{"id":66,"date":"2022-12-20T11:15:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T11:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brandonliew.com\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:52:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:52:49","slug":"doctoral-researcher","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brandonliew.com\/index.php\/doctoral-researcher\/","title":{"rendered":"doctoral researcher<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What is a \nGlobal Malaysian Novel?<\/strong>\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>
\n
When a Malaysian novel is written, published, distributed and sold outside Malaysian borders, to what extent is it still a Malaysian novel?\n\nMy doctoral dissertation explores contemporary transnational cultural productions in Southeast Asia in relation to both local literary histories and wider Western-based frameworks such as World and Postcolonial Literature. I chart the history of Malaysian literary discourse over three centuries in order to make sense of the contemporary.\n\nThis project is supported by the School of Culture & Communication at the University of Melbourne. It is funded by the Australian Department of Education Research and Training Programme (RTP).<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n
\u200b<\/strong>\nPeer-reviewed Publications<\/strong>\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>
\n
August 2025
Liew, Brandon K. and Daryl Lim Wei Jie. \"Critical Introduction.\" In the Mirror<\/em>: New and Selected Poems of Wong Phui Nam,<\/em> edited by Brandon K. Liew and Daryl Lim Wei Jie, National University of Singapore Press, 2025. 

'Memory of Khorason', 2005, by Latiff Mohidin. Used as book cover with permissions.

<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>
\n
Liew, Brandon K. 2021. \u201cThe Unquiet Dreams of Lesser Malaysian Writers: Tradition and the Global Malaysian Novel\u201d. Archiv orient\u00e1ln\u00ed 89 (2), 283-310. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.47979\/aror.j.89.2.283-310. \u200b 

Cited by Theo D'haen in A History of World Literature<\/em> published by Routledge.
29 May 2024
DOI: 10.4324\/9781003366713
ISBN: 9781003366713

Cited by Kuei-fen Chiu & T\u00e1\u0148a Dluho\u0161ov\u00e1 
14 October 2021 
DOI: 10.47979\/aror.j.89.2.223-236 \u200b 

\"Brandon Liew, in his essay \u201cThe Unquiet Dreams of Lesser Malaysian Writers: Tradition and the Global Malaysian Novel,\u201d introduces another perspective which is crucial for discussion of Asian literatures and cultures, namely postcolonial discourse. The article addresses the complexity of this question within the context of multilingual and multicultural Malaysia. Some of the most prominent transnational Malaysian writers, such as Tash Aw and Tan Twan Eng, use English for their literary production. Others such as Lee Yungping, Ng Kim Chew, and Chang Kuei-hsing, use Chinese. Any discussion of the success stories of these writers in the English or Chinese\/Sinophone worlds would benefit from consideration of the uncongenial publishing environment for minority writers like them in a country where national literature is defined as literature in Malay. How can we study the global Malaysian novel as world literature without overlooking its relationship to the threefold entanglement of tradition, nation, and language? Liew\u2019s article reveals the intricate tension between national literature and world literature.\"<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>
\n
Liew, Brandon K. \u201cEngmalchin and the Plural Imaginings of Malaysia; or, the \u2019Arty-Crafty Dodgers of Reality.\u201d Exclamat!On: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2 (June 2018): 94\u2013120.\n\u200b\nCited by Poetry.sg\n11 June 2021\nCritical Introduction of Wang Gungwu\nWritten by Jonathan Chan\nhttp:\/\/www.poetry.sg\/wang-gungwu-intro\n\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n
\n
Academic Publications<\/mark>
<\/strong>2025<\/sup><\/mark>
In the Mirror<\/em>: New and Selected Poems of Wong Phui Nam,<\/em> edited by Brandon K. Liew and Daryl Lim Wei Jie, NUS Press

<\/mark>2021<\/sub>
Archiv Orientalni: Journal of African & Asian Studies<\/strong>
\"The Unquiet Dreams of Lesser Writers: Tradition and the Global Malaysian Novel\"
Vol 89
pgs\u00a035-61

2018<\/sub>
Exclamat!On: An Interdisciplinary Journal<\/strong>
\"Engmalchin; or, the 'Arty-Crafty Dodgers of Reality'\"
Vol 1
pgs 94-120

Public Affiliations
<\/strong>\u200b
Persatuan Penulis Malaysia (Malaysian Writers Society)

Asian Art Dialogue (AAD)

Melbourne-Monash Asian Studies Group (MMASG)

Culture & Communications Graduate Committee (CCGC)

Asian Studies Association Australia (ASAA)

Malaysia & Singapore Society of Australia (MASSA)

Modern Language Association (MLA)

American Comparative Literature Society (ACLA)



\u200b


\u200b

\u200b

<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
Conference Papers<\/strong>
2025<\/sup>
Lloyd Fernando Seminar Series, Universiti Malaya<\/strong>
\"Reading Cultures in Conflict\"<\/em>
Malaysia

2024
<\/sub>International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS)<\/strong>
\"Working along the archival grain: Building, preserving and sharing independent art archives and cultural material in Indonesia, Malaysia and Australia.\"
Surabaya

2023<\/sub>
Modern Language Association (MLA)<\/strong>
\"Global Markets, Local Stories: A history of Malayan literature as a literature of Malayan history\"
San Francisco

2022<\/sub>
American Comparative Literature Association<\/strong>
\"A Sundaland of Publishing: Malaysian Literature as Global Literature\"
National Taiwan Normal University

2021<\/sub>
Texts & their limits: Australian Triennial Literary Studies Convention<\/strong>
\"Malaysian Literature in the context of a National Tradition\"
Victoria University

English & Theatre Seminar Series<\/strong>
\"Malaysian Literary History through T.S. Eliot\"
University of Melbourne

2020<\/sub>

Asia at the Crossroads: Ruptures and Hopes<\/strong>
\u201cThe Unquiet Dreams of Lesser Malaysian Writers\"
Melbourne-Monash Asian Studies Group

21st Malaysia and Singapore Society of Australia (MASSA) Symposium\u00a0<\/strong>
\u201cThe Cosmopolitan\u00a0Imaginings of Malaya\u201d
Malaysia and Singapore Studies Society

2019<\/sub><\/strong>
Annual Research Conference<\/strong>
\u201cThe Death of Malaysian Literature in English\u201d\u00a0
University of Exeter

<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
Scholarly Dissertations
<\/strong>\u200b
PhD <\/strong>
The Global Malaysian Novel
The University of Melbourne

Masters 
<\/strong>Malaysian Novels in English:
Criticism, Context, Conceptualisation
The University of Exeter



<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What is a  Global Malaysian Novel? When a Malaysian novel is written, published, distributed and sold outside Malaysian borders, to what extent is it still a Malaysian novel? My doctoral dissertation explores contemporary transnational cultural productions in Southeast Asia in relation to both local literary histories and wider Western-based frameworks such as World and Postcolonial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonliew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonliew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonliew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonliew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonliew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/brandonliew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/brandonliew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonliew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}