https://www.liqipeh.com/blog daily 0.75 2025-02-28 https://www.liqipeh.com/blog/a-small-love monthly 0.5 2025-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/1740719649455-IG1WPPYU6LSOJ3JQGGS4/unsplash-image-m-gqDRzbJLQ.jpg Blog - A Small Love - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.liqipeh.com/blog/on-charismatic-friendships monthly 0.5 2024-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/5198c176-c729-4ae4-97fc-c31b047b2961/grief+is+for+people.jpg Blog - On Charismatic Friendships - Make it stand out https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374609849/griefisforpeople https://www.liqipeh.com/blog/open-forms monthly 0.5 2024-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/6db20ece-818d-45b7-a52d-e300270d7eca/the+rose.jpeg Blog - Open Forms - Make it stand out Image source: https://whitney.org/collection/works/10075 https://www.liqipeh.com/blog/8xsgcxkiulgb8vbpgxueto8ldqndzu monthly 0.5 2024-05-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/40237a75-2efd-4620-81b7-2675725b95dc/Screenshot+2024-05-24+133330.png Blog - Asking for feedback - Make it stand out Source: https://strategicdiscipline.positioningsystems.com/blog-0/absorb-adapt-become-a-human-sponge-hidden-potential https://www.liqipeh.com/blog/energy-makes-time monthly 0.5 2023-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/1697594767159-4EB6SOZHBNDM3EB00TXQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Energy makes time - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.liqipeh.com/blog/mosaic-psychobitch monthly 0.5 2023-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/1693710147855-0EI1AUA1CVM16Y1MF9B3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Mosaic + Psychobitch - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.liqipeh.com/blog/hard-choices-and-easy-decisions monthly 0.5 2023-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/1681959501097-F5OFHVYRSR5Z7Q10CTOD/unsplash-image-fqkrXYMosT4.jpg Blog - Hard Choices and Easy Decisions - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.liqipeh.com/blog/the-end-of-things monthly 0.5 2023-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/1677521084541-MP0JKO6K1HYSQ2FVWYA7/unsplash-image-xO5nGXHqMak.jpg Blog - What if it all went right? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.liqipeh.com/blog/on-inconvenient-communities monthly 0.5 2022-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/261e1ac4-f752-491c-b517-bf7790158748/318003393_1484747482019214_1620723591712430222_n.jpg Blog - On Inconvenient Communities - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/eab80525-b08f-4f8d-a240-a46d0d63905c/318862216_1359802064423793_7127793144602095074_n.jpg Blog - On Inconvenient Communities - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.liqipeh.com/blog/hearty-breakfasts monthly 0.5 2022-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/3b27d6d3-9b5e-44f0-8471-deb91194605d/mee+rebus.jpg Blog - Hearty breakfasts! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.liqipeh.com/blog/what-i-will-miss-about-princeton monthly 0.5 2022-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/02143462-73d7-4c56-ba24-b1fa388adec7/BIRDS.jpg Blog - What I will miss most about Princeton - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.liqipeh.com/blog/jiorc7qvtfxe858btzbhvk71pk1d7h-9tfdc monthly 0.5 2022-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/2559fcab-f349-4782-8650-0703c0e67faa/637887227106392692.jpg Blog - End of a Chapter - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.liqipeh.com/blog/jiorc7qvtfxe858btzbhvk71pk1d7h monthly 0.5 2022-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/62ee9bea-fdf4-48ca-be1e-97aa6ab3f9b4/blob+2.jpg Blog - Blobs! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.liqipeh.com/home daily 1.0 2024-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/a53b7643-357a-41d7-bd51-6c2693c14dd8/headshot.jpg Li Qi Peh: A Portfolio I am presently a Nanyang Assistant Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University Singapore. More information about this named tenure-track appointment, which is accompanied by a start-up grant of up to S$1 million, can be found here. I am also the current president of The Southeast Asian Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (SASECS), an official constituent society of The International Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS). In 2024, I was the recipient of the MOE START Inauguration Grant. Previously, I was a Lecturer at Princeton University, where I taught in the Writing Program. I received my MA and PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and my BA from the National University of Singapore. My research and teaching focus on the intersections between literature and science, with a particular interest in how seventeenth- and eighteenth-century beliefs about these two fields continue to shape us today. My work is published in Configurations, Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture, and ELH. A smattering of things that intrigue me can be found at my blog. https://www.liqipeh.com/research daily 0.75 2023-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/1643553448171-EVTLVZ03PLML1KAYB2BD/unsplash-image-IG96K_HiDk0.jpg