Dr. Grace Chin Voon Sheong

Research

• The Chinese woman in the Malay World: Silence, space, and body in the literatures of Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei Darussalam (monograph project)
• Literary representations of the Indonesian Chinese woman in Chinese-Malay fiction (article)
• Appropriating Kartini: Colonial, national and transnational memories of an Indonesian icon (collaborative project / edited volume of papers)
• Translational politics: Contesting race, gender and sexuality in Southeast Asian literature (collaborative project / edited volume of papers)
• Between Han Suyin and Shirley Geok-lin Lim: Linking Malaysian and Hong Kong literatures in English (part of an international collaborative project titled Creative Cultures of Anglophone Southeast and East Asia: Mapping Literary Networks)

Publication

Book

1. Chin, G. V. S., & Kathrina Mohd Daud. (Eds.). (In press). The Southeast Asian woman writes back: Gender, identity, and nation in the literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. Dordrecht: Springer. Link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-10-7065-5
2. Chin, G. V. S. (Ed.) (2012). In the spotlight: An anthology of Bruneian plays in English. Brunei Darussalam: Creative Industries Research Cluster, Universiti Brunei Darussalam.

Chapter in Book

1. Chin, G. V. S. (In press). State Ibuism and “One happy family”: Polygamy and the “good” woman in contemporary Indonesian narratives. In G. V. S. Chin & Kathrina Mohd Daud (eds.), The Southeast Asian woman writes back: Gender, identity, and nation in the literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. Dordrecht: Springer. Link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-7065-5_6
2. Chin, G. V. S. (In press). Counter-Narratives of the Nation: Writing the Modern Brunei Malay Woman. In G. V. S. Chin & Kathrina Mohd Daud (Eds.), The Southeast Asian woman writes back: Gender, identity, and nation in the literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. Dordrecht: Springer. Link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-7065-5_8
3. Chin, G. V. S. (2014). Co-constructing a community of creative writers: Exploring L2 identity formations through Bruneian playwriting. In D. Disney (Ed.), Exploring second language creative writing: Beyond Babel (pp. 119-138). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
4. Chin, G. V. S. (2009). Allegorical revisions of the censored subject: Ambivalent spaces of transformation in Beth Yahp’s The crocodile fury. In G. M. Socarrás (Ed.), Philological explorations (pp. 191-200). Athens, Greece: Athens Institute for Education and Research.
5. Chin, G. V. S. (2007). New generation writings in English: Discursive conditions and literary revival in Malaysia 1996-2005. In D. Prescott (Ed.), English in Southeast Asia: Varieties, literacies and literatures (pp. 260-289). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
6. Kathrina Mohd Daud, Chin, G. V. S., & Maslin Jukim. (2016). Contemporary English and Malay literature in Brunei: A comparison. In Noor Azam Haji-Othman, J. McLellan, & D. Deterding (Eds.), The use and status of language in Brunei Darussalam: A kingdom of unexpected linguistic diversity (pp. 241-251). Dordrecht: Springer.

Article in Journal

1. Chin, G. V. S., & Hoogervorst, T. (forthcoming). From Soetji to Soendel: Negotiating race, class and gender in a Netherlands Indies newspaper. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific 41.
2. Chin, G. V. S. (2016). Bruneian women’s writing as an emergent minor literature in English. In Special issue: English in Brunei Darussalam, eds. J. McLellan & G. V. S. Chin. World Englishes 35(4), 587-601. Retrieved from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/weng.12228/full
3. Chin, G. V. S., & Kathrina Haji Mohd Daud. (2015). Negotiating difference: The trope of “anak derhaka” and ideological endings in Bruneian writings. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 50(2), 101-114. Retrieved from: http://jcl.sagepub.com/content/50/2/101
4. Chin, G. V. S. (2012). Imagined subjects: Polygamy, gender and nation in Nia Dinata's Love for share. Journal of International Women's Studies 13(3), 137-152. Retrieved from: http://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol13/iss3/10/
5. Chin, G. V. S., Ho, D., & Sharifah Nurulhuda Alkaff. (2012). The teaching of English literature in the Bruneian ESL secondary classroom: A preliminary investigation. The International Journal of Learning 18(9), 117-134.
6. Chin, G. V. S. (2009). Voicing the censored self: Reinscriptions of un-freedom in Suchen Christine Lim’s Fistful of colours. The International Journal of the Humanities 7(9), 19-28.
7. Chin, G. V. S. (2009). Reading the postcolonial allegory in Beth Yahp's The crocodile fury: Censored subjects, ambivalent spaces, and transformative bodies. Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies 6.1 (March), 93-115. Retrieved from: http://www.nobleworld.biz/nebulajmsarchives/nebula61.html
8. Chin, G. V. S. (2007). Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam: A comparative study of literary developments in English. Asian Englishes: An International Journal of Sociolinguistics of English in Asia / Pacific 10(2), 8-29.
9. Chin, G. V. S. (2006). The anxieties of authorship in Malaysian and Singaporean writings in English: Locating the English language writer and the question of freedom in the postcolonial era. Postcolonial Text 2(4), 1-24. Retrieved from: http://postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article/view/474/365
10. Chin, G. V. S. (2005/2006). Expressions of self-censorship: Ambivalence and difference in Malaysian and Singaporean Chinese women’s prose writings in English. South-East Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal 6(1), 13-34. 
11. Chin, G. (1999, May). Angry ghosts: The furious power of the marginalized other in Beth Yahp's The crocodile fury. Outskirts: Feminisms Along the Edge 4. Retrieved from: http://www.chloe.uwa.edu.au/outskirts/archive/volume4
12. McLellan, J., & Chin, G. V. S. (2016). Introduction: English in Brunei Darussalam. In Special issue: English in Brunei Darussalam, eds. J. McLellan & G. V. S. Chin. World Englishes 35(4), 492-496. Retrieved from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/weng.12220/full
13. McLellan, J., & Chin, G. V. S. (Eds.). (2016). A research bibliography for Brunei English. In Special issue: English in Brunei Darussalam, eds. J. McLellan & G. V. S. Chin. World Englishes 35(4), 612-617. Retrieved from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/weng.12230/full
14. McLellan, J., & Chin, G. V. S. (Eds.). (2016). Special issue: English in Brunei Darussalam. World Englishes 35(4), 489-634. Retrieved from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/weng.2016.35.issue-4/issuetoc

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