Curriculum Vitae

DR. KOK SU MEI

Senior Lecturer
  • Department of English
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • OTHERS LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE
    Renaissance literature, Early modern London, Drama, Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, Cultural geography, Early modern history, Shakespearean adaptations, Asian Shakespeare

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

  • PhD, (Shakespeare & Renaissan Literature)
    Universiti Malaya (UM)
  • MSt (English Language and Literature), (English Language and Literature)
    Oxford University, Oxford, UK
  • MA (English Literature), (Kesusasteraan Bahasa Inggeris)
    Universiti Malaya (UM)
  • BA (Hons)(English), (Bahasa Inggeris)
    Universiti Malaya (UM)

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

  • Programme Coordinator
    01 Jul 2021 - 28 Feb 2025 (Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)
  • Deputy Head
    20 Feb 2023 - 31 Dec 2023 (Department)
  • Committee, Cheeseman Essay Competition
    05 Feb 2018 - 04 Feb 2023 (University Malaya)
  • Committee Members
    05 Feb 2018 - 04 Feb 2023 (University Malaya)
  • AJK Commitee for Research and Publications, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
    01 Oct 2020 - 30 Sep 2022 (Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)
  • Programme Coordinator
    06 Dec 2021 - 26 Jun 2022 (Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)
  • Committee Members
    30 Sep 2020 - 26 Jun 2022 (Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)
  • Department Representative to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Timetable and Workload Committee
    01 Jun 2015 - 30 Jun 2021 (Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)
  • Selection Committee for MA (English Lit)
    01 Jan 2018 - 01 Jan 2019 (Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)

MEMBERSHIPS

  • ASIAN SHAKESPEARE ASSOCITAION, MEMBER
    2013 to 2024 (International)
  • INTERNATIONAL SHAKESPEARE ASSOCIATION, MEMBER
    2016 to 2022 (International)

AWARD AND STEWARDSHIP

  • CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENT SERVICE
    University of Malaya, 2021 (University)
  • Sijil Staf Cemerlang FSSS (2018)
    Fakulti Sastera dan Sains Sosial, UM, 2019 (Ptj/ Faculty)
  • CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENT SERVICE
    University of Malaya, 2006 (University)
  • CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENT SERVICE
    University of Malaya, 2005 (University)

PUBLICATIONS

Article in Journal
WoS
  1. Kok, Su Mei (2024). Fame, Civic Pageantry, and the Standard in Cheapside, NOTES AND QUERIES. . doi:10.1093/notesj/gjae018
  2. Kok, Su Mei (2022). Commensality, Sociability, and The Roaring Girl, STUDIES IN PHILOLOGY. 119(2), 347-369
  3. Mei, K. S. (2020). THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BAYNARD'S CASTLE IN LONDON'S LORD MAYOR'S SHOWS. Notes and Queries, 67(2), 198-200. doi: 10.1093/notesj/gjaa013
ESCI
  1. Kok, Su Mei (2022). Yalpanam: A Novel, SARE-SOUTHEAST ASIAN REVIEW OF ENGLISH. 59(1), 213-215
Others
  1. Su Mei, K. (2020). The Significance of Baynard's Castle in London's Lord Mayor's Shows. Notes and Queries. 67 (2), 198-200.
  2. Kok, S. M. (2019). Bernice Chauly, Incantations/Incarcerations. SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English, 56(2), 175-177.
  3. Kok, Su Mei. "Malaysian Moors: Ethnicity, Speech, and Identity in 'Jarum Halus' (2008)." Shakespaere Bulletin 36.2 (2018): 225-50.
  4. Kok, Su Mei. 'What s Past is Prologue': Postcolonialism, Globalisation, and the Demystification of Shakespeare in Malaysia." SARE 54.1 (2017): 36-52.
  5. Kok, Su Mei. (2016). "Thomas Middleton's Entertainments for William Cockayne (1619-20)" Notes and Queries (forthcoming)
  6. Kok, Su Mei. "Middleton's 'No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's' at Whitehall." Notes and Queries 61(2): 274- 75.
  7. Su Mei Kok. "'How many arts from such a labour flow': Thomas Middleton and London's New River." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 43(1): 173-90.
  8. Su Mei Kok. "Contexts for Thomas Middleton's 'Michaelmas Term' (1604)" Notes and Queries 59.1 (2012): 89-91.
Chapter in Books
  1. Racial Stereotyping in The Merchant of Venice. Critical Voices from Malaysia: Perspectives on English Literature. Eds. Agnes Yeow, et. al. Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 2006.
Other Publications
  1. Kok, Su Mei. "The Relevance of Shakespeare Studies Today." BFM: The Business Radio Station, 18 July 2016. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
  2. Su Mei Kok, 2015. 'Macbeth', Damansara Performing Arts Centre. Shakespeare Bulletin 33.4:683-86. - Review
  3. Su Mei Kok. "Shakespeare Demystified: The Merchant of Venice (review)" Theatre Journal 65(1):123-25. - Review

