Selected Publications
My research explores Asian Anglophone and Asian American literatures, postcolonial theory, and the cultural histories of capitalism. I am the author of Becoming Global Asia: Contemporary Genres of Postcolonial Capitalism in Singapore, and I am currently at work on a second book project that extends these interests.
My articles have appeared in journals such as biography, Genre, and Verge, as well as edited collections like The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics and Singapore Literature and Culture: Current Directions in Local and Global Contexts.
Book
Becoming Global Asia: Contemporary Genres of Postcolonial Capitalism
University of California Press, 2023
Articles
Writing Postcolonial Capitalism
for The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics, 2022
Critical Introduction to Lydia Kwa
for prose.sg, 2018
Literature and Postcolonial Capitalism
Special issue of ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 49.4, edited by Cheryl Narumi Naruse, Sunny Xiang, and Shashi Thandra, 2018
Global Asia Periscope Dossier for Social Text
Edited by Nadine Chan and Cheryl Narumi Naruse, 2018
Singapore as Strategic Location: Setting and Positionality in Goh Poh Seng’s If We Dream Too Long and Lydia Kwa’s Pulse
in Current Directions in Singapore Literature and Culture: Local and Global Contexts, edited by Angelia Poon and Angus Whitehead, 2017
Hwee Hwee Tan’s Mammon Inc. as Bildungsroman, or the Coming-of-Career Narrative
in Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 49.1, 2016
Bodies That Map: Overseas Singaporeans and the Urban Imagination
Verge: Studies in Global Asias 2.1, 2016
Overseas Singaporeans, Coming-of-Career Narratives, and the Corporate Nation
biography: an Interdisciplinary Quarterly 37.1, 2014
Singapore at 50: At the Intersections of Neoliberal Globalization and Postcoloniality
Special issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 18.4 edited by Cheryl Narumi Naruse and Weihsin Gui