Assistant Professor in Communications and Cultural Studies

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Name Dr K. Cohen Tan

Personal Details

Assistant Professor in Communications and Cultural Studies

Qualifications

BA in Literature and Philosophy (National University of Singapore)

BA (Hons) in Literature (National University of Singapore)

MA in Critical Theory (Nottingham)

PhD in Critical Theory (Nottingham)

Awards

Chancellor’s Award 2011-12

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Contact

Web

Room 336, Admin Building

199 Taikang East Road

Ningbo 315100

China

Expertise Summary

K. Cohen Tan has lived in the UK for close to a decade, and has worked on two campuses of the University of Nottingham. He first joined the University of Nottingham during his PhD studyas a Teaching Associate in School of Modern Languages and Cultures from 2009 to 2011, where he taught undergraduate modules on Psychoanalysis and Semiotics. During that time, he also held the position of Senior Tutor at Cavendish Hall. He moved to the University of Nottingham Ningbo Campus in 2011 as a Teaching Fellow in the Division of International Communications, and won the inaugural Chancellor’s Award 2011-12 for teaching.

His research interest is in critical and cultural theories, comparative and continental philosophies, and their scope for meaningful interaction.He studied creative writing with Singapore’s national poet Edwin Thumboo and guest-recorded for an anthology of short stories for the “Read Around” series.

His PhD dissertation took a comparative study of Jacques Derrida (20th century French Deconstruction theorist) and Nāgārjuna (2nd century Indian Buddhist philosopher), theorising the relation between the deconstructive concept of différance and the Buddhist concept of śūnyatā (emptiness). He is currently working on a monograph publication of the dissertation, and will be editing a forthcoming book with Andy White.

Professional Memberships

The Buddhist Society of Britain

British Philosophical Association (BPA)

British Humanist Association (BHA)

International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU)

Teaching

(UG)

Critical Communications

Media and Texts: Society

Media and Texts: Culture

Psychoanalysis

Semiotics

(PG)

Admin duties

Research Ethics Subcommittee

Foundation/Pre-Masters Year Convenor

School Moodle Admin

Research interests

Deconstruction, Buddhist Philosophy, Modernist Literature and Modernism, Literary Theory, Critical and Cultural Theory, Semiotics, Structuralism and Post-structuralism, Existentialism, Media Theory (McLuhan)

Works in Progress:

Nāgārjuna and the Emptiness of Emptiness (Article, forthcoming)

Between Mārga and Démarche: A Reply to Magliola and Loy (Monograph, forthcoming)

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