FHM Researchers - Dr TSE Yin Nga Kelly
FHM Researchers - Dr TSE Yin Nga Kelly
Assistant Professor
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS)
Research Area(s):
- Postcolonial and World Literatures (with a focus on the Asia-Pacific Region)
- Environmental Humanities
- Gender and Media Studies
I specialise in postcolonial and world literatures and the environmental humanities, with a special focus on East and Southeast Asia. I am also interested in gender and media studies. I welcome proposals from prospective students interested in these areas. Feel free to reach out to me if you would like to talk about your projects.
ECS project:
“Redressing Atrocities: Forms of Reconciliation in Postcolonial Southeast Asian Literature” (2022-2025)
Selected Publications:
- Tse, Kelly Yin Nga. “Queering Imperial History: The Ethics of Reconciliation in Tan Twan Eng’s The Gift of Rain (2007),” Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol. 57, no. 1 (2022): 3–17.
- Tse, Kelly Yin Nga. “Cinematic Erasure: Translating Southeast/ Asia in Crazy Rich Asians.” In Translational Politics in Southeast Asian Literatures: Contesting Race, Gender, and Sexuality, edited by Grace V.S. Chin. Routledge, 2021.
- Tse, Kelly Yin Nga. “Genre Fiction in South East Asia: Chick Lit and Crime Fiction.” In The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume X: The Novel in South and South East Asia since 1945, edited by Alex Tickell. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2019.