Dr Lim Yiru

Core Learning

Tel: +65 6248 4441

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

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.

Dr Lim Yiru

Assistant Dean

Educational Qualifications

Academic and Professional Experience