Teaching

• Introduction to English Literature
• Literary Appreciation and Criticism
• Contemporary Criticial Theory
• Postcolonial Literature
• American Literature
• Popular Fiction
• Film and Literature
• Twentieth Century Literature
• Literature of America's Minorities

Research Interests

• Asian Diaspora Cultures
• Transnational Migration
• Psychoanalytical Theory
• Memory Studies & Trauma Theory
• Relationship between Literature and Medicine
• Life Writing: Autobiography
• Gendered Identities and Subjectivities
• The Subject’s Mind-Body Connection
• Asian American Literature
• African American Literature
• The Contemporary Novel

Research Grants

Faculty Research Cluster (Block Funding) Grant

Title: 'Representations of Mental Health in Literature and the Media in Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia’
Role: Principal Investigator
Project Period: 01/02/2022 – 31/01/2024
Funding Amount: BND $9230

Title: 'Parental Motivations for Sending Non-Chinese Children to Chinese Schools in Brunei Darussalam’
Role: Principal Investigator
Project Period: 15/10/2021 – 14/10/2023
Funding Amount: BND $7550

Title: 'Contested Identity: Representations and Language Use of the Chinese Diaspora in Brunei Darussalam'
Role: Principal Investigator
Project Period: 01/02/2019 – 31/05/2024
Funding Amount: BND $9550

UBD Research Seed Grant

Title: ‘Cartographies of Identity in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures’
Role: Principal Investigator
Project Period: 01/01/2014 – 31/12/2014
Funding Amount: BND $10,000

Other Grants

Institution: Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS)
Title: ‘Living with COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Crisis, Community and Control’.
Role: National Team Leader, Brunei Darussalam
Project Period: 01/2021 – 03/2022
Funding Amount: SGD $2700

Institution: International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Title: 'Parenting Amongst Asians' Regional Workshop
Project Period: 26/06/2019 – 28/06/2019.
Grant: Full Award

Publications

Journal Articles

Ho, H. M. Y. (2025). Contested homes in speculative futurities in Anglophone Bruneian fiction. Science Fiction Studies, 52(1), 95-114.

Ho, H. M. Y. (2024). Budaya pendidikan di Brunei Darussalam: Penyertaan cosmopolitan melalui bahasa. Rampak Serantau 29, 384-404.

Ho, H. M. Y. (2024). Desis’ identity crisis in America: Examining cultural and racial politics in Samira Ahmed’s Love, Hate and Other Filters (2018) and Sanjena Sathian’s Gold Diggers (2021). South Asian Diaspora, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/19438192.2024.2363684

Ho, H. M. Y. (2024). Southeast Asia. The Year’s Work in English Studies. Oxford University Press.

Ho, H. M. Y. (2023). History, memory and duality: Malaysia’s national amnesia in Chuah Guat Eng’s Days of Change. Kritika Kultura, 41, 6-28.

Ho, H. M. Y. (2023). Reframing loss: Chinese diaspora identity in K. H. Lim’s Written in Black. Suvannabhumi, 15(1), 131-152.

Ho, H. M. Y. (2023). Resilient women: Transnational homes and identities in Tahmima Anam’s A Golden Age. South Asian Diaspora, 15(2), 255-270.

Ho, H. M. Y. (2022). Mental health challenges of migrant domestic workers in the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Brunei Darussalam. International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies 18(2), 99–125. https://doi.org/10.21315/ijaps2022.18.2.5 (PDF Link).

Ho, H. M. Y. (2022). Organic solidarity in the national response to COVID-19 in Brunei Darussalam. Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 22(1), 23-49.

Ho, H. M. Y. (2021). Chinese Bruneian identity: Negotiating individual, familial and transnational selves in anglophone Bruneian literature. The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture, 14(2), 1-34. DOI: 10.30395/WSR.202106_14(2).0001 (PDF Link)

Ho, H. M. Y. (2020). The violence of othering and (non-)indigenous revival: Aammton Alias’ The Last Bastion of Ingei: Imminent as postcolonial speculative fiction of Brunei Darussalam. Southeast Asian Review of English, 57(1), 55-79. https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol57no1.6 (PDF Link)

Ullah, A. K. M. A., & Ho, H. M. Y. (2020). Globalisation and cultures in Southeast Asia: Demise, fragmentation, transformation. Global Society, 35(2), 191–206. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2020.1747992 (PDF Link)

Ho, H. M. Y. (2019). Women doing Malayness in Brunei Darussalam. Southeast Asian Review of English, 56(2): 147-165. https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol56no2.14 (PDF Link).

Ho, H. M. Y., & Ho, D. (2019). Identity in flux: The sarong party girl's pursuit of a "good life". Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 13(2), 146-166. (PDF Link).

