Doctor Ee Ling Quah
Senior Lecturer,
Humanities (Arts)
Biography
Dr Quah Ee Ling (she/her) is a fire dragon feminist, queer migrant woman and Senior Lecturer & Convenor, Culture and Society with School of Humanities & Communication Arts. Ee Ling is Singaporean of Chinese-Hokkien and Indonesian-Peranakan heritage. The correct order of her name is surname (Quah) first followed by given name (Ee Ling). Ee Ling developed her own strand of feminism - fire dragon feminism to blow flames at injustices and build solidarities for more just and sustainable futures. She has no patience for racism, patriarchy, misogyny and heteronormativity.
Ee Ling is the author of Transnational Divorce: Understanding Intimacies and Inequalities from Singapore (Routledge 2020) and Perspectives on Marital Dissolution: Divorce Biographies in Singapore (Springer 2015). Her research on heteronormativity, intersectionality, gender, sexuality, queer studies, race, anti-racism, migration, transnational studies, emotions and intimacies have also appeared in Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies, Gender, Work and Organisation, Journal of Family Issues, Emotion, Space and Society, Journal of Sociology, Australian Feminist Studies, Marriage & Family Review and Sydney Review of Books. She is an editorial management board member of Emotions and Society.
Her current research projects include: 1. Australian Research Council Linkage project on Place-based Employment and Enterprise of Newly-Arrived Young Migrant Women (2023-26, with Sukhmani Khorana, Nida Denson and Teddy Nagaddya); 2. Fire Dragon Feminism: Asian Migrant Women's Tales of Migration, Coloniality and Racial Capitalism book project (forthcoming with Bloomsbury); 3. JIA: Peer Support Network for Forcibly Displaced Chinese-Speaking Queers in Australia (funded by Pride Foundation Australia & Sidney Myers Fund via Australia New Zealand Tongzhi Rainbow Alliance).
Ee Ling has a PhD from University of Sydney, Master of Social Science and Bachelor of Arts from National University of Singapore. After her PhD in 2013, she went on to achieve a highly competitive postodctoral fellowship and a subsequent research fellowship with National University of Singapore, Asia Research Institute. Prior to WSU, she was a senior lecturer in Sociology with University of Wollongong (UOW) from 2016-2022. At UOW, she was awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Rosemary Cooper Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Award 2020 and served as the Chair of UOW Ally Network for four years.
At WSU, she is the subject coordinator of first-year core Bachelor of Arts subject, Diversity, Language and Culture. She is also the Deputy Academic Lead of WSU Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE), and a member of Institute for Culture & Society, Writing & Society Research Centre, and Sexualities & Genders Research.
This information has been contributed by Doctor Quah.
Qualifications
- PhD University of Sydney
- MSocSc National University of Singapore
- BA National University of Singapore
Professional Memberships
- Editorial Management Board Member, Emotions and Society (2022)
Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Humanities (Arts)
Contact
| Email: | eeling@westernsydney.edu.au |
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Teaching
Previous Teaching Areas
- HUMN1053 Diversity, Language and Culture, 2022
- HUMN1053 Diversity, Language and Culture, 2023
- HUMN1066 Introduction to Culture and Society, 2022
Publications
Books
- Quah, E. (2020), 'Transnational Divorce: Understanding Intimacies and Inequalities from Singapore', : Routledge 9781138389632.
- Quah, E. (2015), 'Perspectives on Marital Dissolution: Divorce Biographies in Singapore', : Springer 9789812874641.
Chapters in Books
- Quah, E. and Tang, S. (2023), 'Exploring Southeast Asian queer migrant biographies : queer utopia, capacitations, and debilitations', Queer Southeast Asia, Routledge 9781032340890.
- Quah, E. (2021), 'Transnational divorces in Singapore : experiences of low-income divorced marriage migrant women', Migration and Marriage in Asian Contexts, Routledge 9781032146591.
- Quah, E. (2018), 'Cross-cultural families in Singapore : transnational marriages and divorces', Family and Population Changes in Singapore: A Unique Case in the Global Family Change, Routledge 9780815363323.
- Quah, E. and Tang, S. (2018), 'Divorced and never-married mothers in Singapore : practices, challenges and hopes', Family and Population Changes in Singapore: A Unique Case in the Global Family Change, Routledge 9780815363323.
- Quah, E. (2013), 'Singapore', Cultural Sociology of Divorce: An Encyclopaedia, Sage Publications 9781412999588.
Journal Articles
- Quah, E. (2023), 'Gender and power', Sydney Review of Books, vol August 21, 2023 .
- Quah, E. (2023), '[In Press] Examining the political economy of heteronormativity in Southeast Asian queer migration biographies', Sexualities, .
- Quah, E. and Ridgway, A. (2022), 'The woman writer's body : multiplicity, neoliberalism, and feminist resistance', Gender, Work and Organization, vol 29, no 1 , pp 44 - 57.
- Quah, E. (2020), 'Transnational divorces in Singapore : experiences of low-income divorced marriage migrant women', Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol 46, no 14 , pp 3040 - 3058.
- Quah, E. (2020), 'The working of heteronormativity : transnational remarriage as pragmatic strategy', Journal of Family Issues, vol 41, no 7 , pp 937 - 956.
- Quah, E. (2020), 'Navigating emotions at the site of racism : feminist rage, queer pessimism and fire dragon feminism', Australian Feminist Studies, vol 35, no 105 , pp 203 - 216.