RESEARCH PROJECT

National
  1. 2018 - 2021, RU Geran - Fakulti Program
    Shakespeare, New Media And Political Reform In Malaysia, 2004-2018 ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  2. 2016 - 2017, Bantuan Kecil Penyelidikan (BKP)
    Malaysian Shakespeare and Cultural Identities in the Nation ( Principal Investigator(PI))
International
  1. 2019 - 2021, International Funding
    Butoh Shakespeare In Southeast Asia ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  2. 2018 - 2021, International Funding
    Butoh Shakespeare in Southeast Asia ( Principal Investigator(PI))

CONSULTANCY PROJECT

  • Industry Advisory Panel, Methodist College, KL
    01 Dec 2018 - 01 Dec 2020 (National)
  • Consultant for Development of Diploma Programme, Methodist College Kuala Lumpur
    01 Dec 2016 - 01 Dec 2018 (National)

PAPER PRESENTED

PLENARY SPEAKER
  1. New Directions of Asian Shakespeare, Asian Shakespeare Association 5th International Biennial Conference , Asian Shakespeare Association  (International) (10 Nov 2022 - 12 Nov 2022)
INVITED SPEAKER
  1. Shakespeare as World Literature, World Literature (LITB 113), Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) (National) (21 Sep 2021 - 21 Sep 2021)
  2. Shakespeare as Global Phenomenon, World Literature (LITB113), Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) (National) (13 Jul 2021 - 13 Jul 2021)
ORAL PRESENTER
  1. 'This might be the pate of a politician': Anwar Ibrahim and the perils of quoting Shakespeare on social media, Malaysia-Brunei Forum 2023, Universiti Malaya & Universiti Brunei Darussalam (International) (13 Dec 2023 - 14 Dec 2023)
  2. Shakespeare, Butoh, and Malaysia, International Conference (Hybrid) Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of MAJAS, 30th Anniversary of JSPUM And 50th Anniversary of Japan-ASEAN, Malaysia Association of Japanese Studies (International) (03 Nov 2023 - 04 Nov 2023)
  3. Shakespeare in Malaysia's 2018 General Election, 11th World Shakespeare Congress, International Shakespeare Association (International) (18 Jul 2021 - 24 Jul 2021)
PRESENTER
  1. Butoh and the Bard: Butoh Shakespeare under the Wings of Southeast Asian Directors, Asian Shakespeare Association 4th Biennial Conference , Asian Shakespeare Association (International) (05 Nov 2020 - 07 Nov 2020)
  2. Pedestrian Playwright: Thomas Middleton and the Standard (London, 1621), KL-Shanghai International Conference 2019, Universiti Malaya & Shanghai Normal University (International) (25 Jul 2019 - 26 Jul 2019)
  3. 'Jarum Halus' (2008) and Shakespeare as Malaysian Heritage, Malaysia-Singapore Forum , Universiti Malaya with National University of Singapore (International) (20 Sep 2018 - 21 Sep 2018)
  4. Shakespeare in Malaya and Postcolonial Malaysia, Creative Cultures of Anglophone Southeast and East Asia: Mapping Literary Networks , Open University, UK and Universiti Malaya (International) (05 Dec 2017 - 05 Dec 2017)
  5. Jarum Halus (2008) and the Malaysian Moor, Asian Shakespeare Association 2nd Biennial Conference, Asian Shakespeare Association (International) (01 Dec 2016 - 03 Dec 2016)
  6. Thomas Middleton: Ecumenist?, Journeys of/toward Identity, Department of English, University of Malaya (University) (08 Oct 2015 - 08 Oct 2015)
  7. Dumbing down, Wisening up: "Shakespeare Demystified" and the Kuala Lumpur Shakespeare Players, Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA) 12th Biennial International Conference, Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA)  (International) (02 Oct 2014 - 02 Oct 2014)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
  1. Teaching Poetry and Drama in the Digital Classroom, A Pedagogical Shift from Text to Hypertext: Language and Literature to Digital Natives, Sri S. Ramasamy Naidu Memorial College (India) and Unviersiti Malaya (International) (13 Sep 2021 - 17 Sep 2021)

