I am presently a Nanyang Assistant Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University Singapore. More information about this named tenure-track appointment, which is accompanied by a start-up grant of up to S$1 million, can be found here.
I am also the current president of The Southeast Asian Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (SASECS), an official constituent society of The International Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS). In 2024, I was the recipient of the MOE START Inauguration Grant.
Previously, I was a Lecturer at Princeton University, where I taught in the Writing Program. I received my MA and PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and my BA from the National University of Singapore. My research and teaching focus on the intersections between literature and science, with a particular interest in how seventeenth- and eighteenth-century beliefs about these two fields continue to shape us today. My work is published in Configurations, Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture, and ELH.
A smattering of things that intrigue me can be found at my blog.