Faculty

Michelle Chiang is an Assistant Professor of English and the coordinator of the Medical Humanities Research Cluster at Nanyang Technological University. Her selected publications include Samuel Beckett’s Intuitive Spectator: Me to play (Palgrave, 2018) and “Human Relationality in End-of-life Memoirs” (The Lancet, in press). Beckett led her to explore embodied lives in absolute systems that persistently fail to account for lived experiences. Literature, philosophy and medicine converge in her interdisciplinary research focus on narratives of loss: the loss of physical control, the witnessing of loss, and the experience of dying. She is currently the Principal Investigator of a Ministry of Education (Singapore) funded research project Medical Humanities Approach to the Value of Patient Stories and Narrative Ethics.