Recently Awarded PhDs

2017

• Joshua Black Queer Male Identities in Modern Vietnamese Literature
• Kulyanee Jongjairuksa A Sociological Approach to the Translation of Chinese Martial Arts Fiction into Thai

2015

• Sangeeta Bhardwaj Sojourner Turned Settler: Literary Representations of the Malaysian/Singaporean Punjabi Diaspora in the Works of its Writers in English

2014

• M Arif Rokhman Encountering the Other in the Works of the Indonesian Literary Association Forum Lingkar Pena

2013

• Harlina Md Sharif Mosques in Island Southeast Asia 15th-20th Century

2011

• Janit Feangfu (Ir)resistibly modern the construction of modern Thai identities in Thai literature during the Cold War era, 1958-1976
• Irene Soldavini Indentity in Vietnamese Diasporic Cinema
• Atit Pongpanit The bitter-sweet portrayals of expressing and maintaining “non-normative” genders and sexualities in Thai mainstream cinema from 1980 to 2010

2010

• Ida Bahar The Paradigm of Malayness in Literature and Malaysian Scholarship