Prof. TAY Eddie

Reading at a friend's poetry book launch	Title	Assistant Professor
	Tel	2609 7061
	Office	Fung King Hey 326
	Profile	BA, MA (NUS); PhD (HKU)
	E-mail	eddietay@cuhk.edu.hk

Administrative Post

• Convenor of Undergraduate Admissions Committee

Research Interests

• Eddie Tay's research interests are in the areas of creative writing as well as colonial and postcolonial Singaporean and Malaysian literatures written in English. His teaching interests include children's literature as well as the reading and writing of poetry.

Selected Publications

Books

• Colony, Nation, and Globalisation: Not at Home in Singaporean and Malaysian Literature. Hong Kong University Press, 2011; Singapore: NUS Press, 2011.

• The Mental Life of Cities. Hong Kong, Chameleon Press, 2010. Poetry collection.

• A Lover's Soliloquy. Hong Kong: Sixth Finger Press, 2005. Poetry collection, including free translations of Li Shang-yin. Published with grant support from National Arts Council (Singapore).

• Remnants. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2001. Poetry collection, including free translations of Li Po, Tu Fu and Li Ho. Published with grant support from National Arts Council (Singapore).

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• (with Eva Leung as second author) ˇ§On Learning, Teaching and the Pursuit of Creative Writing in Singapore and Hong Kongˇ¨. New Writing: The International Journal for the Theory and Practice of Creative Writing, 8:2 (2011): 103-113. Article supported by CUHK's Direct Grant for Research (Project Code: 201033)
  


• "Singaporean Fiction after 1965: A Critical Survey". Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature II. Ed. Gwee Li Sui; General Ed. Edwin Thumboo. Singapore: National Library Board, 2009. 197-215.

• "The Dispersal of Eurasian Identity and the Ethics of Remembrance: Rex Shelleyˇ¦s Eurasian Quartet". Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature I. Eds. Mohammad A. Quayum and Wong Phui Nam; General Ed. Edwin Thumboo. Singapore: National Library Board, 2009. 146-157.

• "Multiculturalisms, Mistranslations and Bilingual Poetry: On Writing as a Chinese". New Writing: The International Journal for the Theory and Practice of Creative Writing, 6:1 (2009): 5-14

• "Discourses of Difference: The Malaya of Isabella Bird, Emily Innes and Florence Caddy". Asian Crossings: Travel Writing on China, Japan and Southeast Asia. Eds. Steve Clark and Paul Smethurst. Hong Kong: HKU Press, 2008. 99-112.

• "'A Construction from Spare Parts': Inventing National Identity in Singapore". The Nation Across the World: Postcolonial Literary Representations. Eds. Harish Trivedi, Meenakshi Mukherjee, C. Vijayasree, C. and T. Vijay Kumar. New Delhi, India: OxfordUniversity Press, 2007. 213-229.

• "'There is no way out but through': Alienation and Interpolation in Lee Kok Liang's London Does Not Belong to Me and 'Return to Malaya'". New Literatures Review. No. 44 Oct 2005. 63-75.

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