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Agnes S.K. YEOW teaches at the English Department, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya. Her research interests include Environmental Humanities and ecocritical readings of Malaysian Literature.
Email: agnesyw@um.edu.my
Amy Thanh Ai TONG is a freelance writer and researcher based on unceded Gadigal land in Australia. She recently completed her master’s dissertation entitled “(Un)Imagining the War in the Vietnamese diaspora”, which focuses on the poetic expressions of Vietnamese women in the American and Australian diaspora as a way of rectifying their perceived silence in the realm of cultural and knowledge production.
Email: amy.tong@sydney.edu.au
Chih-Ming WANG is associate research fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He works in the areas of transpacific American literature and inter-Asia cultural studies. He is chief-editor of Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies and the author of Transpacific Articulations: Student Migration and the Remaking of Asian America (2013). He also co-edited with Yu-Fang Cho a special issue on “The Chinese Factor”
for American Quarterly (2017). His latest publication is Re-Articulation: Trajectories of Foreign Literature Studies in Taiwan (2021).
Email:wchimin@hotmail.com
Christian Jil R. BENITEZ teaches Filipino at Ateneo de Manila University where he earned an AB-MA in Filipino literature (2016/2018). Hailed as Poet of the Year 2018 by the Commission on the Filipino Language, his critical and creative works on time, tropicality, and materiality have appeared in Katipunan, Kritika Kultura, Res Rhetorica, and eTropic journal, among others. He lives in Rizal, the Philippines.
Email: cbenitez@ateneo.edu
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P a g e 237 |58.2 Ciara Mandulee MENDIS holds an M.A. in English Studies and is employed as Assistant Director (Literature & Publications) at the Department of Cultural Affairs, Sri Lanka. Her debut collection of short stories titled “The Red Brick Wall” (manuscript), was shortlisted for the Gratiaen Prize 2020. Her writing has appeared in Indian Review, Monograph, Channels: Journal of the English Writers’ Collective Sri Lanka and she has work forthcoming in Riptide Journal.
Email: manduleemendis@gmail.com
David C.L. LIM is Associate Professor of English at Open University Malaysia. He is the author of The Infinite Longing for Home: Desire and the Nation in Selected Writings of Ben Okri and K.S. Maniam (Rodopi, 2005) and co-editor of Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Cultural Interpretation and Social Intervention (Routledge, 2012).
Email: david@oum.edu.my
David H.J. NEO teaches at the Faculty of Film, Theatre and Animation, UiTM, Malaysia. He received his tertiary education in both Canada and Australia, and has also taught in educational institutions in these countries. His research interests include postcolonialism, cosmopolitanism, transnationalism, diaspora studies, and Peranakan cultures. His latest publication is “Popular Imaginary and Cultural Constructions of the Nonya in Peranakan Chinese Culture of the Straits Settlements”, Ethnicities 20.1 (2020): 24-48.
Email: davidhjn@uitm.edu.my
Debasree GHOSH was born and raised in Kolkata, India. Upon completing her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English Literature at Jadavpur University, she enrolled at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. She has taught at the Anglo-Chinese Junior College (Singapore), The Creative Arts Academy (Kolkata), Lancers International School (Delhi NCR), and New Zealand Language Centres (Wellington). She is currently a doctoral candidate at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Email: diya.ghosh@vuw.ac.nz
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P a g e 238 |58.2 Fiona LEE is Senior Lecturer in English at Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. She has published essays in Postcolonial Text, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, Southeast of Now:
Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and Verge: Studies in Global Asias. Before joining UM, she held academic appointments at the National University of Singapore and the University of Sydney, Australia.
Email: fiona.lee@gmail.com
Jason Eng Hun LEE is Lecturer in English and Comparative Literatures at Hong Kong Baptist University. His research and practice interests include global anglophone literatures, postcolonial and diasporic Asian writing, and global Shakespeares. He is a Literary Editor for Postcolonial Text and chief organizer for OutLoud HK. His debut poetry collection Beds in the East (Eyewear, 2019) was a finalist for the Melita Hume Prize.
Email: jaslee@hkbu.edu.hk
Keith JARDIM was born and raised in Trinidad & Tobago. His BFA and MFA in literature and writing are from Emerson College, and his PhD from the University of Houston’s creative writing and literature programmes. He has received several fellowships in fiction and been shortlisted for American Short Fiction’s Award and Glimmer Train’s Open Fiction Contest. His reviews and stories have appeared in Mississippi Review, Kyk-Over-Al, The Antigonish Review, Short Story, Wasafiri, Denver Quarterly, Moving Worlds, Trinidad Noir, SARE, and many other publications.
His first book Near Open Water: Stories (2011) was a semifinalist for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.
