Genevieve Ding

Class of 2021

Genevieve is interested in the genre of jurisprudence, the rhetoric of humanitarianism, and the narrative of affective regimes from antiquity to the contemporary. Her capstone project seeks to synthesise her interest in Roman poetry and humanitarianism. It articulates the affective programme of the Aeneid to establish an aesthetic model of pathos capable of interrogating the politicized ethic of compassion underlying the development of humanitarian sensibilities, narratives, and mobilization.

Kevin Wong

Class of 2020

Kevin is a graduating student in the Law Double Degree Programme, as well as a Literature Major. Having grown up immersed in fantasy worlds made accessible through books and video games, studying literature affords him a welcome opportunity to examine the intricacies of text, language, and narrative that make up the fabric of those worlds. He particularly enjoys grand tales of gods and heroes; of the rise and fall of empires; of the individual situated against the overwhelming forces of time, culture, and history.

Bringing together both Law and Literature, Kevin’s final year project examines Ovidian epic and poetry for its legalistic valences in its coverage of mythological ‘property disputes’, with implications for classical rhetoric, the pseudo-legal status of the Roman gods, and ancient roman ideas about property and ownership. He plans to pursue graduate school, performing interdisciplinary research at the intersection between legal, literary, classical, and reception studies.

Outside of class, he spends his time gaming, reading, and watching television shows – all preferably with a cup of bubble tea in hand.

Faris Joraimi

Class of 2021

Adeline Loh

Class of 2021

Adeline is a Literature major and Arts and Humanities minor who is drawn to the way that literary texts and media can serve as a mode for experiencing and understanding the world. Her interests so far lie in exploring the intersections of ethics, feminism, and the postcolonial in contemporary women’s writing. She hopes to branch out into intermediality and women’s and gender studies while building on literary theoretical frameworks. When she’s not working on academic writing, she can be found attempting to write poetry, creative nonfiction, and plays. Otherwise, her current hobbies include cooking, knitting, and doing her laundry! 

She is currently working on literary conceptions of romantic fate in 20th-century women’s writing for her capstone project. She is slowly realising that this is a Big Commitment! Haha, Oh No. 

Nigel Loh

Class of 2021

Nigel is a senior-year Literature major who is primarily interested in critical theory and its application to contemporary works; most recently, he’s been getting into the intersection between theories of affect, spatiality, trauma, which will be a focus of his capstone project. Nigel thinks that his interest in Literature has endured because he was quite the latecomer to it, thinking he was going to become a marine biologist up until the age of 14 when he realised that this did not just entail swimming with orcas and turtles. Literature to Nigel is a world with a one-way door. Not that he has a problem with being trapped in it, as he’s never looked back since he was first asked to read a book and talk about it. Nigel hopes to keep reading, talking about books and why they matter, to other budding marine biologists. 

Kukhanya Magubane

Class of 2021

Kukhanya Thuthuka Magubane is a Literature major enthralled by the potentialities of invisible literatures for absent(ed) peoples. Invisible literatures entail works eviscerated by the written word in experiential projects of imperialism, refusing silence in the muted halls of orality, tradition, indigeneity, thought, and human history.

What living is unearthed from deathliness?

The animate dead, inarticulate living, the unsequestered spirit dream fever sweet swallowing suns (w)hole steaming…

Magubane, Kukhanya. The Academy. [Redacted]. [Enacted].∞.

 

Kelly Ng

Class of 2021

Kelly is a Literature senior who has enjoyed reading for as long as she can remember. As a child, she was enraptured by the fantasy worlds conjured by children authors, Enid Blyton and Lemony Snickett. She enjoys literature as it offers her a glimpse of humanity and human diversity, over time and space. It teaches her the importance of finding the depths of meaning in the unobserved and overlooked details of life. She has taken a wide range of literature classes – from a special seminar on Middle English and Chaucer’s Canterbury tales to seminars on Fiction and the Supernatural, Trauma and Loss in the Arab world and Latin American Realities. Recently, she spent a semester abroad at the University of Copenhagen where she enrolled in a graduate class on James Joyce’s Ulysses. Outside of school, she is a huge adrenaline-junkie and enjoys adventure sports like rock-climbing, scuba-diving, canyoneering and kayaking.

Sidharth Praveen

Class of 2021

Tan Wei Lynn

Class of 2021

Wei Lynn is a Literature major and Chinese studies minor who at 16 was convinced she wanted to become an architect but finally decided in university that she wanted a break from one too many years of a STEM centric education. For once, she had the privilege of simply choosing what made her heart beat and excited her, and many rounds of Mod-reg later it seemed all signs were pointing towards becoming a Literature major. She is generally interested in modern Chinese Literature and issues surrounding translation and identity to name a few.

Outside of the classroom, Wei Lynn enjoys playing tennis, journaling and curling up with a cup of coffee and a good book!

Yap Jia Yi

Class of 2021

Jia Yi has always been intrigued by how language is used to portray the human condition. She is keenly fascinated by the workings of form to represent consciousness since her exposure to The Great Gatsby and is currently writing her capstone on how the marginalized self uses narrative as a survival strategy. When she is not studying or working, she can be found either trying her hand at creative writing, playing music, doing watercolor painting or simply cackling at (literary) memes.

Isabel Chua (minor)

Class of 2021

Esther Foo (minor)

Class of 2021

Ignatius Koh (minor)

Class of 2021

Brandon Lim (minor)

Class of 2021

Mathias Ooi (minor)

Class of 2021

Chloe Lim (minor)

Class of 2021

Tan Qian Hui (minor)

Class of 2021

Teo Wen Min (minor)

Class of 2021

Peh Yi Lin (minor)

Class of 2021

Nicholas Quek (minor)

Class of 2021

Adair Simpson (minor)

Class of 2021

Prairie Soh (minor)

Class of 2021

Jason Yeung (minor)

Class of 2021