Ian Tan

Ian Tan is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He received his PhD in English from the University of Warwick, and is interested in modern and contemporary fiction and the relationship between modernist writing, poetics, literary theory and film. He is the author of Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger: Poetry as Appropriative Proximity (2022) and Understanding Barbara Kingsolver (forthcoming 2023), and...See more

Ian Tan is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He received his PhD in English from the University of Warwick, and is interested in modern and contemporary fiction and the relationship between modernist writing, poetics, literary theory and film. He is the author of Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger: Poetry as Appropriative Proximity (2022) and Understanding Barbara Kingsolver (forthcoming 2023), and the editor of Wallace Stevens in Theory (forthcoming 2023). His numerous essays on contemporary fiction and literary theory have appeared in venues such as English Literary History, Poetics Today, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Textual Practice and Style. See less