Han Au Chua

Thesis Title: Asia, Europe, and the Bloomsbury Group: Towards a New Theory of Global Modernism

Supervisor: Professor Rebecca Beasley

Han Au's DPhil research is on the transnational histories of one of the twentieth century's most influential circles, the Bloomsbury Group. His project explores the forms and implications of the Bloomsbury set's weak but fundamental connections with Asia and Europe on twentieth-century global modernist aesthetics and politics.

Han Au's doctoral studies is supported by the HASS International PhD Scholarship (co-funded by Singapore's Ministry of Education and Nanyang Technological University). His work has also been funded by research grants from the British Association for Modernist Studies, Oxford's English Faculty, and Exeter College, Oxford. He has published and forthcoming work in Woolf Studies Annual, Prose Studies, Leonardo, and The Modernist Review. Han Au holds an MSt in English (Distinction) from the University of Oxford, and a BA in English Literature (Honours with Highest Distinction) from the National University of Singapore.