Vincent Pak is a PhD candidate in English Language and Linguistics, under the Joint PhD Programme between the National University of Singapore and King’s College London. His research in sociolinguistics largely surrounds language, gender, and sexuality, and he also has interests in raciolinguistics and the sociolinguistics of tourism. His work has been published in journals such as Social Semiotics and Language in Society.
Lee Chong Ming is pursuing his Master of Arts in English Literature (Research) in the Department of English Language and Literature at NUS. His research interests include contemporary literature and culture, queer theory, and critical theory. He completed his undergraduate thesis on queer loss, progress, and futurity in canonical American literary texts, and is currently studying the intersections between contemporary queer literature and queer affect theory.
Shivani Gupta (pronouns: she/her) is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Communications and New Media, and the Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster, at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She is an anthropologist and her fields of studies are gender and sexuality, feminism, urban and South Asia. She received her PhD from South Asian Studies, NUS. Her dissertation investigated and mapped everyday intersectional lives of women in the sacred city of Banaras, India.
Neha Saini is an English Literature Research Masters student and Teaching Assistant in the Department of English Language and Literature in NUS FASS. Her research interests include South African women’s writing, postcolonial theory, feminist theory, and gender and sexuality studies. She completed her bachelor’s thesis on South African women’s rewriting of the Soweto Uprisings during apartheid and is continuing her study of South African women’s writing as part of her masters research.
Lee Da Eun is a PhD Student in Comparative Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. Her research interests lie in migration & mobility, youth, gender and transnationalism. She is also interested in ethnography and qualitative research. Her current research focuses on transnational youth migration and political activisms in Asia, in the context of Asian youths’ responses to geopolitical and cultural dynamics in Asia (e.g., Globalization, China’s rising, K-pop media culture in Asia). Her work has been published in the Korean Women’s Studies Review in South Korea.
Pavithra Nandanan Menon is a PhD candidate, Teaching Assistant as well as a Graduate Student Researcher at the Comparative Asian Studies Programme, Department of South East Asian Studies. Her thematic areas of interest include gender and sexuality, race and religion, intersectionality, transnationalism and diaspora, gender-responsive education/curricula, Area Studies to name a few, with a focus on qualitative approaches such as ethnography, interviews, participant observation and ethno-historiographic research. Her recent upcoming work can be found in the Indian journal of Women and Social Change.
Zishan Lai (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Communications and New Media (CNM) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Her interests include digital intimacy, East Asian popular culture and fandom, lying at the intersection of feminism and media & cultural studies. Her ongoing dissertation project is about understanding how Chinese women’s love and intimacy relate to the otome games (female-targeted dating simulation games), and to the political economy in which they are embedded.
Ranjita Dilraj is a PhD student in South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. Her research focuses on the intersections of gender identity, roles, and disaster resilience. She is also interested in Gender Anthropology, Women’s Studies and Social Inclusion. With a Master’s in Gender, Society and Representation from University College London, she has previously worked on various gender advocacy initiatives including as the Gender Focal Point of the Chemicals and Environment Management Unit of the United Nations Development Programme in India.
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