Aaron K. H. Ho

I have been teaching academic writing, English literature, and media studies since 2006 at a university level in New York, Singapore, and China. My research interests include East and Southeast Asian cultures, media studies, gender and sexuality, digital humanities, and Victorian literature.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D English (with a Certificate in Film Studies), 2010-2017
• MPhil English, 2006-2010
• B.A. English Literature with a Certificate from University Scholars Programme, 2nd Upper Honours, 2002-2006
• WSET Level 1 Award in Wines 2018

PUBLICATIONS

My interdisciplinary research usually centers around the gendered and sexual differences between Western and (East and Southeast) Asian societies seen through cultural artifacts such as media, literature, and societal phenomena. Increasingly, the primary texts I engage with are digital in nature, and so my work can be considered part of digital humanities.

Books:

• "Is It Because I'm Chinese?": Chinese Privilege in Singapore Paperback – June 29, 2021 by Dr. Aaron K. H. Ho (Author)

Journal

• “The Lack of Chinese Lesbians: Double Crossing in Blue Gate Crossing.” Genders 49, Spring 2009.
• “Why read Oscar Wilde’s Teleny?” The Oscholars, Autumn 2008.

Book Editor

• “I Want Freedom and Power”: Essays on Witches on Twenty-First Century Television from Charmed to The Chilling Tales of Sabina. North Carolina: McFarland & Company, forthcoming 2020.

Book Articles

• “Recovery from Trauma in Post–9/11 Horror/Terror of Mike Flanagan’s Oeuvre.” The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaptation. Ed. Kevin Wetmore. North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2020. 74-84.

• "Witches with Disabilities on Television." Essays on Witches on Twenty-First Century Television from Charmed to The Chilling Tales of Sabina. North Carolina: McFarland & Company, forthcoming 2020.

• “Pornography, Post-womanhood, and Female Nudity.” Vying for the Iron Throne: Essays on Power, Gender, Death and Performance in HBO’s Game of Thrones. Eds. Lindsey Mantoan and Sara Brady. North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2018. 28-39.

• “How to Bring Singaporeans Up Straight.” Queer Singapore: Illiberal Citizenship and Mediated Cultures. Eds. Audrey Yue and Jun Zubillaga-Pow. Hong Kong UP, 2012. 29-44.

Encyclopaedic Entries

• “Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre: Education, Gender and Love.” Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature. Ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple. USA: Facts on File Inc, 2010.

• “Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day: Ambition, Ethics and Identity.” Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature. Ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple. USA: Facts on File Inc, 2010.

Conference

• “Is there a NEST in this Class? The Trouble with the Native/Non- Native English Speaking Teachers Dialectic.” BMCC-TLC Colloquium – Pedagogies in Praxis: Testimonies from the Composition Classroom, CUNY, 27 Feb 2007.

Book Review

• Book review on First Queer Voices from Thailand by Peter A. Jackson. Sojourn 34.1 (Jan 2019): 224-7.
• Book review on Sticky Rice: A Politics of Intraracial Desire. Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 19.1 (2019): 65-8.

Fiction

• “Lighter.” Poem. Quarterly Literary Review Singapore 11 (3), Jul 2012.