Education

• PhD, Film Studies, University College London (UCL) - pending
• PG Dip (Distinction), Banking Law, Queen Mary University of London, 2004
• MA (Distinction), Film Studies, University College London (UCL), 2003
• LLB, Second (Upper) Honours, National University of Singapore, 2000

Research interests

• Digital and new technologies, cinephilia, time, memory, the ontology of the image. Also East Asian cinema, cross-culturality, comparative film studies.

Prizes, Scholarships, Awards

• UCL Graduate School Review Competition (joint 1st prize), 2005
• UCL Graduate School Research Scholarship, 2004-2007
• Overseas Research Scholarship Award, 2004-2007
• Director of the Commercial Law Centre Prize, 2004
• SCMS Student Writing Award (3rd prize), 2004
• UCL Graduate Open Scholarship, 2002
• Singapore Academy of Law Prize, 2000
• Faculty of Law Talent Development Programme, 1996-1997
• PROMSCHO Humanities Scholarship, 1994

Teaching

• "National Cinema, Cinema and History", MA Contemporary Italian Culture and History, 2006
• "CGI/Blockbusters", MA Film Studies, 2006
• "Journey to Italy", MA Film Studies, 2007

Publications

• "Virtual Cinematography and the Digital Real: (Dis)placing the Moving Image Between Reality and Simulacra", The State of the Real: Essays on Aesthetics, Damian Sutton, Ray McKenzie and Sue Brind (eds.), Tauris I.B, forthcoming.
• "Remembering History, Rewriting Memory: The Articulation of Platoon Through Mediation, Subjectivity and Myth", Cinemascope: Cinema and the Puzzle of Memory, Pierre Sorlin (ed.), Issue 5, May-Aug 2006.
• "Love in the Time of Transcultural Fusion: Cinephilia, Homage and Kill Bill", Cinephilia: Movies, Love and Memory, Marijke de Valck and Malte Hagener (eds.), Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2005, pp. 65-79.

Conference and Seminar Presentations

• "In Absentia: The Memorialisation of 9/11 in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 'Mexico' (11’09”01 – September 11)", 1st International Conference on Film and Memorialisation, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, 14-15 October 2006
• "Cinema and Epiphany", Graduate Student Presentation Seminar, Royal Holloway University of London, UK, 8-9 June 2006
• "Cinephilic Revelation: Aspects of the Cinematic Epiphany", British Federation of Women Graduates Research Presentation Day, London, UK, 13 May 2006
• "The Impulse of Pleasure: Cinephilia as Epiphany", Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2-5 March 2006
• "Digital Cinema and Ontology", Graduate Student Presentation Seminar, Royal Holloway University of London, UK, 26-27 May 2005
• "The Cinephilic Impulse of Digital Cinema", Cinema and Technology, Lancaster University, Institute for Cultural Research, UK, 6-9 April 2005
• "Negotiating Between-ness: Towards a Comparative Strategy in Theorizing Cross Culturality in Cinema", Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, London, UK, 31 March-3 April 2005
• "'I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For': De-constructing the Hybridity of the Docudrama", Journeys Across Media (JAM), University of Reading, UK, 23 April 2004
• "How We See What We Do Not See: De-constructing Absence in Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love", Theories and Practices of Film, Graduate Student Conference, University College London, UK, 28 February 2004
• "The Cinematic Unreal: Re-visiting the Real/Virtual Dialectic of Cinema in the Digital Era", The State of the Real, Glasgow School of Art, UK, 21-22 November 2003
• "Knowing No Bounds: A Philosophical Discussion on Trans cultural Cinephilia in relation to Context, Identity and Selfhood", Cinephilia Take-Two: Re-mastering, Re-purposing, Re-framing, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 16-17 June 2003