{"id":13153,"date":"2026-01-27T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/elts\/?page_id=13153"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:00:21","slug":"james-simeon-tiu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/elts\/james-simeon-tiu\/","title":{"rendered":"James Simeon TIU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>\n\t\tJames Simeon TIU\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/elts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/student-profile-pic-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>I earned a BA in English Literature from Ateneo de Manila in the Philippines and am a current PhD student in English Literature at NUS, under the supervision of Dr. Tania Roy. My research primarily focuses on Philippine and Southeast Asian literature and is geared towards postcolonial, historical materialist, and biopolitical\/necropolitical schools of thought. Currently, I am working on a dissertation centered around depictions of postcolonial subjectivity within the body politic of the nation-state and communal death and lifemaking in Philippine and Southeast Asian novels and films. I also have secondary interests in religious studies (particularly in looking at theologies of liberation within popular Catholicism in the Philippines as well as drawing on diasporist Jewish narratives to refine ideas of exile and belonging within colonial modernity), as well as queer\/trans studies and transfeminism.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\t<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Research Interests\/<br \/>\nPrimary Fields<\/td>\n<td>Critical theory (postcolonialism\/Marxism), racial capitalism, biopolitics and necropolitics, Philippine and Southeast Asian literature, the novel, nationalism and the nation, history, temporality and eschatology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dissertation Topic\/Title<\/td>\n<td width=\"419\">Life and Death in the Shadow of Empire: Tracing Biopolitical and Necropolitical Narratives in Philippine and Southeast Asian Narratives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dissertation Advisor<\/td>\n<td>Dr. Tania Roy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Modules Taught<\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li>GEC1017\/GEH1053: Film Art and Human Concerns<\/li>\n<li>EN1101E: An Introduction to Literary Studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Other Experience and Information<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;\n<p>Awards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Program Awardee 2024, AB Lit (Eng), Ateneo de Manila<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Experiences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Former Research Assistant under Dr. Isidora Miranda, Vanderbilt University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Languages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>English, Tagalog, Spanish<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ell\/graduate-students\/\">&lt; Back<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Simeon TIU I earned a BA in English Literature from Ateneo de Manila in the Philippines and am a current PhD student in English Literature at NUS, under the supervision of Dr. Tania Roy. My research primarily focuses on Philippine and Southeast Asian literature and is geared towards postcolonial, historical materialist, and biopolitical\/necropolitical schools of thought. Currently, I am working on a dissertation centered around depictions of postcolonial subjectivity within the body politic of the nation-state and communal death and lifemaking in Philippine and Southeast Asian novels and films. I also have secondary interests in religious studies (particularly in looking at theologies of liberation within popular Catholicism in the Philippines as well as drawing on diasporist Jewish narratives to refine ideas of exile and belonging within colonial modernity), as well as queer\/trans studies and transfeminism. Research Interests\/ Primary Fields Critical theory (postcolonialism\/Marxism), racial capitalism, biopolitics and necropolitics, Philippine and Southeast Asian literature, the novel, nationalism and the nation, history, temporality and eschatology Dissertation Topic\/Title Life and Death in the Shadow of Empire: Tracing Biopolitical and Necropolitical Narratives in Philippine and Southeast Asian Narratives Dissertation Advisor Dr. Tania Roy Modules Taught GEC1017\/GEH1053: Film Art and Human Concerns EN1101E: An Introduction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"unboxed","site-sidebar-style":"unboxed","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13153","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>James Simeon TIU - Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/elts\/james-simeon-tiu\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"James Simeon TIU - Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"James Simeon TIU I earned a BA in English Literature from Ateneo de Manila in the Philippines and am a current PhD student in English Literature at NUS, under the supervision of Dr. Tania Roy. 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