Geraldine Heng

Geraldine Heng is an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Perceval Fellow, with a joint appointment in Middle Eastern studies and Women’s studies, at the University of Texas at Austin.[1] She is noted as a key figure in the development of postcolonial approaches to the European Middle Ages.[2][3] Her book The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages (2018) won the Association of American Publishers subject category award for world history.[4]

Life and work

Education

Heng completed her MA degree at the National University of Singapore in 1980, with a thesis entitled "Tilting at Windmills: A Study of Nick Joaquin".[5] She proceeded to study at Cornell University, completing her Ph.D. thesis, Gender Magic: Desire, Romance, and the Feminine in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in 1990.[6]

Work

Amongst other work, Heng is noted for the article 'State Fatherhood: The Politics of Nationalism, Sexuality, and Race in Singapore', co-written with her husband Janadas Devan,[7][8] critiquing resistance to same-sex marriage in Singapore.[9]

Heng is also the first woman from Singapore to publish a collection of poetry in English, white-dreams (1976).[10]

Books
  • England and the Jews: How Religion and Violence Created the First Racial State in the West (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
  • The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018)
  • Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), ISBN 0231125275
  • Whitedreams (Singapore: Woodrose Publications, 1976) [poetry]
  • The Sun in her Eyes: Stories by Singapore Women, ed. by Geraldine Heng (Singapore: Woodrose Publications, 1976)
gollark: Destroying (well, damaging in the longish run) human civilization, yes, that's quite easy, but the *Earth*?
gollark: Global warming is ALSO not destroying the Earth. The Earth is very hard to destroy.
gollark: It's described in terms of maths. I can't randomly conjure physical laws into existence by mathematically describing them.
gollark: > I think I will use politicians -- oh, wait, that's already happening.Politicians are NOT destroying the Earth. That would require directed and focused effort.
gollark: That seems like one of those not-actually-meaningful fake profound things.

References
  1. Geraldine Heng
  2. Simon Gaunt, 'Can the Middle Ages be Postcolonial?', Comparative Literature, 61.2 (2009), 160-76. doi:10.1215/00104124-2009-004.
  3. Laurie A. Finke, 'Géraldine Heng, Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003)', Arthuriana, 15.2 (Summer 2005), 71-72. doi:10.1353/art.2005.0016.
  4. 'Association of American Publishers Announces Subject Category Winners of 2019 Prose Awards', States News Service (29 January 2019).
  5. Geraldine Heng Guan Noi, "Tilting at Windmills: A Study of Nick Joaquin" (unpublished MA thesis, National University of Singapore, 1980).
  6. Geraldine G. Heng, "Gender Magic: Desire, Romance, and the Feminine in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Cornell University, 1990).
  7. Geraldine Heng, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018), p. xiii.
  8. K. Kanagalatha, 'Mother was our World', The Straits Times (13 May 2018).
  9. Geraldine Heng and Janadas Devan, 'State Fatherhood: The Politics of Nationalism, Sexuality, and Race in Singapore', in Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia, ed. Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995, pp. 195–215.
  10. Patke, Rajeev S (Spring 2000). "Poetry in English from Singapore". World Literature Today: 293-299.


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