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Assistant Professor
of
English
Ph.D. 2006 (Literature) Duke University; B.A. 1997 (English, Hons I) University of Queensland;
B.P.D. 1994 (Architecture) University of Melbourne
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Areas of Research/Interest: Asia-Pacific literature and cultural studies; postcolonial studies; spatial and architectural
theory; comparative modernities; feminist and critical theory
Select Publications:
The New Asian City: Space, Urban Form and Three-dimensional Fictions. Book project.
"The Way Ahead: The Politics and Poetics of Singapore's Developmental Landscape." Contemporary Literature 49.4 (Winter 2008): 683-711.
"Seoul and Singapore as 'New Asian Cities': Literature, Urban Transformation and the Concentricity of Power." Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique. Forthcoming.
"Imperial Mimicry, Modernisation Theory and the Contradictions of Postcolonial South Korea." Postcolonial Studies 10.2 (2007): 171-190.
"America Studies the Rest of the World." Review of Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies. Eds. Masao Miyoshi and H.D. Harootunian. Southern Review (Australia) 37.2 (2004): 107-110.
Affiliations: Modern Language Association; American Comparative Literature Association
Fellowships/Honors: Bass Instructorship (Duke) 2004-05; Korea Foundation Fellowship, 2002; Janet B. Chiang
Award (Duke) 2001; University Medal (U of Queensland) 1997.
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