Panel 1: Uncharted Territories, 1965-1990
Dr. C. J. W.-L. Wee
Chair
​C. J. W.-L. Wee is Professor of English at the Nanyang Technological University. He has held Visiting Fellowships at – among other institutions – the Society for the Humanities, Cornell University and, in 2020, the National Humanities Center in the USA. Wee is the author of The Asian Modern: Culture, Capitalist Development, Singapore (2007), a co-editor of Contesting Performance: Global Genealogies of Research (2010) and the editor of The Complete Works of Kuo Pao Kun: Plays in English, Volume Four (2012). He has interests in literature and the contemporary arts in Singapore, the curation of contemporary Asian art and regional popular culture.
Panel 2: Landscapes Lost and Found, 1990-2010
Dr. Alvin Pang
Chair
Alvin PANG, PhD, is a poet, writer, editor and translator whose broad creative practice spans over two decades of literary and related activities in Singapore and elsewhere. Featured in the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English and the Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, his writing has been translated into more than twenty languages. His latest titles include WHAT HAPPENED: Poems 1997-2017 (2017) and UNINTERRUPTED TIME (2019). For his contributions to the literary arts, he has received the Young Artist Award, Singapore Youth Award and the JCCI Education Award, among other accolades. He serves on several advisory boards, including the International Poetry Studies Institute at the University of Canberra, the peer-reviewed journal Axon: Creative Explorations and Rabbit: Journal of non-fiction poetry. His research interests include the possibilities of literary practice conducted across multiple languages, genres, careers and communities. He was appointed Adjunct Professor of RMIT University in 2021.
Panel 3: New Fictions
Dr. Barrie Sherwood
Chair
Barrie Sherwood is Assistant Professor in English at Nanyang Technological University.
Panel 4: New Movements
Dr. Cheryl Julia Lee
Chair
Cheryl Julia Lee is an Assistant Professor with the English department at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests include Southeast Asian literature and culture, contemporary Irish literature, and the dialogue between aesthetics and ethics. Her poetry collection, We Were Always Eating Expired Things, was published in 2014, and was nominated for the Singapore Literature Prize. Her other creative work can be found in QLRS, Icarus, and Prick of the Spindle, among others. She is also currently the critical editor of prose.sg.
Panel 5: New Tongues
Theophilus Kwek
Chair
Theophilus Kwek has published four collections of poetry, two of which were shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize. His poems, essays and translations have won numerous awards, and appeared in The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, The London Magazine, Columbia Journal, and elsewhere. Recent works include his latest collection Moving House (2020), as well as a bilingual collaboration with composer Alex Ho for the National Opera Studio in London. He previously served as Editor-at-Large for Asymptote, and is now part of the editorial team for the newly-launched journal PR&TA.