EBFP 2022 Judge:
PROF. SHIRLEY CHEW

Shirley Chew is Professor Emeritus, University of Leeds, UK; and currently a Professor at the School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests include Postcolonial and Contemporary World Literatures. Among her publications are the co-Translating Life: Studies in Transpositional Aesthetics (1999), Re-constructing the Book: Literary Texts in Transmission (2001), and the Blackwell Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature (2010). More recent publications include chapters in books and journal articles on Olive Senior (2011/2015), Wole Soyinka (2012), Amitav Ghosh (2013), Boey Kim Cheng (2015), Anita Desai (2018), Han Suyin (2021). She is the founding editor of Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings (2001-present), published from the University of Leeds, and, since 2011, from Leeds and NTU.

She was a judge of the David Cohen Literature Prize for 2013; and the Singapore Literature Prize (English Fiction category) for 2016.

2022 Judging Panel