Cheryl Julia Lee is an Assistant Professor with the English department at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests include Southeast Asian literature and culture, contemporary Irish literature, and the dialogue between aesthetics and ethics. She has been published in Textual Practice and Asiatic. She is also currently the critical editor of prose.sg.
Abstract for “A Reading of Merlinda Bobis’s Fish-Hair Woman Corpus”
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