Books/Book Chapters/Journals:
Lye, K.Y. and Terence Heng, editors. Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City. Routledge, 2024.
Lye, K.Y. “Saving the Woman: Female rituals in Chinese Funerals.” Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City. Edited by Kit Ying Lye, Terence Heng, Routledge, 2024.
Lye, K.Y., Terence Heng, and Janice Kam. “Mapping Regional Variations in Contemporary Singaporean Chinese Funerals.” Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City. Edited by Kit Ying Lye, Terence Heng, Routledge, 2024.
Lye, K.Y. “Where Do the Disappeared Go? Writing the Genocide in East Timor.” The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature. Edited by Daniel K Jernigan, Neil Murphy and W. Michelle Wang. Routledge, 2020.
Lye, K.Y. “Can One Speak of the 30 September Movement? The Power of Silence in Indonesian Literature.” Asia and the Historical Imagination. Edited by Jane Yeang Chui Wong. Palgrave MacMillan, 2018..
Lye, K.Y. “Merlinda Bobis’ Fish-Hair Woman: A Magical Rendering of History.” Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints. vol. 65 no. 2 (2017): 201–25.
Reviews:
Lye, K.Y. Review of Southeast Asia: A Very Short Introduction. James R. Rush. Oxford University Press, 2018. In Singapore Review of Books. 12 December 2018. https://singaporereviewofbooks.org/2018/12/12/southeast-asia-a-very-short-introduction/
Lye, K.Y. Review of Destination Cambodia: Adventures in the Kingdom. Walter Mason. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 2013. http://singaporereviewofbooks.org/2014/09/18/destinationcambodia/
Conference Presentations:
Lye, K.Y. “Indonesia is Mine Too: Reading Indonesian Women’s Experiences.” Association for Asian Studies 2023 Annual Conference. 24-27 June 2023.
Lye, K.Y. “A Preference for Silence: Reading the Other’s Despair in Charmaine Craig’s Miss Burma.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting 16-18 June 2022.
Lye, K.Y. “I don’t want to become a Hungry Ghost.” Association for Asian Studies 2022 Annual Conference 24 -27 March 2022.
Lye, K.Y. “Performing History: Stories and Rituals in Chinese Death Practices.” 2021 Oral History Association Annual Meeting 9 -14 October 2021.
Lye, K.Y. “A Singaporean Chinese Funeral in English?” 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars 24 - 27 August 2021.
Lye, K.Y. “Female Rituals in Chinese Funerals.” Presentation at Ritual and Remembrance: Two webinars on funerals, artefacts and death beliefs amongst Chinese Singaporeans held on 30-31 March 2021 (funded by NHB HRG).
Lye, K.Y. ““I Gave Birth to Four Children, and I died.” The Women in Eka Kurnianwan’s Indonesia” 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars. Leiden 16 - 19 July 2019.
Lye, K.Y. “Why We Still Speak Our Dialects: A Study of Polyculturalism in Singapore.” Humber College’s School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, IFOA 2018. Losing our Words: Transformations in Language and Culture, 27-28 October 2018.
Lye, K.Y. “Of Beauty, Tigers, and Sleeping Birds: Eka Kurniawan’s Outrageous Realism.” National Taipei University of Technology, Literary Fantasy and Its Discontents, 22-24 November 2018.
Lye, K.Y. “Mother’s Beloved and a Secret War.” Chiang Mai, Thailand, 10th International Convention of Asia Scholars, 20-23 July 2017.
Lye, K.Y. “A Daughter’s Duty.” Nanyang Technological University, Movement(s) and Mobility Symposium, 2-3 June 2017.
Lye, K.Y. “The Dilemma of the Peranakan Woman.” Confucius Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Peranakan Community in Malacca and Singapore, 14 January 2017.
Lye, K.Y. “Writing the Artistic Testimony: Magical Realism or Pralamlok in Cambodian Literature.” Humber College’s School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, IFOA 2016: Truth, Lies and Manufacturing Memories, 28-29 October 2016.
Lye, K.Y. “Can One Speak of the September 30th Movement? A Study of Contemporary Indonesian Political Fiction.” Nanyang Technological University, Asia and the Historical Imagination, 30 July-1 August 2015.
Lye, K.Y. “Where Do the Disappeared Go? The Power of Silence in Seno Gumira Ajidarma’s “The Incident.”” 35th Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference, Popular Culture: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, 19-22 February 2014.
Lye, K.Y. “Artistic Shock Chronotopes in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.” Nanyang Technological University, Transcultural Imaginaries. Making New, Making Strange, 14-17 June 2013.