JOHAN GEERTSEMA
Associate Professor
University Scholars Programme,
National University of Singapore
uspjgh@nus.edu.sg
(65) 6516 1521
Brief Introduction
A/P Johan Geertsema joined USP in 2001. He has designed and taught a number of USP Writing and Critical Thinking (WCT) as well as Inquiry Tier modules. These modules are all informed by his research interests in literature and culture.
From 2004 to 2012, he was the editor of folio, which publishes writing produced by WCT students, and from 2011 to 2014, he acted as coordinator of the WCT. In 2015, he was appointed Director of the NUS Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning (CDTL), which is tasked with academic/faculty development at NUS. Over the years, he has developed a keen interest in higher education, especially in research-intensive contexts. His current research focuses on the importance of knowledge, expertise, and research for teaching; the meaning of student success and how to foster it; and what good teaching is. He serves as a Residential Fellow at Cinnamon College (USP) and in 2021, he was appointed Director of Studies at Ridge View Residential College.
He received his PhD in English Language and Literature from the University of Cape Town.
Teaching Modules @ USP
A/P Geertsema offers the following module:
He previously offered the following modules:
- Globalizing Food (Writing and Research module)
- Power, Space, and Pleasure (Writing and Critical Thinking module)
- Topics in Lit 2. - Understanding Irony
- Imagining Animals
Research Interests
- Higher Education policy and practice
- The writing of J. M. Coetzee
- Narrative
- Ethics
- Ecology
Titles of Independent Study Modules (ISMs) Previously Supervised
- Writing as Performance: The Ethics of Reading and Writing in J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello and Diary of a Bad Year.
- Comedy, Irony, and Aestheticism in Wodehouse and Wilde
- Satire and Parody in Singapore’s New Media
- Narrative Techniques and the Representation of the Other