Development

PATKE, RAJEEV S
Associate Professor
DPhil MPhil Oxf, MA BA Poona

Tel: 65-6516-3086
Office: AS5-03-08
E-mail: ellpatke at} nus.edu.sg

Web pages:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellpatke/
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/ellpatke/Index.htm

Currently teaching:
• EN3266 Contemporary Irish Poetry (Sem 1)
• EN3246 Literature and the Other Arts (Sem 2)
• EN4241 Utopias and Dystopias (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Poetry and Painting
• Benjamin and Adorno
• Violence and the Arts

PHILLIPS, JOHN W
Associate Professor
PhD MA Sus., BA(Hons) N.Lond.

Tel: 65-6516-3054
Office: AS5-03-06
E-mail: elljwp {at} nus.edu.sg

Web pages:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/elljwp/
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/elljwp/index.htm

Currently teaching:
• GEK1046 Introduction to Cultural Studies (Sem 1)
• EN6102 Advanced Critical Reading (Sem 1)
• EN4242 Modern Critical Theory (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Critical Theory: Deconstruction, Poststructuralism, Psychoanalysis, Semiotics, Postcolonialism, Literary Theory, Aesthetics, Rhetoric
• Philosophy and Literature: Shakespeare, Justice, Phenomenology
• Modern Continental Thought: Modernism, Postmodernism
• Cultural Studies: Urbanism, Southeast Asia, Military Technology, Popular Culture, Crime Fiction, Television, Mass Media
• Disciplinarity: Institutions, Pedagogy, Cross-Disciplinarity

RICHARDSON, JOHN A
Associate Professor & Vice Dean (Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences)
PhD Manc., BA(Hons) E.Anglia, PGCE Manc.

Tel: 65-6516-3802/3922
Office: AS5-05-01
E-mail: ellrja {at} nus.edu.sg

Web pages:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellrja/
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/ellrja/home.htm

Currently teaching:
• EN1101E/GEK An Introduction to Literary Studies (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• 18th century literature
• The Scriblerians
• Literature and Slavery
• Literature and War

ROY, TANIA
Assistant Professor
PhD Duke, BA Bryn Mawr

Tel: 65-6516-6028
Office: AS5-05-07
E-mail: ellrt {at} nus.edu.sg

Currently teaching:
• EN1101/GEK1000 An Introduction to Literary Studies (Sem 1)
• EN5253 Writing in the Aftermath (Sem 1)
• EN3241 Literature and Psychoanalysis (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Frankfurt school, with a focus on the aesthetics of T.W. Adorno
• "Alternative modernism", with a focus on the cinema of Ritwik Ghatak, and contemporary visual arts in India
• Critical theory

SANKARAN, CHITRA
Associate Professor
PhD Lond., MA MPhil BA(Hons) Madr.

Tel: 65-6516-3935
Office: AS5-03-01
E-mail: ellcs {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellcs/

Currently teaching:
• EN1101E / GEK1000 An Introduction to Literary Studies (Sem 1)
• EN3245 Feminism: Text & Theory (Sem 2)
• EN5242 Women Novelists (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Feminist Theory and Writings
• Postcolonial Theory and Criticism
• Singapore Fiction and Poetry
• Comparative Literature
• Indian Fiction

STONE, JAMES W
Visiting Fellow
PhD UC Berkeley, BA Yale

Tel: 65-6516-4086
Office: AS5-06-01
E-mail: elljws {at}nus.edu.sg

Currently teaching:
• EN1101E / GEK1000 An Introduction to Literary Studies (Sem 1)
• EN4880A Usurpation and Authority (Sem 2)
• EN5244 Shakespeare and Literary Theory (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Shakespeare
• Renaissance Literature
• Literary theory and Gender Studies

THUMBOO, EDWIN
Emeritus Professor
PhD Univ of Singapore, BA(Hons) Univ of Malaya, MIAUPE, Public Service Star (Bar), Meritorious Service Medal

Tel: 65-6516-3913
Office: AS5-06-10
E-mail: ellthumb {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:
http://go.to/thumboo

TURNER, BARNARD
Senior Fellow
PhD Oregon, MA E.Anglia, BA(Hons) Br.Col.

Tel: 65-6516-3701
Office: AS5-05-15
E-mail: ellturne {at} nus.edu.sg

Web pages:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellturne/
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/ellturne/barturn.htm

Currently teaching:
• TS2231 History and Theory of Western Theatre I (Sem 1)
• TS3234 Performance and Popular Culture (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• 20th Century Narrative Theory
• Contemporary Poetry in English
• Postmodernist Classicism: Architecture and Literature
• Contemporary Germany: Culture and Cultural Relations
• Contemporary Euro/American Literary Relations

WEE, VALERIE
Assistant Professor
PhD Texas(Austin), MA BA(Hons) NUS

Tel: 65-6516-6046
Office: AS5-05-22
E-mail: ellweev {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellweev/

Currently teaching:
• EN2113 Reading Film and Cultural Texts (Sem 2)
• EN3242 History of Film (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Gender and/Or Ethnicity in Mass Media
• Construction of Cultural and Ethnic Identities in Film, Especially Asian Identities
• National Cinemas, Especially American and Asian
• Film History
• Construction of Death in Cultural Texts
• Science-Fiction Films

WHALEN-BRIDGE, JOHN
Associate Professor
PhD S.Calif, MA UC Davis, BA Conn.

Tel: 65-6516-6029
Office: AS5-05-23
E-mail: ellwbj {at} nus.edu.sg

Web pages:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/elljwb/
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/ellwbj/jwb/

Currently teaching:
• EN2112/AS2213 Reading American Texts (Sem 1)
• EN5232 Ideological Approaches to Literature (Sem 1)

Research interests:
• American Literature
• Politics and Literature
• Religion and Literature

YEOH, GILBERT G H
Senior Lecturer
PhD BA Harv.

Tel: 65-6516-2229
Office: AS5-03-18
E-mail: ellyeohg {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellyeohg/

Currently teaching:
• EN3224 The Twentieth Century (Sem 1)
• GEK2020 Introduction to Film Art (Sem 1)
• EN1101E / GEK1000 An Introduction to Literary Studies (Sem 2)
• EN2111 Reading British/World Texts (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• 20th century British and World Literature
• Postcolonial Literature
• Fiction and Criticism of J. M. Coetzee

YONG, LI LAN
Associate Professor
PhD Lond., BA(Hons) Oxf.

Tel: 65-6516-3929
Office: AS5-05-28
E-mail: ellyll {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/ellyll/

Currently teaching:
• TS4220 Shakespeare and Film (Sem 1)
• TS5101 Text and Performance (Sem 1)
• EN3242 Intercultural Theatre (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Shakespeare And Renaissance Drama
• Film And Media Studies
• Performance Studies