About the speaker

Dr Lee Chee Keng is a Senior Lecturer at NUS College, as well as a dramaturg and translator. His work explores Asian performance, intercultural exchange, and the relationships between culture, history, and everyday life. He studied Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore and directed at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing. At NUS College, he designs and leads Global Experience courses that connect field observation with critical cultural inquiry, and supervises collaborative creative projects with local communities in Thailand. He was a co-investigator of “Mapping Middle Road,” a project researching Singapore’s prewar Japanese community. He has also translated Tadashi Suzuki’s Culture Is the Body into Chinese.