Reading Violence and Trauma in Asia and the World

Yiru Lim is a Senior Lecturer at the College of Interdisciplinary and Experiential Learning at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. Her main research interests include ekphrasis, narrative and the imagination, and stories of illness and pain, and those of vulnerable groups. She has published in the Review of Irish Studies in Europe (RISE) and was co-author of Coal Mining and Gentrification in Japan published in 2019.

Kit Ying Lye is currently Senior Lecturer at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. Her dissertation focuses on the use of magical realism in the representation of Cold War violence in Southeast Asian literature. Her research interests are, mainly, the Cold War in Southeast Asia, history and its remembrance, death in Southeast Asian literature and culture, and Southeast Asian Cultural Heritage. She has published works that discuss the use of literature to represent civil wars in Southeast Asia. She is also the principal investigator of the research project on Singapore Chinese Funerary Practices. She is the co-editor of Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City (Routledge).