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Eddie TAY

Associate Professor
B.A., M.A.(NUS); Ph.D. (HKU)

Tel 3943 7061
Email eddietay@cuhk.edu.hk
Office Fung King Hey 323

Administrative Post:
Director, Research Centre for Human Values


Between the Lines: Hong Kong Poetry in English
 

Teaching
ENGE 2360 Children’s Literature
ENGE 3260 Creative Writing
ENGE 3290 Reading Poetry
Writing, Photography and Social Media
 
Research Interests
Creative writing; autoethnography; street photography; Singaporean and Malaysian literature; postcolonial literature
 
Selected Publications
List of major publications
2024
Creative Practice as a Way of Life: After Barthes. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave, 2024.
2023
Eddie Tay and Jennifer Wong, editors. State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation. London: Out-Spoken Press, 2023.
2023
Hong Kong as Creative Practice. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave, 2023. Fully supported by Research Grants Council - General Research Fund, Project number: 14607219
2020
Evelyn Tsz Yan Chan, Flora Ka Yu Mak, Thomas Siu Ho Yau, Yutong Hu, Michael O’Sullivan, Eddie Tay. The Value of the Humanities in Higher Education: Perspectives from Hong Kong. Singapore: Springer, 2020.
2018
Anything You Can Get Away With: Creative Practices. Delere Press, 2018. Supported by Publication Subvention Fund for 2017-2018, provided by the Faculty of Arts, CUHK.
2016
Dreaming Cities. Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2016. Poetry and street photography collection.
2011
Colony, Nation, and Globalisation: Not at Home in Singaporean and Malaysian Literature. Hong Kong University Press, 2011; Singapore: NUS Press, 2011.
2010
The Mental Life of Cities. Hong Kong: Chameleon Press, 2010. Poetry collection. Awarded Singapore Literature Prize 2012 (English Category).
2005
A Lover’s Soliloquy. Hong Kong: Sixth Finger Press, 2005. Poetry collection, including free translations of Li Shang-yin. Published with grant support from National Arts Council (Singapore).
2001
Remnants. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2001. Poetry collection, including free translations of Li Po, Tu Fu and Li Ho. Published with grant support from National Arts Council (Singapore).
List of selected publications
2023
"The Department Poet: On Institutional Demands, on Writing from the Heart”. Eds. Dean A. F. Gui and Dora Wong. The Power of Storytelling in Teaching Practices: Narratives from Hong Kong and Afar. London: Routledge, 2023. pp. 86-108.
2023
Li-Young Lee, Jennifer Wong and Eddie Tay. "Work in Progress". Tay and Jennifer Wong, editors. State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation. London: Out-Spoken Press, 2023. 103-122.
2021
"On being derailed, on aesthetic responsiveness in Hong Kong". New Writing: The International Journal for the Theory and Practice of Creative Writing. Online version https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2021.1970190
2019
"K. S. Maniam and Tash Aw", Ed. Alex Tickell. The Novel in South and South East Asian since 1945. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2019. pp. 522-535.
2017
"A Luxury We Cannot Afford: The Poetry of Yong Shu Hoong, Toh Hsien Min, and Boey Kim Cheng", Angelia Poon and Angus Whitehead (eds), Singapore Literature and Culture: Current Directions in Local and Global Contexts. New York and London: Routledge, 2017. pp. 62-81.
2016
"Writing photography, seeing poetry and creative writing scholarship". New Writing. Online version http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2016.1184685. Vol 13, No. 3, 2016. pp. 387-401.
2016
"The medium is the massage: Writing, reading and the work of Singaporean literature in the age of social media". The Future of English in Asia: Perspectives on Language and Literature. Edited by Michael O’Sullivan, David Huddart and Carmen Lee. pp.128-139. New York and London: Routledge, 2016.
2014
"Hong Kong Writing and Culture: Community and Fault Lines". Introduction to guest edited Special Section on Hong Kong Literature. Asiatic. Vol. 8, No. 2. Dec 2014. pp. 1-2.
2014
"Curriculum as Cultural Critique: Creative Writing Pedagogy in Hong Kong". Ed. Dan Disney. Exploring Second Language Creative Writing: Beyond Babel. Philadelphia, USA: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. 103-118.
2014
