I supervise graduate students who conduct primarily qualitative research on diverse issues pertaining to gender and sexuality, including digital intimacy, online feminism, embodiment, LGBTQ+ issues, gender and technology, (social) media representations of women, and East Asian popular culture and fandom.

Below are some of their profiles.

Zishan Lai (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Communications and New Media (CNM) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Her interests include digital intimacy, East Asian popular culture and fandom, lying at the intersection of feminism and media & cultural studies. Her ongoing dissertation project is about understanding how Chinese women’s love and intimacy relate to the otome games (female-targeted dating simulation games), and to the political economy in which they are embedded. She has published in Information, Communication & Society and Games and Culture.

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Angela Louise C. Rosario (she/her) is a PhD student in the Department of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She received her MA in Japanese Studies from the Ateneo de Manila University, where she analysed Japanese women’s representation under the Allied Occupation Period, and worked as a Part-Time Lecturer. Her current research interests include a combination of gender, media, and cultural studies. For her dissertation, she is currently exploring how the affordances and marketing of Japanese female technology (“femtech” such as period-tracker apps) factor in the users’ meaning-making and affective practices in relation to their identities, sexualities, and relationships. She has published in Comparative Sociology, Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia, and Silva Iaponicarum.

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Alexis Tong (she/her) is a Master’s by Research student in the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences (Hons) from the same university. Her research interests include LGBTQ+ media, East Asian popular culture, and fandom. Her ongoing thesis examines the identities and social practices of Singaporean Chinese women who are fans of danmei (Chinese Boys’ Love). Outside academia, she is passionate about rescuing and helping cats in her local community.

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