Ho, H. M. Y. (2019). Personal narratives of illness: Redressing madness in the Singaporean fiction of Amanda Lee Koe. Humanities, 8(2), 70. https://doi.org/10.3390/h8020070 (PDF Link).

Ho, H. M. Y. (2018). Capitalist patriarchy in Singaporean women’s production of work and consumption: Towards a radical discourse. South East Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 18, 55–70. (PDF Version).

Ho, H. M. Y., & Dhont, F. (2016). Bombs as potent reminders of war: A literary-historical study of Negara Brunei Darussalam. South East Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 16, 138–150. (PDF Version).

Ho, H. M. Y. (2015). The language of depathologized melancholia in Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters. South East Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 15, 17-25. (PDF Version).

Books

Ho, H. M. Y., & Chan, Y. K. (Eds.). (2025). Transnational Southeast Asia: Communities, contestations and cultures. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3608-2

Ho, H. M. Y., & Deterding, D. (Eds.). (2021). Engaging modern Brunei: Research on language, literature and culture. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4721-2

Book Chapters

Ho, H. M. Y. (2025). The temporal mundane in Anglophone Chinese diaspora writing from Brunei Darussalam. In K. G. Ooi & Kathrina Mohd Daud (Eds.), Literature in Brunei: History, culture and challenges. Routledge.

Ho, H. M. Y. (2025). Traversing transnationalism: Enrique’s Malayness in historical fiction from Southeast Asia. In H. M. Y. Ho & Y. K. Chan (Eds.), Transnational Southeast Asia: Communities, contestations and cultures (pp. 241-256). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3608-2_15

Ho, H. M. Y., & Chan, Y. K. (2025). Interrogating the transnational paradigm in Southeast Asia: Communities, contestations and cultures. In H. M. Y. Ho & Y. K. Chan (Eds.), Transnational Southeast Asia: Communities, contestations and cultures (pp. 1-13). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3608-2_1

Nahar, S., & Ho, H. M. Y. (2025). Transnational Muslim identity crisis: A comparative analysis of The Accidental Malay and Seasonal Adjustments. In H. M. Y. Ho & Y. K. Chan (Eds.), Transnational Southeast Asia: Communities, contestations and cultures (pp. 193-209). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3608-2_12

Ho, H. M. Y., & Chan, Y. K. (2024). Teaching on the rise: Chinese education in Singapore and Brunei Darussalam. In A. Ranjan, D. Chattoraj, & A. K. M. A. Ullah (Eds.), India and China in Southeast Asia. Routledge.

Ho, H. M. Y. (2024). Narratives of healing and healers: Malay Muslim identity in contemporary Bruneian literature. In A. J. Rasmussen & M. Sodemann (Eds.), Narrative medicine: Trauma and ethics (pp. 237-247). Vernon Press.

Ho, H. M. Y., & Hoon, C. Y. (2024). Chinese language education in Brunei Darussalam: An instrument of China’s soft power. In L. Suryadinata (Ed.), Rising China’s soft power in Southeast Asia (pp. 200-214). Yusof-Ishak Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Press.

Ho, H. M. Y. (2023). Rethinking ‘amok’: Indigenous identity affirmation in Malay legends of Southeast Asia. In I. Pelea (Ed.), Culture-bound syndromes in popular culture. Routledge.

Ho, H. M. Y. (2022). Beyond intractability: Muslim women negotiating identities in Brunei Darussalam. In F. Jussawalla & D. Omran (Eds.), Muslim women's writing from across South and Southeast Asia. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003248064

Deterding, D., & Ho, H. M. Y. (2021). An overview of the language, literature and culture of Brunei Darussalam. In H. M. Y. Ho & D. Deterding (Eds.), Engaging modern Brunei: Research on language, literature and culture (pp. 1-17). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4721-2_1

Ho, H. M. Y. (2021). Localisation of Malay Muslim identity in Brunei Darussalam: A modern nation’s cultural and economic goals. In H. M. Y. Ho & D. Deterding (Eds.), Engaging modern Brunei: Research on language, literature and culture (pp. 127-143). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4721-2_8

Ho, H. M. Y., & Rinni Haji Amran. (2021). Constructs of the modern home: Negotiating identity in anglophone Bruneian literature. In H. M. Y. Ho & D. Deterding (Eds.), Engaging modern Brunei: Research on language, literature and culture (pp. 163-175). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4721-2_10

Ho, D. G. E., & Ho, H. M. Y. (2021). Ethnic identity and the Southeast Asian Chinese: Voices from Brunei. In C. Y. Hoon & Y. K. Chan (Eds.), Contesting Chineseness: Ethnicity, identity, and nation in China and Southeast Asia (pp. 149-166). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6096-9_8