"On Places and Spaces: The Possibilities of Teaching Arthur Yap". Common Lines and City Spaces: A Critical Anthology on Arthur Yap. Ed. Gui Weihsin. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014. 96-113.
2013
"Superficiality, Mythification, and Irreality: Towards a Writing Practice". New Ideas in the Writing Arts. Ed. Graeme Harper. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. pp.113-126.
2013
"Marechera, the Tree-Poem-Artifact". Reading Marechera. Ed. Grant Hamilton. Suffolk: James Currey, 2013. pp. 172-186
2012
"Street Meditations: On Poetry, Street Photography and Everyday Life in Hong Kong". Asiatic, Vol. 6 Number 2. Dec 2012. pp. 31-44.
2010-2011
"The Singapore Writers Festival: Global Identity, Cultural Policy and the Post-Independence Literary Landscape". Southeast Asian Review of English. Special Issue: Malaysian and Singaporean Literature. No. 50. 2010/2011. 121-132.
2011
(with Eva Leung as second author) "On Learning, Teaching and the Pursuit of Creative Writing in Singapore and Hong Kong". New Writing: The International Journal for the Theory and Practice of Creative Writing, 8:2 (2011): 103-113. Article supported by CUHK’s Direct Grant for Research (Project Code: 201033)
2009
“Multiculturalisms, Mistranslations and Bilingual Poetry: On Writing as a Chinese”. New Writing: The International Journal for the Theory and Practice of Creative Writing, 6:1 (2009): 5-14. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14790720902898699
2009
“Singaporean Fiction after 1965: A Critical Survey”. Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature II. Ed. Gwee Li Sui; General Ed. Edwin Thumboo. Singapore: National Library Board, 2009. 197-215.
2009
“The Dispersal of Eurasian Identity and the Ethics of Remembrance: Rex Shelley’s Eurasian Quartet”. Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature I. Eds. Mohammad A. Quayum and Wong Phui Nam; General Ed. Edwin Thumboo. Singapore: National Library Board, 2009. 146-157.
2008
“Discourses of Difference: The Malaya of Isabella Bird, Emily Innes and Florence Caddy”. Asian Crossings: Travel Writing on China, Japan and Southeast Asia. Eds. Steve Clark and Paul Smethurst. Hong Kong: HKU Press, 2008. 99-112.
2007
“‘A Construction from Spare Parts’: Inventing National Identity in Singapore”. The Nation Across the World: Postcolonial Literary Representations. Eds. Harish Trivedi, Meenakshi Mukherjee, C. Vijayasree, C. and T. Vijay Kumar. New Delhi, India: Oxford UP, 2007. 213-229.
2005
“‘There is no way out but through’: Alienation and Interpolation in Lee Kok Liang's London Does Not Belong to Me and ‘Return to Malaya’”. New Literatures Review. No. 44 Oct 2005. 63-75.
2005
“Hegemony, National Allegory, Exile: The Poetry of Shirley Lim”. Textual Practice. Vol. 19. Issue 3. Sept 2005. 289-308. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09502360500196250
2005
“In America: The Alien Asian and the Cosmopolitan Chic”. Southeast Asian Review of English. No. 46 Apr 2005. 123-142.
2003
“Unsettling Ways of Exile: The Unhomely in the Poetry of Wong Phui Nam”. Complicities: Connections and Divisions. Eds. Chitra Sankaran, Liew-Geok Leong and Rajeev S. Patke. Bern: Peter Lang, 2003. 179-188.

Research Grants and Awards
2023-2025
Research Impact Coordinator. Received Outstanding Research Impact Award (ORIA) from Faculty of Arts, CUHK. Submitted Promoting Creative Practices impact case study together with colleague's Multilingual Research impact case study; received HKD413, 000 to support both impact case studies.
2021-2022
Research Impact Coordinator, Project Impact Enhancement Fund (2nd Instalment) from Faculty of Arts, CUHK. To engage writers and creative arts practitioners in impactful activities that benefit society. Awarded HKD 210, 000.
2019-2020
Principal Investigator, Thinking and Feeling Hong Kong (Research Grants Council - General Research Fund), Project number: 14607219, Exercise Year: 2019/20, Project Duration: 24 months. HKD 164,740 including earmarked item of HKD 124,740 for Relief Teacher.
2017-2019
Co-Investigator, The Humanities in Higher Education in Hong Kong: Implications for Society and the Individual (Research Grants Council - General Research Fund), Project Code: U616494, 01-01-2017 to 31-05-2019. HKD 753,500.00.
2009-2010
Principal Investigator, Cultural Policies, the Literary Community and Creative Writing in Singapore (Project Code: AL08808), CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Grants) 01-04-2009 to 31-03-2010, HKD 47,312.