Hannah Ming Yit HO
Assistant Professor
PhD (University of York, United Kingdom)
About
Dr Hannah M. Y. Ho is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Asian Studies (IAS) and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), Universiti Brunei Darussalam. She is also a Research Associate at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
Dr Ho previously held postdoctoral fellowships at King’s College London and the University of California, Berkeley, and was a Southeast Asian Fellow at the National University of Singapore. In 2024, she was listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University.
Her research examines literary representations of Bruneian identities, mobilities, technologies, and mental health. She has received research grants to study Chinese language education in Brunei and Chinese Bruneian communities, which culminated in the publication of Stories of the Chinese Communities in Brunei Darussalam (2023).
She serves as Associate Editor of Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal and as Southeast Asia Section Editor for The Year’s Work in English Studies (Oxford University Press). She is also the Southeast Asia Section Editor for the Literary Encyclopedia, where her focus is on Bruneian literatures.
Research Interests
- Southeast Asian Literatures, with an emphasis on Bruneian Literature
- Contemporary and Comparative Literatures
- Chinese Communities, Culture, and Language Education
- Mobilities, Migration, and Transnational Identities
Selected Publications
Edited Books
Ho, H. M. Y., & Chan, Y. K. (Eds.). (2025). Transnational Southeast Asia: Communities, contestations and cultures. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3608-2
Ho, H. M. Y., & Deterding, D. (Eds.). (2021). Engaging modern Brunei: Research on language, literature and culture. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4721-2
Journal Articles
Ho, H. M. Y. (2025). An alter-native cultural imaginary of Brunei Darussalam in Tina Afiqah’s The Bubble Princess and the Stone Heart. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 61(6).
Ho, H. M. Y. (2025). Contested homes in speculative futurities in Anglophone Bruneian fiction. Science Fiction Studies, 52(1), 95-114.
Ho, H. M. Y. (2024). Budaya pendidikan di Brunei Darussalam: Penyertaan cosmopolitan melalui bahasa. Rampak Serantau 29, 384-404.
Ho, H. M. Y. (2024). Desis’ identity crisis in America: Examining cultural and racial politics in Samira Ahmed’s Love, Hate and Other Filters (2018) and Sanjena Sathian’s Gold Diggers (2021). South Asian Diaspora, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/19438192.2024.2363684
Ho, H. M. Y. (2024). Southeast Asia. The Year’s Work in English Studies. Oxford University Press.
Ho, H. M. Y. (2023). History, memory and duality: Malaysia’s national amnesia in Chuah Guat Eng’s Days of Change. Kritika Kultura, 41, 6-28.
Ho, H. M. Y. (2023). Reframing loss: Chinese diaspora identity in K. H. Lim’s Written in Black. Suvannabhumi, 15(1), 131-152.
Ho, H. M. Y. (2023). Resilient women: Transnational homes and identities in Tahmima Anam’s A Golden Age. South Asian Diaspora, 15(2), 255-270.
Book Chapters
Ho, H. M. Y. (2025). Healing homes: Female agency in Chinese anglophone literature in Brunei Darussalam. In N. Ahmad & K. G. Ooi (Eds.), Women’s agency and the state in contemporary Brunei. Routledge.
Ho, H. M. Y. (2025). The temporal mundane in Anglophone Chinese diaspora writing from Brunei Darussalam. In K. G. Ooi & Kathrina Mohd Daud (Eds.), Literature in Brunei: History, culture and challenges. Routledge.
Ho, H. M. Y. (2025). Traversing transnationalism: Enrique’s Malayness in historical fiction from Southeast Asia. In H. M. Y. Ho & Y. K. Chan (Eds.), Transnational Southeast Asia: Communities, contestations and cultures (pp. 241-256). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3608-2_15
Ho, H. M. Y., & Chan, Y. K. (2025). Interrogating the transnational paradigm in Southeast Asia: Communities, contestations and cultures. In H. M. Y. Ho & Y. K. Chan (Eds.), Transnational Southeast Asia: Communities, contestations and cultures (pp. 1-13). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3608-2_1
Nahar, S., & Ho, H. M. Y. (2025). Transnational Muslim identity crisis: A comparative analysis of The Accidental Malay and Seasonal Adjustments. In H. M. Y. Ho & Y. K. Chan (Eds.), Transnational Southeast Asia: Communities, contestations and cultures (pp. 193-209). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3608-2_12
Ho, H. M. Y., & Chan, Y. K. (2024). Teaching on the rise: Chinese education in Singapore and Brunei Darussalam. In A. Ranjan, D. Chattoraj, & A. K. M. A. Ullah (Eds.), India and China in Southeast Asia. Routledge.
Ho, H. M. Y. (2024). Narratives of healing and healers: Malay Muslim identity in contemporary Bruneian literature. In A. J. Rasmussen & M. Sodemann (Eds.), Narrative medicine: Trauma and ethics (pp. 237-247). Vernon Press.
Ho, H. M. Y., & Hoon, C. Y. (2024). Chinese language education in Brunei Darussalam: An instrument of China’s soft power. In L. Suryadinata (Ed.), Rising China’s soft power in Southeast Asia (pp. 200-214). Yusof-Ishak Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Press.
Ho, H. M. Y. (2023). Rethinking ‘amok’: Indigenous identity affirmation in Malay legends of Southeast Asia. In I. Pelea (Ed.), Culture-bound syndromes in popular culture. Routledge.
Special Issue
Poon, A., Ang A. S. L., & Ho, H. M. Y. (eds.). 2025. Special Issue on “Southeast Asian Literature.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 61(6).
Digital Essays/Public Scholarship
Ho, H. M. Y. (2024). Exploring mental health in English literature: Insights from Brunei Darussalam. Heinrich Boll Stiftung Research Foundation.
Ho, H. M. Y. (2023). Culture, education and literature: How are the Chinese faring in Brunei Darussalam? National University Singapore – Asia Research Institute. (Link)
Hoon, C. Y., & Ho, H. M. Y. (2023). Mandarin learning in Brunei’s Chinese schools: Practical considerations. Fulcrum. Yusof Ishak ISEAS Press. Singapore.
Ho, H. M. Y. (2022). Creating ripples for well-being: Post-pandemic mental health in Brunei Darussalam. Heinrich Boll Foundation. (Link)
Ho, H. M. Y. (2021). COVID-19 in Brunei Darussalam: How does the small nation cope? Heinrich Boll Foundation. (Link)
Ho, H. M. Y. (2021). Living with COVID-19 in Brunei Darussalam: A research update. National University Singapore – Asia Research Institute. (Link)
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