Invited Presentations

So Much For My Happy Ending: Writing Open Closures in Fiction (2023, November). Panel Discussion @Singapore Writers’ Festival, Singapore.

How to Read Lovingly (2023, October). Tedx Talk @Yale-NUS College, Singapore.

Attentiveness: Difficulties of Modernist Texts (2023, August). Workshop Presentation @Gifted Education Branch, Ministry of Education.

All in the Family (2023, July). Panel Discussion @Read! Fest ‘23, National Library Board,

Classics or "Nah-sis"? (2022, November). Panel Discussion @Singapore Writers’ Festival, Singapore.

Tactilities of Love (2022, March). Research Presentation at @ASEAN FOUNDATION,

Articulating Friendship in Contemporary Women’s Writing (2021, August). Lecture and Q&A session @The National Library, Singapore.

Toilet Narratives and Dirty Sex in Singapore (2019, March). Lecture @Yale-NUS College, Singapore.

Queering Narratives (2018, October). Lecture and Q&A session @Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Finding A Room of One’s Own: Some Thoughts on a Literary Feminist Phenomenology (2018, August). Lecture @Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan.

Conference Presentations

Intensity and Impossibility: Eileen Chang’s Modernist Love Stories @Borders, Margins, Cartographies: Transnational Modernist Women’s Writing. University of Tartu. Estonia.

“I don’t want to revisit the pain”: Rethinking Survivor Care and Solidarity in Gladys Ng’s Under the Same Pink Sky @Caring Futures, The American University of Paris, France.

Crooked Women and P(r)etty Crimes: Lesbian Paradigms in Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden @Crime and the Gothic, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok

March 2023

Flushed Out: An Examination of Spatial-Sexual Discipline in Toilet Narratives @Queer Representations. University of Edinburgh, Scotland

May 2021

On Feminist Ghosts and Exorcisms in Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘Hand in Glove’ and ‘The Demon Lover’ @Gothic Spaces: Houses, Landscapes Bodies, University of Tokyo, Japan

October 2019

Bent on the Dark: Some Thoughts on Negative Perception in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood @Risk Anything! Modernist Women between Centre and Periphery, University of New South Wales, Australia

April 2018

Finger Pointing and the Writing Conundrum @A Community of Writers: Collaborations Across the Liberal Arts, Yale-NUS College, Singapore

November 2017

On Female Hesitancy: Emma Donoghue’s Stir-Fry @IASIL 2017: Ireland’s Writers in the 21C, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

July 2017

To See or Not to See: Negative Perception in René Magritte’s The Key to Dreams and Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood @Sensory Modernism(s), University of Leeds, UK

May 2015

Finding the (No)Body in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood @Literary Dolls, Durham University, UK

March 2014

Towards a Place of One’s Own: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway @New Work in Modernist Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK

December 2013

Speaking Narratives, Living Genres: The Rhetoric of Dialogue in Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land @Transcultural Imaginaries: A Multidisciplinary Conference, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

July 2013

Space, Time, Language, and Narrative in Dialogue: Voices in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus @The Contemporary: A Multidisciplinary Conference. Nanyang Technological University Singapore.

July 2011

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