Ho, H. M. Y. (2020). Unclean subject(s) of depression within the Singaporean state. In J. R. Velasco (Ed.), The faces of depression in literature (pp. 143-160). Peter Lang. (Link)

Ho, H. M. Y. (2019). Negotiating a personal experience: Identity affirmation of the horimono artist. In S. T. Kloss (Ed.), Tattoo histories: Transcultural perspectives on the narratives, practices, and representations of tattooing. Routledge. (Link)

Ho, H. M. Y. (2013). Depathologising race. In S. Andermahr & S. Pellicer-Ortin (Eds.), Trauma narratives and herstories. Palgrave Macmillan. (Link)

Digital Essays / Public Scholarship

Ho, H. M. Y. (2024). Exploring mental health in English literature: Insights from Brunei Darussalam. Heinrich Boll Stiftung Research Foundation.

Ho, H. M. Y. (2023). Culture, education and literature: How are the Chinese faring in Brunei Darussalam? National University Singapore – Asia Research Institute. (Link)

Hoon, C. Y., & Ho, H. M. Y. (2023). Mandarin learning in Brunei’s Chinese schools: Practical considerations. Fulcrum. Yusof Ishak ISEAS Press. Singapore.

Ho, H. M. Y. (2022). Creating ripples for well-being: Post-pandemic mental health in Brunei Darussalam. Heinrich Boll Foundation. (Link)

Ho, H. M. Y. (2021). COVID-19 in Brunei Darussalam: How does the small nation cope? Heinrich Boll Foundation. (Link)

Ho, H. M. Y. (2021). Living with COVID-19 in Brunei Darussalam: A research update. National University Singapore – Asia Research Institute. (Link)

Ho, H. M. Y. (2020, June). Home is where the heart is: The Bruneian context. In S. Ramasubramanian (Ed.), Quarantined across borders blog series. Media Rise. (Link)

Conferences and Presentations

Ho, Hannah M. Y. (2024). Intra- and Inter-Asian Cultural Connections: Articulating Chinese Identity in Anglophone Bruneian Literature. 13th International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS 13). Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia. 28 July – 2 August 2024.

Ho, Hannah M. Y. (2024). Embodied and Emplaced Mobilities as Cultural Imaginary in Anglophone Bruneian Literature. European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EUROSEAS), University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. 23 – 25 July 2024.

Ho, Hannah M. Y. (2023). Southeast Asian Comparative Literature: Histories, Theories and Practices. Institute of Literature, Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences (VASS). Hanoi, Vietnam. 14 December 2023.

Ho, Hannah M. Y. (2023). Alternative Medicine in Southeast Asian Literary Writings: Cultural Identity and Power. Culture, Health and Illness in Contemporary Asia: Grassroot Articulations and Alternative Imagination, Jinan University, China. 25-27 November 2023.

Ho, Hannah M. Y. (2023). China-ASEAN Language and Cultural Forum. China Education Association for International Exchange. Guiyang, China. 29-30 August 2023.

Ho, Hannah M. Y. (2023). International Conference for Short Stories in English. National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. Singapore. 20-24 June 2023.

Ho, Hannah M. Y. (2023). National Literature Symposium. National Language and Literature Bureau. Berakas, Bandar Seri Begawan. Brunei Darussalam. 1-2 March 2023.

Ho, Hannah M. Y. (2023). Conjuring up History in Fiction: A Study of Enrique in Southeast Literatures. Modern Language Association. San Francisco, United States of America. 5-8 January.

Ho, Hannah M. Y. (2022). Global Citizenship in Southeast Asia. International Symposium. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Universiti Brunei Darussalam. 21- 22 November 2022.

Ho, Hannah M. Y. (2022). Chinese Diaspora Identities: Literary Representations in a Bruneian Children’s Novel. Asian Festival of Children’s Content. Singapore Book Council. Singapore. Online. 26-27 May 2022.

Ho, Hannah M. Y. (2022). Lessons from Bruneian Speculative Fiction: Decoding Power Play in the Bunian Conspiracy. Asian Festival of Children’s Content. Singapore Book Council. Singapore. Online. 28-29 May.

Ho, Hannah (2021). Recovering Tales of Personal and Communal Success of Chinese Bruneian Entrepreneurs. Brunei-Malaysia Forum (BMF). Universiti Brunei Darussalam. ONLINE. 14-15 September 2021.

Ho, Hannah (2021). Reframing Loss: Chinese Identity in Brunei Darussalam in an Era of Supermobility. 12th International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS) Conference. ONLINE. 24-28 August 2021.

Ho, Hannah (2021). Beyond China: Narratives of Subjective Experiences of the Chinese Bruneians. Global Chinese Conference. Jinan University. ONLINE. 21 April 2021.