ACADEMIC/PROF. SERVICES

Evaluation
  1. (2021) Reviewing Article, International, (Reviewer)
  2. (2019) Reviewer for 'Sarjana', (Reviewer)
  3. (2018) Reviewer for 'Sarjana' , (Reviewer)
  4. (2018) Book review editor for 'Sarjana' , (Editor)
  5. (2017) Member of international editorial board for SARE (Southeast Asian Review of English) which is SCOPUS indexed , (Editor)
  6. (2015) Reviewer for Malaysian Journal of Performing and Visual Arts , (Reviewer)
Contribution to external organisation
  1. (2022) Editor for Digital Database, International, (Expert Advisor)
  2. (2015) Joint teaching with Prof. Sheila Cavanagh (Emory Univ, USA), World Shakespeare Project, International

SUPERVISION

Postgraduate Student
PhD/ Doctoral
  1. (2023) Intercultural Shakespeare in Bangladesh, DIANA ANSAREY
Master
  1. (2023) Archipelagic Connections and Interculturalism In Norzizi Zulkifli's Mak Yong Titis Sakti and Ricardo Abad's Sintang Dalisay, MOHAMAD HAZIQ BIN MOHAMAD AZMI
  2. (2023) The Portrayal of the Female Voice in 10 Things I Hate About You and Deliver Us From Eva, GEEN NA CHAN
  3. (2023) Female Self-Sacrifice in the Poetry of Emily Pfeiffer and Christina Rossetti, YEO JIA YEE, FAITH
  4. (2023) Nature as Allegory in the children's poetry of John Bunyan, AI LYN CHEW
  5. (2023) Authorship, Authority and the Archaeology of Meaning in Station Eleven., UMMU ALIA IZZATI BINTI HUZAIDI
  6. (2022) THOMAS MIDDLETON'S PORTRAYAL OF DAUGHTERS IN A MAD WORLD MY MASTERS AND A CHASTE MAID IN CHEAPSIDE, ABIRAMI A/P SASHIDHARAN
  7. (2022) REPRESENTATIONS OF THE SUBALTERN IN TASH AW’S WE, THE SURVIVORS, KALEELUL RAHUMAN FATHIMA SEEFA
  8. (2020) A BUSHEL OF PEARLS": MATERIALIZING FEMALE AGENCY IN DIANA PRIMROSE'S A CHAIN OF PEARL (1630) AND LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON’S THE IMPROVISATRICE AN OTHER POEMS (1825), ALYNNA JULIET GREGORY
Under Graduate Students
  1. (2022) Portrayals of Beatrice s Independence in Shakespeare s Much Ado about Nothing
  2. (2022) Marriage and women in 'Much Ado about Nothing' and 'A Midsummer Night s Dream'
  3. (2022) Adaptation of traditional elements of the medieval morality play in 'Dr. Faustus' and 'Macbeth'

