Event

Title:

“Reading Asian American Literature from Ohio to Singapore"

Date:

09/24/2009

Time:

04:30 PM - 05:30 PM

Location:

311 Denney Hall

Description:

The Asian American Studies Program is please to present:

Dr. Walter S. H. Lim

“Reading Asian American Literature from Ohio to Singapore—notes from a comparative perspective”

Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009

4:30 – 5:30 p.m.

311 Denney Hall

After receiving his PhD from the University of Toronto (Canada), Walter S. H. Lim taught at Hiram College (Ohio) before moving on to the National University of Singapore, where he is presently Deputy Head (Literature) in the Department of English Language and Literature. Lim teaches English Renaissance Literature and Asian American Literature, and has published articles on such diverse topics as Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, and Asian American Literature. He is the author of two books: The Arts of Empire: The Poetics of Colonialism from Ralegh to Milton (University of Delaware Press, 1998) and John Milton, Radical Politics, and Biblical Republicanism (University of Delaware Press, 2006). He is also co-editor with Debra Johanyak (University of Akron Wayne College) of a volume of essays, The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia, forthcoming in 2010 from Palgrave Macmillan. For more information, visit http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/elllimw/.

Contact:

ponce.8@osu.edu

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