- Tang, S., Quah, E. and Quah, S. (2018), 'Heteronormativity and sexuality politics in Singapore : the female-headed households of divorced and lesbian mothers', Journal of Sociology, vol 54, no 4 , pp 647 - 664.
- Quah, E. (2018), 'Emotional reflexivity and emotion work in transnational divorce biographies', Emotion, Space and Society, vol 29 , pp 48 - 54.
- Quah, E. (2016), 'Reconfigured everyday lives of children from divorced-parent families in Singapore', Marriage and Family Review, vol 52, no 1-2 , pp 106 - 126.
- Quah, E. (2014), 'Negotiating post-divorce familial relationships : a case of Singapore divorce biographies', ARI Working Paper, vol 226 .
Conference Papers
- Quah, E. (2013), 'Pursuing self-fufilment in a divorce biography', Australian Sociological Association. Conference, Melbourne, Vic..
- Quah, E. (2011), 'Between communitarianism and individualisation : a discussion on Singaporean family life', Australian Sociological Association. Conference, University of Newcastle, N.S.W..
- Quah, E. (2010), 'Choice and connectedness : explaining divorcees' experiences through kinship and self', Australian Sociological Association, Sydney, Australia.
- Quah, E. (2010), '"Can't do without friends" : a study of the empowering experience of divorcees through friendship and self', Asian Studies Association of Australia, University of Adelaide, Australia.
Exhibitions
- 2023, 'Migrants' Flight Towards Dreams in the Horizon'
- 2023, 'Fire Dragon Feminism: A Breathe in'
Other Publications
- 2023, 'Quah Ee Ling: If the Situation Is Sick, You Will Be Too', Recorded Work
- 2022, 'Understanding Diversity Service Workers' Knowledge and Skills Gap in Servicing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Queer Communities', Report
Research Interests:
Transnational, intersectional and decolonial feminist perspectives; Anti-coloniality; Migration; Race & Anti-Racism; Genders & Sexualities; Queer studies; Emotions; Divorce & transnational divorce; Inequalities & Social Justice; and Social Policy
Current Projects:
- ARC Linkage Grant Project (2023-2026) Place-based Employment and Enterprise of Newly Arrived Young Woman in Southwest Sydney
- Fire Dragon Feminism: Asian Migrant Women's Tales of Migration, Coloniality and Racial Capitalism (forthcoming with Bloomsbury)
- JIA: Peer Support Network for Forcibly Displaced Chinese-Speaking Queers in Australia (funded by Pride Foundation Australia & Sidney Myers Fund via Australia New Zealand Tongzhi Rainbow Alliance)
- Southeast Asian Queer Migration
- Culturally and Linguistically Diverse LGBTIQA+ Communities
- Anti-coloniality in the academy
Selected Competitive Research Grants:
- Australian Research Council Linkage Grant 2023-26, 'Place-based Employment and Enterprise of Newly Arrived Young Woman', Co-Chief Investigator (with Sukhmani Khorana, Nida Denson and Teddy Nagaddya)
- Pride Foundation Australia & Sidney Myer Fund via Australia New Zealand Tongzhi Rainbow Alliance (ANTRA) for JIA: PEER SUPPORT NETWORK FOR FORCIBLY DISPLACED CHINESE SPEAKING QUEERS IN AUSTRALIA, 2023
- University of Wollongong Faculty of the Arts, Social Science and Humanities Special Studies Program funding, 2021
- University of Wollongong Community Engagement Grant, ‘Understanding diversity service workers’ knowledge and skills gap in servicing culturally and linguistically diverse LGBTIQ+ communities in the context of COVID-19’, Chief Investigator, 2020
- University of Wollongong Jindaola Grant, ‘Decolonising Humanities and Social Inquiry curriculum through giving importance to Indigenous knowledges and perspectives’, Chief Investigator, 2020
- University of Wollongong University Internationalisation Committee International Links Scheme Grant, ‘Enhance teaching and research collaborations with Wuhan University’, Co-Chief Investigator, 2019
- University of Wollongong University Internationalisation Committee International Links Scheme Grant, ‘Building collaborative research capacity with Wuhan University’, Chief Investigator, 2018
- University of Wollongong Faculty Challenge Grant, ‘Popular misogyny, sexism, military masculinity in Singapore’, Chief Investigator, 2017
- Singapore Government's Ministry of Social and Family Development Family Research Fund, ‘An exploratory study on Singaporean divorcees from transnational marriages’, Chief Investigator, 2015 – 2016
- Research Fellowship awarded by the National University of Singapore (NUS), Asia Research Institute (ARI), Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
- Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded by NUS, ARI, Jun 2013 - Dec 2014
- NUS ARI Research Grant awarded by NUS, ARI, ‘A cross-national comparison study on post-divorce support in Australia and Singapore’, Chief Investigator, 2014
This information has been contributed by Doctor Quah.
Current Projects
| Title: | Place-based employment and enterprise of newly arrived young migrant women |
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| Western Researchers: | Sukhmani Khorana, Teddy Nagaddya, Ee Ling Quah and Nida Denson |
| Years: | 2023-01-30 - 2026-01-30 |
| ID: | P00028150 |
| Title: | JIA: Peer Support Network for Forcibly Displaced Chinese Speaking Queers in Australia [Via ANTRA] |
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| Western Researchers: | Ee Ling Quah |
| Years: | 2023-09-01 - 2024-08-31 |
| ID: | P00028852 |