TEACHING

Master
  1. (2023) AOA7019 - Global Shakespeares
  2. (2022) AOA7019 - Global Shakespeares
  3. (2021) AOA7019 - Global Shakespeares
  4. (2016) ACGB6307 - Renaissance Drama
  5. (2015) ACGB6307 - Renaissance Drama
  6. (2014) ACGB6307 - Renaissance Drama
Bachelor
  1. (2023) AIC2014 - Global Shakespeares
  2. (2023) AIC3012 - Literature of The Restoration and The Eighteenth Century
  3. (2023) AIC2003 - Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
  4. (2023) AIC1007 - Writing About Literature I
  5. (2023) AIC1008 - Writing About Literature Ii
  6. (2022) PIB2006 - Critical Thinking and Literature
  7. (2022) AIC2014 - Global Shakespeares
  8. (2022) AIC1006 - Research Methodology
  9. (2022) AIC1008 - Writing About Literature Ii
  10. (2021) PIB2006 - Critical Thinking and Literature
  11. (2021) AIC2014 - Global Shakespeares
  12. (2021) PIB3008 - Literature in The School Syllabus
  13. (2021) AIC1006 - Research Methodology
  14. (2021) AIX2001 - Research Methodology for Social Science and Humanities
  15. (2021) AIC3002 - Research Project 1
  16. (2021) AIC3004 - Research Project 2
  17. (2021) AIC2003 - Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
  18. (2021) AIC1006 - Research Methodology
  19. (2021) AIC2003 - Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
  20. (2021) AIC2014 - Global Shakespeares, National University of Singapore 
  21. (2020) AIC2014 - Global Shakespeares
  22. (2020) AIC3004 - Research Project 2
  23. (2020) AIX2001 - Research Methodology for Social Science and Humanities
  24. (2020) PIB3004 - Readings in British and American Literature
  25. (2020) PIB3008 - Literature in The School Syllabus
  26. (2017) AIC1001 - Reading and Writing About Literature I
  27. (2017) AIC2003 - Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
  28. (2017) AIX1003 - Reading and Understanding Literature
  29. (2017) AIX2001 - Research Methodology for Social Science and Humanities
  30. (2016) ACEA3113 - Critical Thinking and Writing
  31. (2016) ACEA3309 - Renaissance Literature
  32. (2016) AIC2003 - Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
  33. (2016) AIX2001 - Research Methodology
  34. (2016) PXET1107 - Writing About Literature
  35. (2016) PXET3110 - Texts for Schools
  36. (2015) ACEA2101 - 19th Century English Literature I
  37. (2015) ACEA3101 - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
  38. (2015) PXET1107 - Writing About Literature
  39. (2015) PXET3105 - Drama I V.1
  40. (2015) PXET3105 - Drama I V.1
  41. (2014) PXET3106 - Shakespeare On Screen V.1
  42. (2014) PXET3110 - Text for Schools
  43. (2013) ACEA3101 - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
  44. (2013) PXET1107 - Writing About Literature
  45. (2013) PXET3106 - Shakespeare On Screen V.1

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ACTIVITIES

  • Judge, Oxford-Fajar Big Write Competition, (01 May 2018 - 31 May 2018)
  • Judge, Oxford-Fajar Big Write Competition, (01 May 2017 - 31 May 2017)
  • "Writing for Publication" Workshop At Postgraduate Research Methodology for Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UM, (19 Aug 2016 - 19 Aug 2016)
  • Presenter, "Writing for Publication" Workshop in "Bengkel Penyelidikan Fakulti Sastera dan Sains Sosial", (07 Jan 2016 - 07 Jan 2016)
  • Chairperson, Organising Committee. "Shakespeare Refreshed Festival 2016" At Publika Shopping Gallery, Mon'T Kiara., (01 Jan 2016 - 30 Jul 2016)
  • Shakespeare Workshop At Methodist College Kuala Lumpur, (24 Nov 2015 - 24 Nov 2015)

COURSE ATTENDED

Internal / External Course
COURSES ORGANIZED BY PTJ
  1. SUPERVISION BASIC COURSE FOR NEW LECTURERS 2/2016, Seminar Room 1 & 2, Akademi Pengajian Islam (22 Nov 2016 - 23 Nov 2016)
  2. POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION WORKSHOP, Cube Ips (09 Jun 2015 - 09 Jun 2015)
  3. UNDERSTANDING YOUR 21ST CENTURY LEARNERS, Cube, Fakulti Pendidikan (17 Aug 2017 - 17 Aug 2017)