BARBARA RYAN
Associate Professor
University Scholars Programme,
National University of Singapore
usprbt@nus.edu.sg
(65) 6516 4068
Brief Introduction
A/P Barbara Ryan is an Associate Professor in the University Scholars Programme (USP) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She received a PhD in American Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Learn more about A/P Ryan in this 2013 interview with The Cinnamon Roll, an online publication by USP students.
Teaching Modules @ USP
A/P Ryan teaches in the domains of Writing and Critical Thinking, and Humanities and Social Sciences. She offers the following modules:
Research Interests
- North American literature, especially reception thereof, especially historical studies
- New Zealand literature, Australian literature, Southeast Asian literature, Canadian literature
- Reception of creative and/or expressive works (such as literature, paintings, installations)
- Science writing, nature writing
- Island studies
- Oral histories
- Identities
Titles of Independent Study Modules (ISMs) Previously Supervised (for USP students)
- Race Relations In Malaysia: War Memory And Nationalism
- The Modelling And Enactment Of Memory In Videogames
- Eating Mukbang: a Exploration into Disgust, Shame and the Fat Female Body
- Illness And Pain In The Lyric Essay Form
- The Changing Perceptions of Nature of USP students in the Module ULS2208
Publication List
- 'Nothing has ever come within cooee': Ben-Hur Down Under ca. 1900 (2021): reception scholarship, Australia
- 'Salut au monde!': Archipelagic Instruction in the Red Funnel Magazine (2019): NZ literature, island studies
- Chronicling Ben-Hur's Climb, 1880-1924 (2019): reception scholarship, US literature
- Take up the white man's burden (2016): reception scholarship, Scottish/Canadian literature