Research - Caring at a Distance: Dispassionate Bonds of Community in the Long Eighteenth Century Caring at a Distance argues that for a diverse group of scientists and poets writing at different points in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the process of observing a scene of suffering without emotion forges relations between the sufferers of pain and their witnesses by making pain an objective, shareable fact that even wildly disparate individuals can jointly attest to. Studied with the disinterestedness that was foundational to the practice of early experimental science, pain does not remain a private, overwhelming experience accessible to others only via the nebulous workings of the imagination, but is instead rendered publicly verifiable by virtue of being understood as empirical phenomena apprehensible through the senses of all. Consequently, it commands the attention of a community, and demands a communal response. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/1643560657699-NGUCCZL39764EUONELTQ/unsplash-image-f0vDEW7VoHY.jpg Research - Living and Leaving: A Geological View of Death Living and Leaving revises established understandings of grief and remembrance by locating the dead and dying against the backdrop of deep time. Surveying the geological treatises, travel narratives, sermons, and folktales from the mid eighteenth- to the mid nineteenth- century, a time commonly thought of as the “golden age” of geology, it shows that for many writers of this period, fossils and skeletons conjure up a vision of death so intense that those looking upon these artifacts temporarily experience death as well. Observers of these remains see or feel themselves being covered with sediment, submerged in water, hardening into strata, and in general, being overwhelmed by the earth’s convulsions and slow, creeping movements. To witness a scene of death is to remember that our living bodies already know what it feels like to die. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/1643550361075-KD79WDDWK04C5JJ6J14G/unsplash-image-_ltsbX7dKzY.jpg Research - "Dispassionate Dissections and Their Emotional Rewards: Reading William Harvey and Richard Blackmore." Configurations 30, no. 1 (2022): 25-46. doi:10.1353/con.2022.0001. In this essay, I argue that the deep, almost rapturous piousness that the physician William Harvey and the poet Richard Blackmore exhibit in their works is built upon their conviction that the fluids that spurt from bodies in pain do so in accordance with nature's orderly rhythms. The wonder that Harvey and Blackmore feel at the beauty of a divinely ordered world, that is, cannot exist without their adoption of an indifferent attitude towards injury and death. By attending to the emotions that indifference enables or magnifies, I interpret indifference as an affective stance that prepares one to experience other forms of feeling instead of a standalone and all-encompassing state of being. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/1643550435329-O4HYG3HCREB15GI5SV4O/unsplash-image-I7oLRdM9YIw.jpg Research - “Fragile Communities in the Crusoe Trilogy.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 51 (2022): 175-191. This essay examines the Crusoe trilogy against the backdrop of the trading guilds of eighteenth-century London, tracing how Crusoe employs similar strategies to those employed by the guilds to grow and maintain his membership. Contrary to Ian Watt’s influential claim that Crusoe stands as an emblem of individualism, I propose that Crusoe is more akin to the leader of a group or commune who builds and maintains filiative and affiliative relations through the use of coercion and violence. In the uncertain world that Daniel Defoe has crafted, the production and exchange of goods and the destruction of life and property all count as rational, economic decisions, for these decisions are all made in a bid to ensure the survival of the groups Crusoe belongs to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/1659097644867-PI69BORVZT1A3C8NL2L6/unsplash-image-o6GEPQXnqMY.jpg Research - Review of Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic, by Jennifer L. Morgan. Critical Inquiry. March 8, 2022. https://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/li_qipehreviews_reckoning_with_slavery/ “What Reckoning with Slavery brings to literary-historical studies, then, is an archival practice that is at once historicist and reparative.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/1643550966181-DS1LAKF6X0B1CNYVR6O4/unsplash-image-suj3od1uMv8.jpg Research - Review of Minds in Motion: Imagining Empiricism in Eighteenth-Century British Travel Literature, by Anne M. Thell. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 31, no. 3 (2019): 604-606. muse.jhu.edu/article/720606. “Minds in Motion refines common understandings of objectivity because the story it tells is not simply one of detachment or disavowal, but is also one of intense subjective engagement. To distance themselves from their objects of study, the writers Thell examines invest significant amounts of imaginative and affective labor only to fail, and as Thell points out, their self-conscious responses to these failures provide objectivity with its distinctive shape in the period.