About
I am Associate Professor of English at the University of California-Riverside, where I am a member of the Southeast Asian Studies program, SEATRiP (Southeast Asia Text, Ritual, and Performance). I research and teach anglophone literatures from South Asia and Southeast Asia from postcolonial and globalizing perspectives.
From 2014-2017 I was the contributor for Southeast Asia in the “New Literatures” section of the
Year’s Work in English Studies.
If you would like a copy of any of my journal articles or book chapters, please do not hesitate to contact me by email (
weihsing@ucr.edu).
Other Publications
Books, edited collections, and special issues:
National Consciousness and Literary Cosmopolitics: Postcolonial Literature in a Global Moment. Ohio State University Press (2013)
Common Lines and City Spaces: A Critical Anthology on Arthur Yap. Editor. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (2014).
“Singapore and the Intersections of Neoliberal Globalization and Postcoloniality.” Special issue of
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies on “Singapore at 50”
. Co-editor. Vol. 18, no. 4, 2016, pp. 473-482.
Journal articles and chapters in books:
“
Public Transit and Urban Poetics: Singapore’s Moving Words Poetry Project and Anthology.”
Textual Practice, 2019 [online]
“Braiding Stories and Affordances in the Graphic Novels of Koh Hong Teng and Sonny Liew.”
Moving Worlds, vol. 19, no. 1, 2019, pp. 65-82.
“Narrating the Global South East Asian Diaspora.”
Oxford History of the Novel in English Vol. 10: The Novel in South and South East Asia Since 1945. Ed. Alex Tickell. Oxford U P, 2019, pp. 5787-594.
“Noir Fiction in Malaysia and Singapore as a Critical Aesthetic of Global Asia.” Social Text: Periscope, 2018 [online]
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Short Story Collections and Crowded Selves: Madeleine Thien’s Simple Recipes and Jeremy Tiang’s It Never Rains on National Day.”
Singapore Unbound, 2017 [online]
“Contemporary Literature From Singapore.”
Oxford Research Encyclopedia for Literature, 2017. [online]
“Singaporean Literature and Global Modernism: Wang Gungwu, Lloyd Fernando, Lydia Kwa.”
Singapore Literature and Culture, eds. Angelia Poon and Angus Whitehead. Routledge, 2017, pp. 135-152.
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Global Modernism in Colonial Malayan and Singaporean Literature: The Poetry and Prose of Teo Poh Leng and Sinnathamby Rajaratnam.”
Postcolonial Text, vol. 12, no. 2, 2017 [online]
“Renaissance City and Revenant Story: The Gothic Tale as Literary Technique in Fiona Cheong’s Fictions of Singapore.”
Interventions, vol. 18, no. 4, 2016, pp. 559-572.
“Transnational Forms in British Fiction.” In
The Cambridge Companion to Post-1945 British Fiction. Ed. David James. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 224-238.
“Creative Destruction and Narrative Renovation: Neoliberalism and the Aesthetic Dimension in the Fiction of Aravind Adiga and Mohsin Hamid.”
The Global South 7.2(2014): 173-190.
“The Transformation of Objects into Things in Arthur Yap’s Poetry.”
Common Lines and City Spaces: A Critical Anthology on Arthur Yap. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Press, 2014. pp. 14-41.
“The Migrant Longing for Form: Articulating Aesthetics with Migration, Immigration, and Movement.”
Pacific Coast Philology 49.2(2014): 153-166.
“Tactical Objectivism: Recognizing the Object within the Subjective Logic of Neoliberalism in the Fiction of Tash Aw and Lydia Kwa.”
LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 25.4(2014): 291-311.
“Post-Heritage Narratives: Migrancy and Travelling Theory in V.S. Naipaul’s
The Enigma of Arrival and Andrea Levy’s
Fruit of the Lemon.”
Journal of Commonwealth Literature 47.1(2012): 70-85.
“Melodrama.”
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel. Ed. Peter Logan, et al. Malden, MA:
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 508-510.
“Metafiction.”
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel. Ed. Peter Logan, et al. Malden, MA:
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 514-515.
“Lyric Poetry and Postcolonialism: The Subject of Self-Forgetting.”
Journal of Postcolonial Writing 43.3(2007): 264-277.
