Educational Qualifications

2024
Singapore Polytechnic, Specialist Diploma in Applied Drama & Psychology for Community Engagement

2024
New York School of Playback Theatre, 
Certificate in Core Training 
Certificate in Conducting 

2015
PhD (Chinese Diasporas and Cinema), National University of Singapore

2009
Masters of Arts (Literary Studies), National University of Singapore

2005
Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) in Literature in English and English Language, Nanyang Technological University

2004
Bachelor of Arts (Honours in Theatre Studies), National University of Singapore

Academic and Professional Experience

2022 - Present
Lecturer, Core Learning, College of Interdisciplinary & Experiential Learning, Singapore University of Social Sciences
Modules taught:
      • NCO103: Listen and Be Heard – Effective Communication Through Storytelling
Program Lead: Oral Communication
Sub-Committee Member: Research

2019 – 2022
Lecturer, Teaching and Learning Centre, Singapore University of Social Sciences
Module and Courses taught:
     • Academic Writing
     • Academic Writing at the Intermediate Level
     • Trends and Issues in Adult and Lifelong Education (Masters of Adult Learning
Program)
     • Digital Literacies Pedagogies (Professional Development for Faculty joint teaching
with University of Stockholm)
Program Lead: Academic Student Development

2017 – 2019
Teacher (GCSE O Levels English and Literature to ESL students), Singapore Institute of
Management International Academy (SIMIA)

2016 – 2017
Postdoctoral Fellow, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS), Nanyang Technological University
Courses taught:
Asian Cinemas, Global Blockbusters: Contemporary Film and Media
Industries in Globalizing Asia, Film: A Global History; Global Chinese Cinema

2014 – 2015
Teacher (International Baccalaureate Literature), School of the Arts (SOTA)

2011 – 2013
Graduate Research Scholar, Department of English Language and Literature, National
University of Singapore
Courses taught:
     • The Theatre Experience, Performance and Popular Culture Singapore
     • Film: Performance and Identity

2010 – 2011
Teacher (A-Level Project Work), Raffles Institution

2005 – 2008
Teacher (O-Level English Language and Literature), River Valley High School

Awards and Honours

2025
Singapore University of Social Scienes Teaching Excellence Award.

2011
NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Graduate Teaching Award.

Selected Publications

Academic Publications
Book

Circuits of Sound: Postdigital Storytelling and Listening in Mobile Audio Performance in Singapore (Forthcoming 2026, Lexington Books)

Selected journal articles

Vine, T., Chew, Y.W., & Hodgkinson, A. (forthcoming). Editor’s Introduction: Storying the Aftermath. Storyworlds Special Issue.

Chew, Y. W. (2023). 25 Years Later: An Autoethnographic Study of the Teenage Textbook Movie (1998) in 2023. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2023.2282946  

Chew, Y.W. (2022). Performing Presence with the Teaching-Body via Videoconferencing: A Postdigital Study of the Teacher’s Face and Voice. Postdigital Science and Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-022-00288-2  

Chew, Y.W. (2017). Immortalizing Idealism: Re-Cognizing the Nation in Boo Jun Feng’s Sandcastle. Asian Cinema, 28(1). https://doi.org/10.1386/ac.28.1.73_1 

Chew, Y.W. (2015). Projections of Diasporic Sensibilities Through Travel: Wong Kar Wai in/and My Blueberry Nights. Cinema Journal, 54(4). http://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2015.0049 

Chew, Y.W. (2010). An Australian Tale in a Japanese Story: Reading the National in Sue Brook’s Japanese Story. Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies, 1(1).

Non-Academic Publications
Creative Writing and Reviews

Chew, Y. (2025). The Ordinariness of Grief. Singapore Film Society. https://www.singaporefilmsociety.com/film-review-163-close-and-the-ordinariness-of-grief  

Chew, Y. (2018). Indelible City. Marshall Cavendish. February 2018.
 

Media

Chew, Y. (2025). As SUSS gets a new campus, let’s ask: What does success mean in Singapore? The Straits Times.

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