Email: saintpk@gmail.com
LOOI Siew Teip is a lecturer in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya. His research interests are in medieval English literature and Malaysian poetry in English. He is currently working on a translation of Sinophone poetry from Malaysia. He has previously worked as a journalist and music critic in Singapore.
Email: looist@um.edu.my
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P a g e 239 |58.2 Mahdi TEIMOURI received his doctoral degree from Universiti Malaya, Malaysia in 2014. His thesis was an analysis of ethics in selected novels of J.M. Coetzee. He is currently Assistant Professor of English at Khayyam University in Mashhad, Iran.
Email: teymoori58@yahoo.com
Murari PRASAD recently retired as Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Purnea University, India. He had earlier held a teaching appointment at Sana’a University, Yemen. He has edited critical anthologies on A Suitable Boy and The Shadow Lines as well as on Arundhati Roy and has contributed an entry on Upamanyu Chatterjee in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, 323 (Thomson Gale, 2006). A recent publication is his chapter “Reclaiming History: Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome” in Amitav Ghosh’s Culture Chromosome: Anthropology, Epistemology, Ethics, Space (Brill, 2021).
Email: prasadm123@rediffmail.com
Nicholas O. PAGAN is Visiting Professor of English at Universiti Malaya. He specializes in literary theory. His co-edited volume Literature, Memory, Hegemony (2018) includes a chapter on east and west as regions of consciousness; and in Orientalism and Reverse Orientalism in Literature and Film: Beyond East and West (2020) he has a chapter on intercultural encounters between John Steinbeck, Frank Chin, and Gish Jen.
Email: nicholas.pagan@um.edu.my
Paul GILES is Challis Professor of English at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is also currently serving as president of the International Association of University Professors of English.
The focus of his recent research is representations of temporality in a transnational and antipodean context, with his latest books being Backgazing: Reverse Time in Modernist Culture (Oxford University Press, 2019), and The Planetary Clock: Antipodean Time and Spherical Postmodern Fictions (OUP, 2021).
Email: paul.giles@sydney.edu.au
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P a g e 240 |58.2 Rob WILSON is Professor of American literature, creative writing, and poetics at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He has taught at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa; Korea University, and was National Science Council visiting professor at National Tsing Hua University and National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan. His books include: Waking In Seoul; American Sublime; Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production; Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary; Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Politics and the New Pacific;
and Reimagining the American Pacific: From “South Pacific’ to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond. Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics was selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Publication. Beat Attitudes: On the Roads to Beatitude for Post-Beat Writers, Dharma Bums, and Cultural-Political Activists was published by New Pacific Press and reissued on Kindle Books in 2020. A dual-language poetry collection in English and Chinese called When the Nikita Moon Rose appears in the Transpacific Archipelagic Poetry Series at National Sun Yat-sen University in fall 2021.
Email: rwilson@ucsc.edu
Sáshily KLING is a fourth generation Puertorican poet. Her roots speak in multilingualism as she hears her Taíno ancestors being colonized twice. Sáshily is a child of migration and her dive into the diaspora of the Hawaiian islands has deeply impacted her writings. She was nominated for the 2019 Biography Prize from the University of Hawai‘i at Manōa and is currently the Interim English and Humanities Programme Director at St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens, Florida, USA.
Email: SKling@stu.edu
Sharifah Aishah OSMAN is Senior Lecturer at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Her research focuses on the intersection between feminism and literature for Malaysian children and young adults. She is co-editor of The Principal Girl: Feminist Tales from Asia (2019) and is working on a monograph on Malaysian folktales and folktale adaptations as literary and cultural heritage.
Email: saosman@um.edu.my
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P a g e 241 |58.2 Sharmani Patricia GABRIEL is Honorary Professor of English at Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. She serves on the editorial and advisory boards of several journals and is also Editor-in- Chief of SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English. Her latest publication is “Racialisation in Malaysia: Multiracialism, Multiculturalism, and the Cultural Politics of the Possible” (Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 1-23 (Dec 2021). doi:10.1017/S0022463421000953).
Email: spgabriel@um.edu.my
Stephanie TAN recently earned her PhD in English literature from Monash University Malaysia (2021). Her doctoral thesis examined the relationship between modernist literature and art and the material world. Her research areas include twentieth-century literature and art, aesthetics, material culture studies, and literary theory.
Email: stephanietanlh@gmail.com
Yuan SHU is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Asian Studies Program at Texas Tech University, Lubbock. He has published essays in journals such as Cultural Critique, Modern Fiction Studies, MELUS, and The Journal of Popular Film and Television. He is co-editor of American Studies as Transnational Practice (Dartmouth College Press, 2015) and Oceanic Archives, Indigenous Epistemologies, and Transpacific American Studies (Hong Kong University Press, 2019). His monograph, Negotiating the Technological Empire, is under revision.
Email: yuan.shu@ttu.edu
