Su Fang Ng
Invited Talks
“The Transnational Mirror for Princes.” Conference on “Mercury guide my tongue: English among the literatures of the early modern world,” CUNY Graduate Center, April 5, 2019.
“Alexander and Fictions of Worldmaking from Britain to Southeast Asia.” Keynote lecture, Early Modern Conference, “Worldmaking, 1500-1800,” University of California at Santa Barbara, February 22-23, 2019.
“In the Orbit of the Ottomans: English and Malay Literatures of Contact.” Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Pennsylvania, September 12, 2018.
“How to Talk to Strangers: Interpreters in Early Modern Encounters." Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin at Madison, October 30, 2017.
“Islamic Legends of Alexander in Southeast Asia.” Department of Classics, Department of English, and Program in Asian Studies, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, April 21, 2017.
“Literary and Other Lives of Interpreters.” Visiting Fellows Seminar, All Souls College, Oxford University, May 17, 2016.
“Translinguality and Anglo-Malay Exchanges in the Early Modern East Indies.” Fellows Dinner Talk, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Excellenzcluster “Asia and Europe,” Heidelberg University, Germany, January 20, 2016.
“Genealogical Memory: Constructing Female Rule in Seventeenth-Century Aceh.” Plenary speaker, panel on “Commemorations.” Attending to Early Modern Women Conference, June 18-20, 2015.
“Bare-forked Animals: King Lear and the Problems of Patriarchalism.” Family Politics in Early Modern England. Symposium at King’s College London, 15-16 November, 2013.
“Speaking Transnationally: Linguistic Worlds in Early English Voyages to Asia.” Japan-Britain, 1613: A Conference Exploring Parallels and Exchanges, SOAS, University of London, 19-21 September, 2013.
“In Accents Yet Unknown: Re-siting the Early Modern Transnational.” Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Tulane University, New Orleans, March 22, 2013.
“Anglo-Dutch Relations Through Native Eyes.” Symposium on the English and Dutch in the Early Modern World, sponsored by Purdue University and organized by Kristina Bross and Majorie Rubright, Newberry Library, Chicago, October 19, 2012.
Reviewed by Sandra M. Gustafson, “Symposium on the English and the Dutch in the Early Modern World,” Early American Literature 48.2 (2013): 523-25.
“Toward A New Comparative Literature.” University of Pittsburgh, March 30, 2012.
“Speaking Transnationally: Early Modern European Cross-Cultural Exchanges with Islamic Southeast Asia.” Pittsburgh Medieval & Renaissance Consortium, Carnegie Mellon University, March 29, 2012.
“Dutch Wars and Spice Islands.” Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 1, 2011.
“Alexanders East and West.” Harrington Symposium, Amarillo College, Amarillo, TX, April 29, 2010.
“Dutch Wars, Global Poems: Dryden’s Annus Mirabilis (1666) and Amin’s Sya’ir Perang Mengkasar (1670).” Comparative Literature Luncheon Lecture Series, Pennsylvania State University, State College, October 26, 2009.
“Dutch Wars, Global Trade, and the Heroic Poem: Dryden’s Annus Mirabilis (1666) and Amin’s Sya’ir Perang Mengkasar (1670).” Symposium on Comparative Early Modernities, 1100-1800, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 17-18, 2009.
“Alexander Between East and West.” Judd Kimball Lecture in Classics, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, March 6, 2008.
“Alexander in Asia: Shared Histories and Cultural Exchanges from the British Isles to the Malay Archipelago.” English Department Colloquium, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, October 5, 2006.
Conference Talks
“Hamlet and Arabic Literary Networks.” Organized paper panel on “Transnational Shakespeare.” Shakespeare Association of America Forty-Third Annual Meeting, Vancouver, B.C., April 1-4, 2015.
“Islands in the East: Southeast Asia in the Medieval Imaginary.” Panel on “Insular Spaces,” 18th Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Portland, OR, July 23-26, 2012.
“Transoceanic Malay: Diplomacy, Mercantilism, and Translingual Exchanges in Early Modern Aceh.” Panel on “Renaissance Oceans,” arranged by the Division on Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature and the Division on Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose, Modern Languages Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, January 5-8, 2012.
“Religious Selves, Racial Others: Comparative Conversions in Mandeville’s Travels and the Islamic Malay Alexander Romance.” Panel on “Comparative Conversion,” arranged by the Division on Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature, Modern Languages Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, January 5-8, 2012.
“The Traffic in Monsters: The Scottish Buik of Alexander and the Malay Hikayat Iskandar Zulkarnain.” Panel on “The Transcultural Middle Ages,” 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 12-15, 2011.
“Religion, Romance, and Gunpowder Politics: Fletcher’s Island Princess in the Maluku.” Shakespeare Association of America Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 9-11, 2009.