republished from The Conversation, 22 March 2017 The newly elected Western Australia premier, Mark McGowan, has appointed the state’s first minister for Asian engagement, Bill Johnston. The appointment shows that […]
The paper that follows this is one I wrote a few years back and tried for months and months to have published by academic journals. As must be obvious, it […]
I have never written and published in fiction so this piece in Peril Magazine is a first for me. I am grateful to Peril for accepting it. Titled, Latter-Day Danger […]
(republished here under Creative Commons, originally published at the East Asian Forum) 18 March 2016 Not long ago, the Malaysian government thought that mastery of the internet was a path […]
Very recently, I was very privileged but also highly relieved to be part of an editorial team that launched a new journal. Named Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, the first […]
Early in 2015 I had the opportunity to work with Associate Professor Terence Lee (Murdoch University) and put together the proposal for a new book series to be published by […]
Where do you start? It all depends on your point of departure, do you know which publisher you are sending the proposal to or is this a pre-approach proposal? If […]
New Media and the Nation in Malaysia: Malaysianet, what does a first-time author say about her first monograph? A review of someone else’s book is fairly routine but one’s own? […]
It’s been a few months since I last taught an undergraduate class and that’s given me time to reflect on my teaching style. I’ve always maintained that my job as […]
The first copy of my monograph was sitting in my pigeonhole at work this morning. It’s hot off the press and hopefully is going to make me a millionaire (not!). […]