Su Fang Ng Published in Three Books; Gave Keynote at Early Modern Conference
May 1, 2019
Su Fang Ng, the Clifford A. Cutchins III Professor in the Department of English, published the following: Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia: Peripheral Empires in the Global Renaissance (Oxford; Oxford University Press, 2019); “Resistance,” A Cultural History of Western Empires, Vol. 3 The Renaissance, ed. Ania Loomba, gen. ed. Antoinette Burton, Bloomsbury Cultural History series (London: Bloomsbury Academic, UK, 2018), pp. 181–202; and “Genealogical Memory: Constructing Female Rule in Seventeenth-Century Aceh,” Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World, ed. Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018), pp. 135–57.
In addition, Ng gave a keynote lecture titled “Alexander and Fictions of Worldmaking from Britain to Southeast Asia” at the Early Modern Conference, which was held February 22–23 at the University of California at Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, California.