Resume

• 2010

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  English Literature

  University of Toronto

• 2008

  Master of Arts (M.A.)

  Literary Arts

  National University of Singapore

• 1999

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  Comparative Literature and International Relations

  Brown University

  Magna Cum Laude (With Honors)

  Magical Realism (with Ato Quayson)

  Romantic Cities (with Dan White)

  Literary Utopias with Reda Bensmaia

  City as Archive (with Karina Vernon)

  Asian and Other Modernities (with Philip Holden)

  Contemporary Chinese Cinema with Rey Chow

• Literature

  Broadcast Journalism

  Television Producing

  Teaching

  Editing

  English Literature

  Lecturing

  Social Media

  Teaching Writing

  Documentaries

  University Teaching

  Copy Editing

  Conducting Interviews

  Politics

  Panel Moderator

  Public Speaking

  Hosting Events

  Television News

  Research

  French

  “The Future of Nostalgia: Reclaiming Memory in Tan Pin Pin’s Invisible City and Alfian Sa’at’s A History of Amnesia”. Journal of Commonwealth Literature 45.1 (2010)

  \"A delicate pellet of dust\": Dissident Flash Fictions from Contemporary Singapore

  \"A delicate pellet of dust\": Dissident Flash Fictions from Contemporary Singapore

  “ ‘Between home and home’: Crossings and Coastlines in the Poetry of Boey Kim Cheng.”Southeast Asian Review of English

  50(2010/2011)

  “Mis-mappings and Mis-duplications: Interdiscursivity and the Poetry of Wayde Compton.” Canadian Literature

  Autumn 2012

  Transnational Toronto in Dionne Brand's What We All Long For

  Transnational Toronto in Dionne Brand's What We All Long For

  Leow

  Joanne

  Leow

  McMaster University

  Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry

  University of Toronto

  University of Saskatchewan

  MediaCorp Pte Ltd

  I was a Presenter-Producer with Channel NewsAsia. Besides presenting the news live on camera and the breakfast programme Primetime Morning

  I produced segments and interviews for the channel and participated in an editorial role by deciding on

  planning and scheduling interviews. While I am comfortable tackling fields as diverse as science and politics

  my expertise lies in interviewing arts practitioners and writers. Highlights of these interviews include my conversations with Kevin Spacey

  Wole Soyinka

  Anita Desai

  Thomas Keller

  Sonny Rollins

  Chick Corea

  Sophia Loren and Fernando Botero.\nI was also the moderator for two ministerial forums on healthcare and general elections which were broadcast on national television. This involved moderating discussion panels which included the Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew.\nI have also hosted events and seminars for Channel NewsAsia.

  MediaCorp Pte Ltd

  University of Saskatchewan

  Saskatoon

  I teach courses in decolonizing

  transnational and diasporic literatures

  as well as more advanced seminars in spatial theory and (post)colonial ecocriticism. \n\nI am also undertaking a multi-city research project on speculative fiction and waterfront eco-developments with the assistance of a SSHRC Insight Development Grant.

  Assistant Professor

  Diasporic

  Transnational

  Decolonising/Postcolonial Literatures

  Tutorials

  guest lectures and grading.\nThe Canadian Short Story\nCanadian Literature \nLiterature for our Time\nPostcolonial and Transnational Discourses

  University of Toronto

  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow / Course Instructor

  My postdoctoral project

  \"Nature Capitals: Urban Ecologies and Literary Speculations

  \" examines the connections between speculative fictions

  and the ecologically-engineered environments of transnational

  hyper-modern urban sites. Waterfront eco-developments of the rapidly developing cities of Vancouver

  Hong Kong

  Singapore

  and Dubai will be paired these material sites with their literary and cultural counterparts. This interdisciplinary study will show how the nebulous intersections between imagined futures and actual realities may be able to alter the ways we think about temporality

  economic progress

  and urban development. Literary texts offer us new ways to think transnationally about the issues like the impact of land reclamation

  environmental manipulation

  “green” urban planning

  migrant labour

  and sustainable development. \n\nI am currently teaching Studying Culture: A Criticial Introduction

  a large first year lecture style course. Aside from course design and lecture delivery

  I also manage a team of 7 teaching assistants.

  McMaster University

  Editorial Assistant

  I helped Professor Ato Quayson to launch this journal with Cambridge Journals. I coordinated the submissions process

  managed databases

  solicited book reviews

  and scheduled the peer review process for articles. I also did the initial copy editing of articles and book reviews.

  Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry

  Course Instructor

  Teaching ENG425: The Transnational Canadian Text and ENG 215: Canadian Short Story. Duties include course design and syllabus planning

  giving lectures

  leading seminar discussions

  grading

  and mentoring students.

  University of Toronto

  PhD Candidate

  I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation

  \"Counter-Cartographies: Literary Wayfinding in Transnational Cities\" --- the culmination of a five-year research project that examines how minority literary texts from Singapore

  Vancouver

  and Toronto intervene in capitalist configurations of urban space.\nDuring my time as a PhD student and candidate

  I tackled numerous sets of oral and written exams

  and independently managed a complex and multi-faceted research project from its initial proposal stage to its development into a book-length manuscript. I also mentored other graduate students in various departmental workshops. I am currently working on a book proposal based on my doctoral research.\n

  University of Toronto

  Reporter

  My previous position in the organization as a Broadcast Journalist involved reporting local news with a special emphasis on Education and the Arts. I contributed numerous “live” reports from locations ranging from disaster zones to political events.\nI have extensive experience in scripting for television

  voicing over segments and working in longer documentary formats.

  MediaCorp Pte Ltd

  Modern Language Association

  Association of Canadian and Quebecois Literature

  Canadian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies

  Northeast Modern Languages Association

  American Comparative Literature Association

  Italian (basic reading and speaking)

  Chinese

  French

  Thomas and Beverley Simpson / Ontario Graduate Scholarship Visa Award at the Faculty of Arts and Science

  Ontario

  Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship

  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

  Canada

  University of Toronto Fellowship

  University of Toronto

  Media Corporation of Singapore scholarship

  MediaCorp

  Public Service Commission Teaching Scholarship (Overseas) (declined)

  Public Service Commission

  Singapore

  Avie Bennett Award

  University of Toronto

  V.A. De Luca Memorial Fellowship

  University of Toronto

  Rosalie Colie Prize in Comparative Literature for best Honors Thesis

  Brown University

  Northrop Frye Doctoral Fellowship

  Victoria College

  University of Toronto

  Barbara Godard Prize for Best Paper by Emerging Scholar at the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures

  Association of Canadian and Quebecois Literatures

  First Prize

  Casey Shearer Memorial Award for Excellence in Creative Non-Fiction

  Brown University