Dr Nicole Ong

Selected Publications

Book Chapters / Journals

• Nicole Ong. “Listening to Lost Voices: Reading Wartime Rape in Vyvyane Loh’s Breaking the Tongue.” Reading Violence and Trauma in Asia and the World, edited by Yiru Lim and Kit Ying Lye, Routledge, 2024, pp. 178–190.

   

• Nicole Ong. “Reshaping Narratives of Recovery in Sonali Deraniyagala’s Wave.” Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, vol. 20, no. 2, 2021, 99–112. 

   

• Leah Honda Tan and Nicole Ong. “From Words to Images: Translating Memory in The Garden of Evening Mists.” Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, vol. 20, no. 1, 2020, 112–116.

   

• Nicole Ong. “The Language of Touch: Re-Thinking Silence and Trauma Restoration in Anil’s Ghost.” Philament vol. 25, no. 1, 2019, 29–52.

 

Edited Books

• Assault on the Body: Sexual Violence and the Gospel Community, edited by Nicole Ong, Raphael Zhang, Jonathan Cho, Ng Zhi-Wen, Bernice Lee, and Ronald JJ Wong, Graceworks: Singapore, 2023.

 

Conference Presentations

• “Language for Justice: Analysing Narrative Strategies that Assist with Reporting Sexual Abuse.” Caring and Taking Care, University of Palermo, 9 Sep 2024. 

   

• “Stories Entangled with the Faith of my Father.” Authenticity and Adaptation: Association of Adaptation Studies, University of Birmingham, 7–9 June 2023.

   

• “Guilt, Gaps, and Gardens: Bearing Witness to a Comfort Woman in Tan Twan Eng’s The Garden of Evening Mists.” American Comparative Literature Association, Virtual Conference, 15–18 June 2022. 

   

• “Shaping Silence in Literature.” Seeking Voices / Seeking Silences, Boston University, 4 April 2020.

   

• “Trauma Restoration in Sonali Deraniyagala’s Wave.” Explorations of Water in the Humanities and Beyond, University of Idaho, 27 Apr 2019.

   

• “The Unspoken Stories: Reimagining Trauma Restoration in Contemporary War Fiction.” War and Trauma in Past and Present, Bamberg University, 9–10 Mar 2018.

   

• “Stories in Stone: Bearing Witness to the Silenced in Anil’s Ghost.” Aesthetics in the Aftermath of Atrocity, Salem State University, 3–4 Nov 2017.