RESEARCH SUMMARY: At the centre of my research is an ethics of care across the life-course (illness, disability, ageing, end-of-life, caregiving). Through literary-cultural analysis of contemporary fiction and life-writing, alongside thematic analysis of qualitative interviews, I examine how experiences of care are represented and made meaningful, and how these representations shape care relations, stigma, and clinical communication. These analyses inform the practice-facing educational resources I develop for public audiences and for medical education.

Monographs

(2026) Chiang, M. Mothering Care in the Contemporary Novel: Unknown Others, Imaginative Labour, and the Ethics of Care (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming)

(2018) Chiang M. Beckett’s Intuitive Spectator: Me to Play (Basingstoke: Palgrave)

Articles

(2025). Kitto, S., Chiang, M., Ng, O., Cleland, Jennifer. ‘More, better feedback please’: are learning analytics dashboards (LAD) the solution to a wicked problem? Advances in Health Science Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-024-10358-8 

(2024). Chiang, M. Prosthesis Refusal and the Ethics of Care in J. M. Coetzee’s Slow Man. Journal of Medical Humanities. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-024-09908-3

(2023). Chiang, M. The weight of words: human relationality in end-of-life memoirs. The Lancet Vol. 402: 956-957. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01901-3

(2023). Chiang, M. ‘It’ll never end, I’ll never go’: Representation of Caregiving in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame and Footfalls. Journal of Medical Humanities. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-023-09805-1

(2022). Chiang, M, Wong, A., et. al.  Continuity of Care Advocate Model (CCAM): Healthcare workers’ perspectives on quality stroke care at an acute unit, rehabilitation center and community rehabilitation program in Singapore. Qualitative Health Research. Online first: 1-10. doi:10.1177/10497323221139392

(2019). Chiang, M. What Can We Learn from Stories of the Dying?: Narrative Extensions and the Absurdity of Being ‘Terminal’. Moving Worlds: Journal of Transcultural Writings 19.2: 72-83. Print. (2017).

(2017). Chiang, M. “The Crime of ‘Making Real’ in All That Fall”. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui, 29(1), 211-22. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26552558

(2016). Chiang, M. Time made flesh: Samuel Beckett’s dual depiction of Time. Novel-Writing Playwrights and Playwriting Novelists after Beckett. Ed. Daniel Jernigan. Review of Contemporary Fiction Special Edition: 195-213. Print. Online Access.

(2015). Chiang, M. Reconstituted Pathos: ‘Love’ from the Periphery in Three Early Beckettian Short Prose. Writing from the margins: The Aesthetics of Disruption in the Irish Short Story. Ed. Catriona Ryan. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Others

(2022). Patient-Centered Care. In: Crawford, P., Kadetz, P. (eds) Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Health Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26825-1_66-1

Reviews

“Why Literary Studies still has ‘value’: Review of The Values of Literary Studies” Journal of Modern Literature 41.4 (Summer 2018): 187-9. Print.

“Confinement and Limits of the Human: Review of Undoing Time and Think, Pig!” Journal of Modern Literature 40.4 (Summer 2017). Print.

“Review of The River’s Song” Moving Worlds: Journal of Transcultural Writings 14.1 (2014):127. Print.