H L Michelle Chiang

Experience

Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)

I teach Theatre of the Absurd, Major Author Study: Samuel Beckett, Film Theory and Being Human in Literature and Film. My research interest is in the intersection between literature, philosophy and medicine.

2016 – 2018: Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania (USA)

The product of this postdoctoral experience at UPenn is the monograph Beckett’s Intuitive Spectator: Me to Play (Palgrave, 2018).

2012 – 2015: Editorial Assistant, Moving Worlds: Journal of Transcultural Writing (UK)

Education

2015 PhD, University of Leeds (UK)

2012 MA, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)

2010 BA (Hons), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)

Scholarships and Awards

2009 Koh Tai Ann Gold Medal Award (Singapore)

2010-12 HSS Research Scholarship (Singapore)

2012-2015 Bonamy Dobrée Scholarship (UK)

2013 Glynne Wickham Scholarship (UK)

2016-18 HASS Postdoctoral Scholarship (Singapore)

Conference & Seminars

2024 (Conference Organiser) “Navigating Uncertainty in Patient-Centered Care,” SHBC-NTU Medical Humanities Satellite Conference, SG, Oct 11.

2023 “Mental Health Stigma in Singapore: The Impact of Stories,” Singhealth Duke-NUS Medicine ACP – NTU Medical Humanities Conference, SG, Oct 27.

2023 “Shattered Worlds: Interdisciplinary Research on the Lived Experiences of Stroke,” Singhealth Duke-NUS Medicine ACP – NTU Medical Humanities Conference.

2022 “Stroke care challenges and Medical Humanities in Singapore,” Transform Medical Education Conference, Imperial College London, UK, Nov 11.

2022 “Medical Humanities Landscape in Singapore” Invited Paper, SingHealth Faculty Development Webinar, Online, Feb 17.

2021 “Visceral Boredom of ‘Playing the Game’: Virtual Reality, Beckett and the Camusean Absurd” Invited Paper, Yale-NUS Literature Work-in-progress Series, Online, Mar 17.

2020 “What is a personally meaningful life to you in the face of a debilitating illness?” TEDxNTU A World Reimagined, NTU, Oct 24.

2019 “Beckett, Albee, and Time of the Absurd,” Beyond the Clock Conference, NTU, Mar 15.

2018 “Writing the End: Qualitative Time in End-of-Life Memoirs,” Transform Medical Education, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nov 10.

2018 “What can we learn from stories of the dying?” Singapore Writers’ Festival, The Arts House, Nov 6.

2017 “Storyworld Creation and the Limits of the Virtual,” Samuel Beckett, Modernism, Scholarly Editing, University of Sydney, December 4-5.

2017 “Beckett, Eisenstein and Pathos Construction,” IASIL Conference, NTU, Singapore, July 24-28.

2017 “Blurring Boundaries: Violations and Double Vision in Pinter’s Old Times and Beckett’s Not I,” MLA Conference, Philadelphia, USA, January 5.

2015 “The Intuition of Time in Endgame, Footfalls and Rockaby,” Division of English Research Seminar, NTU, Singapore, October 29.

2015 “Reconstituted Pathos: The Intuition of Loss in All That Fall,” Beckett and the Mind Conference, University of Western Sydney, Australia, June 29- July 1.

2014 “Negotiating Xenophobia in Singapore: Ilo Ilo: 爸媽不在家 as Uncommon Cultural Windfall”, 15th EACLALS Triennial Conference 2014. Uncommon Wealths: Riches and Realities, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, April 14-18.

2014 “The Intuition of Time and Beckettian Theatre,” White Rose Beckett Seminar, University of Leeds, UK, March 4.

2012 “Ireland in the Mind: Translating the Personal in All that Fall,” Beckett and the State of Ireland, University College Dublin, Ireland, July 13.

2011 “Beckett’s Trilogy: The Trap of Consciousness,” The Contemporary: An International Conference of Literature and the Arts, NTU, Singapore, June 25.