'Several said that they actively didn’t respond to emails, or acted in an exaggerated disorganised manner.'

Women end up doing the academic housework kifinfo.no/en/2024/03/wom…

Congrats again to Theophilus Kwek for winning Sweden’s Cikada Prize for 2023. Some images from the lovely award ceremony and reception held this week at the Swedish Ambassador’s residence in Singapore.

theophiluskwek.com/home/cikada-pr…

We’re doing an online launch for Here Was Once the Sea: a Southeast Asian Anthology of Ecowriting. Register here: tinyurl.com/SEAEcowriting

Morning at Cashin House, Singapore

Very glad to see my biography and critical essay on Singapore genre writer and one-off poet Damien Sin out in the world. Like so many authors, his life is almost if not more interesting than his work poetry.sg/damien-sin-bio

Very excited to be sharing my work on modern and non-modern waters next week at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. I’ll be discussing Ponti, a Singapore novel— think mangroves, tropical aquariums and hallucinatory watery moments.

'A Malaysian Ecocriticism Reader', edited by Agnes S. K. Yeow and Wai Liang Tham, promises to be a fascinating read.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Giving a talk at Universiti Brunei Darussalam in a few weeks. Particularly excited to talk about the origins of home aquariums and Singapore as the top exporter of bred tropical aquarium fish in the 1980s.

One of the joys this past year was co-editing Here Was Once the Sea: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Ecowriting, a special issue of Mānoa MĀNOA Journal with Esther Vincent & Rina Garcia Chua. Open-access to the introduction & one other piece here:

muse.jhu.edu/article/917274…

PR&TA writers (Mohamed Shaker, Toh Hong Jin and M N Shehryar) and editors (Dr Ann Ang and Lawrence Ypil) in action at a joint reading with Kopi Break at Yale-NUS College on 6 February 2024, Tuesday for Diversity Week!

Proud of this book baby Here Was Once the Sea, co-edited with Ann Ang & Rina Garcia Chua, with Craig Santos Perez as Series Editor U of Hawai‘i Press

More details as we plan for an online international launch in the coming months. Stay tuned 🌈🌊💖

Cover art: Setu Legi

Been thinking a lot about water in Singapore and Bruneian contexts, and reading this wonderful open-access book alongside. Bodies of Water, all of us are.

Greedily reading everything I can find on Brunei’s myths and legends

Learned today that this article was assigned reading in a university seminar in the Philippines: hugely encouraged. We should do this more--tell others that we read their work.