Han Au Chua

Thesis Title: Writing Asians: Modernism, Colonial Literature, and the British Empire

Supervisor: Professor Rebecca Beasley

Han Au's DPhil research is on the works of twentieth-century British writers who wrote either from the Asian perspective or about culture and society of Asia including Burma (Myanmar), China, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, and Singapore. His thesis develops a new approach of reading colonial literature that is attuned to the anthropological, ethnographic, historical, and sociopolitical values of writing from the non-Western point of view in the modernist period.

Han Au's doctoral studies is supported by the HASS International PhD Scholarship (co-funded by Singapore's Ministry of Education and Nanyang Technological University). His work has been funded by research grants from the British Association for Modernist Studies, Exeter College, and Oxford's English Faculty. He has published and forthcoming work in Leonardo, Prose Studies, Textual Practice, The Modernist Review, and Woolf Studies Annual. Han Au holds an MSt in English (Distinction) from the University of Oxford, and a BA in English Literature (Honours with Highest Distinction) from the National University of Singapore.