Ho, Hannah (2020). Chinese Subaltern Women in Anglophone Bruneian Literature. 6th World Conference on Women's Studies (WCWS). ONLINE. 27-28 July 2020.

Ho, Hannah (2020). A Self-Will for Inclusive Spaces: Writing Contested Identity of the Chinese Diaspora in Brunei Darussalam’s Anglophone Literature. 2nd International Conference on Literature. Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. 29-30 July.

Ho, Hannah (2019). "Unclean Subject: Analysing Depression in Singaporean Literature". The American Comparative Literature Association. Georgetown University, Washington, USA. 7th March – 10th March 2019.

Ho, Hannah (2019). Regional workshop. "Parenting Among Asians". International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development. Chinese University of Hong Kong. 25th June – 28th June 2019.

Ho, Hannah (2019). "We are the English-speaking Chinese”: Assessing the Threat Posed by the Shift to the English Language. 20th English in Southeast Asia Conference. Raffles Town Club, Singapore. 6th December – 7th December 2019.

Ho, Hannah (2017). Augmenting the Historian’s Role: Survivor Memory in Tan Twan Eng’s The Garden of Evening Mists. The Asian Conference on Literature. International Academic Forum (IAFOR). Kobe, Japan. 30 April – 2 May 2017.

Ho, Hannah (2017). Representing Painful Memories: Representations of World War Two in Malaysian and Bruneian Fiction. Institute of Asian Studies Seminar Series. 22 February 2017.

Ho, Hannah (2016). Survivor Memory Reconfigured: Revisiting Trauma in Contemporary Malaysian Fiction. Brunei-Malaysia Forum. 16 November – 17 November 2016.

Ho, Hannah (2015). Writing Cross-Cultural Identities in Postmodern Asia. 18th English in Southeast Asia (ESEA) Conference. 16 November – 17 November 2015.

Ho, Hannah (2015). Race, Gender and Postcolonialism in Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters. 2nd International Conference on Linguistics, Literature and Arts. 4 February – 5 February 2015.

Ho, Hannah (2014). Death’s Journey in Fay Ng’s Novels. 11th Interdisciplinary-Net Conference on ‘Death, Dying and Suffering,’ Prague, Czech Republic. 1 November – 3 November 2014.

Ho, Hannah (2013). The ethnic evolution of Susan Choi’s novels. MELUS 27th Annual Conference in Pittsburgh. University of Pennsylvania. United States. 14 March – 17 March 2013.

Ho, Hannah (2012). Transformative identities in Korean American Literature. University King’s College London. London. United Kingdom. 14 November 2012.

Ho, Hannah (2012). Managing Racial Femininities: Bone and Dogeaters. Graduate Student Research Seminar Series. University of York, UK. 14 February 2012.

Ho, Hannah (2011). Transformative Racial Melancholia in Intersubjective Connections, at the conference Beyond Trauma: Narratives of (Im)possibility in Contemporary Literatures in English, University of Zaragoza, Spain, 31 March – 2 April 2011.

Ho, Hannah (2010). Voices of Memory within Mother-Daughter Stories, Gender Research Within and Across Disciplines, CWS (Centre for Women’s Studies), University of York, United Kingdom, 4 March 2010.

Ho, Hannah (2010). The Challenges Posed by Female Gender and Sexuality to the Language of Hierarchy, Asian Women Negotiating Hierarchy Within Family, CWS (Centre for Women’s Studies), University of York, United Kingdom, 29 April 2010.

Ho, Hannah (2010). Transcending Borders: Hybridised Identities of the Asian American Diaspora, at the Graduate Student Conference, University of York, United Kingdom, 26 May 2010.

Ho, Hannah (2010). Depathologising Racial Melancholia: Intergenerational Avenues of Transformation within ‘Herstories’ in Maxine Hong Kingston’s ‘The Woman Warrior’ and Amy Tan’s ‘The Bonesetter’s Daughter’, at the conference Trauma Narratives and Herstories: With a Special Emphasis on the Work of Eva Figes, University of Northampton, United Kingdom, 12-13 November 2010.

Reviewer

• Senior Reviewer. The Asian Conference on Literature (LibAsia2017). International Academic Forum (IAFOR). Kobe, Japan.

Editorial Board

• Associate Editor, Southeast Asian Multidisciplinary Journal, Universiti Brunei Darussalam. 2023 – ongoing.
• Advisory Editorial Board Member for the Ostrava Journal of English Philology, University of Ostrava, in association with the Czech Ministry of Culture, Czech Republic, 2011.

External Positions

• National University of Singapore Fellow (Southeast Asia), Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore. 2024.
• Visiting Researcher Scholar, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley, USA. 4 January – 15 December 2014.
• Visiting Scholar, Department of English, Kings College London, UK. October – November 2012.