Dr How Wee Ng

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Lecturer

Humanities

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309 Regent Street
London
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W1B 2HW
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About me

I am a Lecturer with the School of Humanities. Prior to joining Westminster, I taught at Hull and SOAS, University of London, where I completed my PhD dissertation, "Worrying about the Audience: The Censorship Discourse on Television Drama in Postsocialist China." My monograph, "Drama Box and the Social Theatre of Singapore: Cultural Intervention and Artistic Autonomy" is currently being translated into English. Before coming to the UK, I was involved in theatre and worked as a part-time radio producer-presenter.

Teaching

My main teaching duties in Westminster include undergraduate modules on Chinese language and cinema, and translation at postgraduate level. As a professionally certified educator, I believe that Socratic questioning is an effective pedagogical approach for empowering students to challenge their assumptions and developing their critical thinking skills.

Research Supervision

I welcome inquiries about postgraduate supervision in the fields of film, media and theatre censorship, Sinophone and intercultural theatre, contemporary Chinese studies, gender and sexuality and Singapore Studies. 

I'm currently supervising:

Tianwen, Shen, PhD thesis, 'Bisexuality in China,' 2023-2027.

Ge, Zhu, PhD thesis (practice-based), 'Photography Taken by Chinese People in Beijing Since 1976,' 2022-2026.

Fei Huang, PhD thesis, 'Stay-at-Home Fathers in Contemporary China', 2019-2023 (completed).

Research

My research interests range from Sinophone film, media, theatre, visual culture to literature. A key aspect of my research examines the representations of audiences, censorship in Sinophone cinema and theatre, and in particular, the exclusionary politics of representation in relation to ethnicity, nationality, gender and sexuality. I am also interested in issues of cultural intervention, artistic autonomy, and the mediation of death and dying in theatre.

Publications

For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.