Research Supervisor Connect
Shawna Tang joined the Department in 2018 as Lecturer in Gender Studies. She has held individual postdoctoral fellowships at the Sexualities and Genders Research group (SaGR) at Western Sydney University, and the Asia Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She has worked at the NUS Sociology department and was Deputy Editor of International Sociology. She has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Sociology, and is currently on the editorial boards of the Hong Kong University Press'Queer Asia series, Feminist Theory,Australian Feminist Studies and the Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities.
Gender and Cultural Studies, School of Humanities (SOH)
Dr Shawna Tang's research lies in the nexus of sexuality, gender and race, with a focus on postcolonial Singapore, and Asia. Specifically, she studies how queer identities, communities and politics need to take seriously questions of race, nationalism, capitalism and geopolitics. She is the author of Postcolonial Lesbian Identities in Singapore. Her theoretical and methodological investments in feminist, Marxist, critical race and queer cultural studies guide her research projects on sexuality studies in Asia; non-normative female sexualities and relations in Singapore; the globalisation of same-sex marriage and LGBT politics in Singapore and Indonesia; older lesbian sexualities in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore; gender and cultural politics in Australia as part of Asia; and transmasculine boyhoods. Shawna brings to the Boys Studiesproject analyses of transgender boyhood from a critical race and queer studies perspective. She is also developing new work on queerness-as-methodology in understanding postcolonial Singapore and the queer Chinese diasporic community in Australia.
Shawna welcomes supervision in theorisations of queerness in different areas.
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The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3145