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Dr Andrew Ng Hock Soon Ph.D. (Literature, Western Australia) M.A (Literature, University Malaya)
Biography My primary research in the area of Gothic studies has encouraged a lateral approach in reading and theorizing literature. Increasingly, I am interested in rethinking the notion of space – especially nature – in horror narratives, and this framework currently informs my book project on late Victorian “weird tales” from an ecocritical perspective. Tentatively, the line up of writers whom I will be discussing in this monograph are M.R. James, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood and Walter de la Mare. My other area of research, postcolonial writing, will be pursued largely through a collection of essays that I will be guest editing for a journal that specializes in Malaysian studies, Kajian Malaysia. Contributors renown in this particular area of research, both local and international, have specially been approached, and each will write on a facet of anglophone Malaysian literature and its development in the contemporary scenario. Essays will range from the role of plays by youth in the socio-political structure of Malaysia and the status of anglophone Malaysian literature today, to those that discuss a specific genre (such as the autobiography), or writers, such as Shirley Lim, Tash Aw, and Salleh ben Joned. I am also involved in various edited book projects, and have been invited to contribute specifically to two: the first involves the presence of monsters in the literary tradition of Asia, and the other considers the role of gender and sexuality in contemporary British and American crime fiction.
Units Taught
Honours/Research Degrees Supervision
Publications Academic Publications Dimensions of Monstrosity in Contemporary Narratives: Theory, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism. Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave, 2004.
Edited Books The Poetics of Shadow: The Double in Literature and Philosophy. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag (2008).Asian Gothic: Essays in Literature, Film and Anime. NJ.: McFarland Pub., 2008.
Book Chapters “Theologizing Horror: Spirituality and the Gothic”, in Intersections between Christianity and Critical theory. Ed. Cassandra Falke. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010. 135-47."Nation and Religion in the Fiction of Lloyd Fernando”, in Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean and Malaysian Literature in English, Vol. 1. Eds. Mohammad A. Quayum and Wong Phui Nam.. Singapore: National Library board , 2009. 114-27. "Death and the Double: Gothic Aesthetics in Genesis 4. 1-16", in Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an as Literature and Culture. Ed. Roberta Sabbath. London: Brill. 107-13. “’Death and the Maiden’: The Pontianak as Excess in Malay Popular Culture”, in Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms: Essays on Gender, Race, and Genre , eds. Joan Picart and John E. Browning. . Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2009. 167-86 "Destruction and the Discourse of Deformity: Invisible Monsters and the Ethics of Atrocity", in Reading Chuck Palahniuk: American Monsters and Literary Mayhem. Eds. Cynthia Kuhn and Lance Rubin. London/New York: Routledge, 2009. 24-35. “Dangerous Charisma and the Devaluation of Religion in Lloyd Fernando’s Green is the Colour”, in Writing a Nation: Essays on Malaysian Literature. Eds. Mohammad A. Quayum and Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf. Kuala Lumpur: IIUM Press., 2009. 279-304. “Haunting Concubines”: Reading Su Tong’s ‘Raise the Red Lantern’ as Story about Ghosts Seeking Substitutes”. Ghost, Gender and History. Ed. Sladja Blazan. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. 41-59. "Gothic Illuminations of the Postmodern and Postcolonial Conditionsin Salman Rushdie's Fury", in Framing the Contemporary: British Asian Fictions. Eds. Neil Murphy and Sim Wai Chew. New York: Cambria Press, 2007.365-84. “At the Threshold of Eternity’: Religious Inversion in Peter Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor”. Race and Religion in the Postcolonial Detective Fiction. Ed. Julie Kim. Jefferson: McFarland Pub. 2005. 138–64.
Article in Journals (refereed) “Islam, Masculinity and the Crisis of Conversion in Lee Kok Liang’s ‘Ibrahim Something’”. Wasafiri, 26. 1 (2010).62-68."Islam and Modernity in the Works of Two Contemporary Malay Anglophone Writers”. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 44.3 (2009): 127-41. “Confronting the Modern: Kobo Abe’s The Box Man and Yumiko Kurahashi’s “The Witch Mask”. Criticism: A Journal of Literature and the Arts, 51.2 (2009): 311-331. “Subjecting Spaces: Angela Carter’s Love”. Contemporary Literature 49.3 (2008): 412-37. “The Vision of Hospitality in Lloyd Fernando’s Scorpion Orchid”. The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 44. 2 (2008): 171–81. “Revisiting Judges 19: A Gothic Perspective”, The Journal for the Studies of the Old Testament. 32.3 (2007). 199–215 “Tarrying with the Numinous: Postmodern Japanese Gothic Stories”, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 9. 2 (2007): 65–86. “The Wider Shores of Gothic”, Meanjin, 66.2 (2007): 149–56. “The Maternal Imagination in the Poetry of Shirley Lim”, Women: A Cultural Review, 18. 2 (2007): 162-81. “Adorno, Foucault, and Said: Toward a Multicultural Gothic Aesthetics”, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, 33.1 (forthcoming, May 2007). “Malaysian Gothic: The Motif of Haunting in K.S. Maniam’s “Haunting the Tiger” and Shirley Lim’s “Haunting”. Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 39. 2 (2006): 75 – 88. “Muscular Existentialism in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club”. Stirrings Still: An International Journal of Existential Literature, 2.2 (Winter/Fall 2005). 116 – 38 “A Tale from the Crypt: Arundathi Roy’s The God of Small Things”. Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 27. 2 (2005): 45 – 58. “Nationalism, Feminism and the Rupturing of the Binary: Reading Salman Rushdie’s Shame as Gothic”. Exit 9: Rutgers Journal of Comparative Literature, 7 (2005): 55 – 68. “Reading Asian American Literature as Gothic: Two Women’s Texts and the Resignification of an American Literary Heritage”. South East Asian Review of English, 46 (2005): 42 – 69. “Clearly Breathing Once Again: The State of Malaysian Literature in English”. South East Asian Review of English 45 (2003/4): 80 – 90. “Footbinding and Masochism: A Psychoanalytical Exploration”. Women Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 33.5 (June 2004): 651 – 76. “Politics of Deformed Bodies/Space in Adib Khan’s The Storyteller”. South East Asian Review of English 44 (Sept. 2001): 30 – 50. “The Paradox of Keda: A Postcolonial (Gothic) Reading of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast Trilogy”. Peake Studies 6:4 (2000).
Other Publications “A Cultural History of the Pontianak Films”, in New Malaysian Essays 2. Ed. Amir Muhammad. Kuala Lumpur: Matahari, 2009. 213-43. “K.S Maniam” and “Southeast Asian Fiction”, in The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century World Fiction. London: Blackwell. “Shirley Lim’s Monsoon History”. The Literary Encyclopedia. www. litencyc.com “Can Xue” and “Su Tong”, two entries in The Compendium of Twentieth Century World Novelists and Novels. Ed. Michael Sollars, New York: Facts on File Inc., 2007 |
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