Current Postgraduate Students

• PhD Students

  
  Julian Hopkins
  
  ‘Monetise your blog!’ Commercialisation & Change in the Malaysian Blogosphere. (Supervisors Dr Yeoh Seng Guan and Dr Patricia Goon)
  
  Through participant observation by blogging, as well as joining with bloggers in offline events, this research approaches the Malaysian blogosphere using anthropological methods and theory. It hopes to shed light on the process of change in the Malaysian blogosphere, and more specifically blogging practices and debates centred on using blogs commercially. You can visit his blog at http://www.julianhopkins.net.
  
  
  Peter Gan Chong Beng
  
  Dialectics and the Sublime in Evelyn Underhill's Mysticism: The Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness (Supervisors: Associate Prof. Han Soo Gil and Dr Andrew Ng)
  
  Evelyn Underhill’s Mysticism: The Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness plumbs the depths of mysticism and articulates the subtleties of this phenomenon using the conceptual tools of philosophy, psychology, and theology. My study endeavours to critically read Mysticism through the theoretical themes of dialectic and sublimity. Dialectic and the sublime are inherently rich concepts with distinct intellectual genealogies. The underlying premise of the study is that reading Underhill’s text through those concepts promises to offer fresh insights into engaging and ubiquitous issues that mysticism harbours.

• Masters Students

  
  Eugene Chua Kee Hong
  
  Black Humour: Comic Darkness in Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut’s Fiction (Supervisors: Dr.Andrew Ng, Dr.Sharon Bong)
  
  Evelyn Underhill’s Mysticism: The Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness plumbs the depths of mysticism and articulates the subtleties of this phenomenon using the conceptual tools of philosophy, psychology, and theology. My study endeavours to critically read Mysticism through the theoretical themes of dialectic and sublimity. Dialectic and the sublime are inherently rich concepts with distinct intellectual genealogies. The underlying premise of the study is that reading Underhill’s text through those concepts promises to offer fresh insights into engaging and ubiquitous issues that mysticism harbours.

• Honours Research - Thesis research conducted and being conducted

  
  

  2008	The New Face(book) of Malaysian Cyberfeminist Activism: A preliminary study (by Melody Song Faye-Lynn; Supervisors: Dr Yeoh Seng Guan and Patricia Goon). Religious Discourses of Young-Adult Malaysian Muslims (by Dahlia Martin; Supervisor: Dr Julian C. H. Lee).
  2007	Malaysian Women in Computer Science Education: Confidence, Approach and Motivation (by Jinny Wong; Supervisor: Dr Sharon A Bong) The Twilight of Duality: Anti-religious Discourse and Eastern Spirituality in Vedic Metal (by Ujval Singh Sidhu-Brar; Supervisor: Dr Sharon A Bong). Globalization and Social Policies in Singapore: Towards a New Era of Social Welfare? (by Abdullah Bafadhal; Supervisor: Dr Helen Nesadurai) The Re-fashioning of Hindu Mythology in Selected Texts in relation to the Indian Disapora (by Nikhil Singh Jassal; Supervisor: Dr Andrew Ng) Re-conceptualising a Cyborg Ecology of Practice in Free and Open Source Communities (by Anna Filippova; Supervisor: Dr Patricia Goon).
  2006	Mak Nyahs: Constructed Subjectivity at the Margins of Desire (by Chung Jia Xin; Supervisor: Dr Andrew Ng) An Assessment of Community Based Ecotourism in Two Orang Asli Communities (by Puah Sze Ning; Supervisor: Dr Patricia Goon) Educating Working Children, Mobilising Society: The Problems of Non-formal Education for Child Labour in Bangladesh (by Eram Yusof; Supervisors: Dr Jaganathan Matimuthu and Dr Helen Nesadurai). Paradoxes of Sepet: Hybridity, Women and the ‘Bangsa Malaysia’ Dilemma (by Melissa Wong; Supervisor: Dr Andrew Ng) Of Rabbits and Boys: Education and the Crisis of Masculinity in the Peter Rabbit Quartet (by Kam Shi Ying; Supervisor: Dr Andrew Ng) Construction of Self: Subversion of Service Provider/Sex Worker Binarism through a Deconstructive Reading of Embodied Narratives (by Sarah Jane Cheong; Supervisor: Dr Sharon A Bong) Digital Film as an Expression of Cyborg Spirituality (by Tan Meng Yoe; Supervisor: Dr Patricia Goon) Deleuze and Postmodern Piracy: A Philosophical Enquiry (by Tee May Yee; Supervisor: Dr Andrew Ng)
  2005	Spiritual Persuasions: On Loving and Leaving the Church (by Natalie Leow; Supervisor: Dr Sharon A Bong) Performing Beyond Spaces: Politics of Resistance in the Articulation of Lesbian Sexuality Online (by Juliha bee Mohammed; Supervisor: Dr Patricia Goon)
  2004	Embodying Abjection: The Gypies in the European Imagination (by Hong Jayeen; Supervisor: Dr Andrew Ng)   Hegemony and Resistance among Singaporean Malay-Muslims: A Case Study of the Straits Times Reporting of the Madrasah and Tudung Issues (by Siti Mariam Goh; Supervisor: Dr Yeoh Seng Guan).
  2003	Indie Noise: A Study of Chinese Underground Music in Malaysia (by Liew Shao Yi; Supervisor: Dr Patricia Goon) Inheritance and Resistance: A study on the Discourse of Race and Formation of Malay Identity (by Wong Li Li; Supervisor: Dr Yeoh Seng Guan) Theatre Culture: The Representation of Cultural Identity in Modern English-language Plays in Malaysia (by Cheryl Ganeson; Supervisor: Dr Allison Craven)  The Representation of Hysterical Women and Men in Ally McBeal, Sex in the City, and Friends (by Tan Bee Choo; Supervisor: Dr Allison Craven)  Reality East and West: The Matrix, Hinduism, Postmodernism (by Sudheesh Sri Bakhshi; Supervisor: Dr Andrew Ng).