Yiru Lim

Dr Lim Yiru

Assistant Dean

Core Learning

Tel: +65 6248 4441​

Email: 4oCL4oCLeXJsaW1Ac3Vzcy5lZHUuc2c=

Educational Qualifications

  • 2010 - 2015

    Doctor of Philosophy in English, Nanyang Technological University

  • 2004 - 2005

    Bachelor of Arts in English 1st Class Hon., National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University

  • 2000 - 2004

    Bachelor of Arts with Diploma in Education (English Literature & Language), National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University

Academic and Professional Experience

  • 2022 - Present

    Assistant Dean, Core Learning, College of Interdisciplinary and Experiential Learning, Singapore University of Social Sciences

  • 2021 - 2022

    Deputy Director, Centre for University Core, Singapore University of Social Sciences

  • 2020 - Present

    Senior Lecturer, Centre for University Core, Singapore University of Social Sciences

  • 2015 - 2020

    Lecturer (SUSS Core), Centre for University Core, Singapore University of Social Sciences

  • 2013

    Academic Visitor (Research), Wolfson College, University of Oxford

  • 2012 - 2015

    Part-time Lecturer, Division of English, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University

  • 2011 - 2015

    Teaching Assistant, Division of English, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University

  • 2005 - 2010

    Education Officer, Ministry of Education, Singapore

Lim, Yiru and Kit Ying Lye, editors. Reading Violence and Trauma in Asia and the World. Routledge, forthcoming.

Lim, Yiru. “Fictive Realities: Witnessing and the Imagination in The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida”. Reading Violence and Trauma in Asia and the World. Yiru Lim and Kit Ying Lye, editors. Routledge, forthcoming.

Lim, Tai Wei, Naoko Shimazaki, Yoshihisa Godo, and Yiru Lim. Coal Mining Communities and Gentrification in Japan. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Lim, Yiru. “Reviving the House of Fiction: John Banville’s Birchwood.” Review of Irish Studies in Europe 3, no. 1 (2019): 54-72. https://doi.org/10.32803/rise.v3i1.2215.

Lim, Yiru. “Who is Charlie Chan Hock Chye? Verisimilitude and (The Act of) Reading.” Comics Forum, 26 September, 2017. https://comicsforum.org/2017/09/26/who-is-charlie-chan-hock-chye/.

Lim, Yiru. “15’-3’-15’: Underwater Hockey in 3 Movements.” (Con)figuring Sport. Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, 12, no. 1 (2012): 109-113.

Lim, Yiru. “The Negotiation for Space: The Arts and Culture in Singapore.” Situations Vol. 1 (Fall 2010): 61-72.

  • 2024

    8th Asian Underwater Hockey Cup, Women’s Elite – Silver

  • 2020

    Finalist for 2020 Singapore Sports Awards – Team of the Year (Event), Underwater Hockey, 30th Southeast Asian Games

  • 2019

    30th Southeast Asian Games, Underwater Hockey Women’s Elite 6x6 – Gold

  • 2019

    30th Southeast Asian Games, Underwater Hockey Women’s Elite 4x4 – Gold

  • 2017

    7th Asian Underwater Hockey Championship, Women’s Elite – Silver

  • 2016

    19th CMAS World Underwater Hockey Championships, Women’s Elite – Asia ranking 1, World ranking 11

  • 2015

    6th Asian Underwater Hockey Championship, Women’s Elite – Silver

  • 2013

    5th Asian Underwater Hockey Championship, Women’s Elite – Gold

  • 2011

    4th Asian Underwater Hockey Championship, Women’s Elite – Gold

  • 2010 - 2014

    Nanyang President’s Graduate Scholarship

  • 2005

    Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal

  • 2004

    British Council Gold Medal

  • 2004

    Valedictorian

  • Modern Language Association (MLA)
  • Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
  • American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
  • Narrative and Representation
  • Narrative and the Literary Imagination
  • Narrative and Trauma/Violence
  • Narrative and Vulnerable Populations
  • Ekphrasis

Lim, Yiru. Lecture on Empathy, Art and Society (invited speaker). Sookmyung Institute of Humanities, Sookmyung Women's University, South Korea, 13 Dec 2024.

Lim, Yiru. “Lonely Narratives – Stories of Living and Dying Alone.” "Loneliness" 6th International Interdisciplinary Conference, 26-27 Sep 2024.

Lim, Yiru. “The Image and the Performance of the Witness.” Association for Asian Studies, 8th AAS-in-Asia Conference, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, 24-27 Jun 2023.

Lim, Yiru. “How to Pronounce Rupture: Souvankham Thammavongsa’s Imaginings of Self.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting 16-18 Jun 2022.

Seminar organiser, panel chair, presenter.

Lim, Yiru. "It's a Layered Thing: Embodied History in Public Spaces." Oral History Association 2021 Annual Meeting, 9-14 Oct 2021.

Lim, Yiru. “Others is Not a Race: Cultural Reclamation and Erasure.” The 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands, 15-19 Jul 2019.
Panel convenor, panel chair, presenter.

Lim, Yiru. “Ninth International Conference on The Image,” Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, SAR, 3-4 Nov 2018.

Lim, Yiru. “The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye: A Portrait of the Invisible Artist.” The Eighth Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities (ACAH2017), Kobe, Japan, 30 Mar – 2 Apr 2017.

Lim, Yiru. “Straddling the Divide: Virginia Woolf and John Banville.” Borders of Modernism, International Conference, Centre for European Modernism Studies (CEMS), University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy, 14-16 Dec 2016.

Lim, Yiru. “The Garden City: Planting a Tree, Growing a Nation.” ‘Spontaneous Beauties’? World Gardens and Gardens in the World, An International Conference, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 10-12 Jun 2016.

Lim, Yiru. “Lost in Transit: Considering Representation in the Contemporary.” CAMPUS ASIAEAUI, Winter School 2012. East Asian University Institute, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 27 Feb -1 Mar 2012.

Lim, Yiru. “Telling the Story about Storytelling: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea.” The Contemporary: An International Conference of Literature and the Arts, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 24-26 Jun 2011.

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