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/1659097007949-CW1G2YYX97RZ7LV93OBH/unsplash-image-atIgjLlFryg.jpg Research - “Stedman’s Horror, Blake’s Indifference.” ELH 90 no. 2 (2023): 367-391. This essay studies the strange ambivalences of Stedman’s Narrative in order to develop an alternative account of how horror functions within the genre of natural history. As I hope to show, natural history, with its emphasis on sorting and categorization, does not merely create the conditions for horror. It also models a way of regarding horror with what I term “productive indifference.” Upon encountering horrifying scenes of torture and mutilation, the readers of Stedman's Narrative are not left paralyzed. Instead, they retain the emotional space necessary to plot out future courses of political action. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/1643559019212-25ACAAEUALL4A3J8XYLI/unsplash-image-bmf2bsv3Mw8.jpg Research - “Proofreading during the Pandemic.” Connecting Writing Centers Across Borders: A Blog of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship. August 8, 2020. https://www.wlnjournal.org/blog/ 2020/08/proofreading-during-the-pandemic/ “In times like these, however, a tiny bit of proofreading can be a form of care, and more importantly, the start of a fruitful conversation about how to find and fix errors in one’s own work.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/1643569788708-2JE1RBL9ZVPQ6IAGIR64/unsplash-image-zHgyrDmhGVo.jpg Research - A New Account of the East Indies A New Account of the East Indies is a digital project that attempts to make visible the deep global histories behind selected excerpts from Alexander Hamilton’s 1727 travel narrative of the same name. Hamilton was a Scottish merchant and ship-captain who spent several decades in Southeast Asia. His two-volume work, chock-full of discussions of the region’s indigenous cultures, is rarely read today. Working with the edition of Hamilton’s work housed in the National Library of Singapore, this multimedia project will present excerpts from Hamilton’s work in the context of the scholarship of Southeast Asian scholars as well as other eighteenth-texts about Southeast Asia located in the same archive. In doing so, it experiments with a local or regional mode of mapping out an international history. https://www.liqipeh.com/teaching daily 0.75 2023-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/1643889831617-3RKLF6XKZMAGHR5P9XVD/unsplash-image-nss2eRzQwgw.jpg Teaching - Readings in the Medical Humanities In this course, we will join a rich, interdisciplinary conversation around medicine. Reading essays that explore biomedical ethics, medical anthropology and medical education, we will challenge our basic assumptions about illness, disability, and caregiving. We will also ask how empathy and storytelling can inform clinical practice, as well as how patients can advocate for themselves. These questions will thread throughout the semester. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/1679193422609-EZZWFU58CGCVRSE6OO2T/unsplash-image-SXXBKjcTd2w.jpg Teaching - Eighteenth Century Survey In this course, we will examine a selection of natural histories, poems, and plays that engage with Britain’s global traffic of goods and people. Throughout, we will pay special attention to how different writers harnessed the rhetoric of growth and decay to frame particular bodies and spaces and spaces as more effective for the expansion of empire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/1643986426281-YL8VBB0U62G719L2FBQD/unsplash-image-_YzGQvASeMk.jpg Teaching - Literary Texts, Critical Methods In this course, you will read works from different genres (poetry, drama, and prose fiction), drawn from the medieval period to the present day, learning the different interpretative techniques required by each. You will also be introduced to a variety of critical schools and approaches and some ways you might integrate them into your own critical writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/1693206189738-G2UKL6UI9YWSPKGV1VFM/image-asset.jpeg Teaching - The Poetry of Precarity In this course, you will attend to how precarity is expressed, produced, experienced, and resisted in poetry from the 17th to the 21st century. You will recognize how race, gender, and class shape experiences of precarity, understand the social structures that enable precarity from a variety of cultural perspectives, and experiment with understanding contemporary experiences of precarity from a historical point-of-view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6137913e6334e6364159cce8/1643986289766-K0QUNAKZ32224N0Y0QGU/unsplash-image-73pyV0JJOmE.jpg Teaching - It’s a Dog’s Life There are close to a billion dogs on Earth. Not all walk on leashes and play fetch. Some scavenge near garbage dumps, some are worshipped as gods, some are preyed upon, while others are trained to attack on sight. So, what makes a dog a dog, and why have they enjoyed such a privileged place in human culture and society? In this course, we explore how dogs navigate their worlds and express themselves, challenging human perspectives of personhood, kinship, and the wild.