My Profile

Name: Ow Yeong Wai Kit

Programme: PGDE (Sec)

Intake: 2014

Email: ow_yeong_wai_kit@moe.edu.sg

Website: www.owyeongwaikit.com

Achievements:

John Oliver Hobbes Memorial Scholarship in Modern English Literature - Joint Winner, Best MA Dissertation (University College London, 2014)

National University of Singapore Society (NUSS) Medal for Outstanding Achievement (NUS, 2013)

Valedictorian, Class of 2013, University Scholars Programme (NUS, 2013)

Interests: Reading, writing, literature, religion, philosophy

Educational Goals: PhD and beyond – ‘learn to love, love to learn’

Most Memorable Learning Experience: When I was an exchange student at University College Dublin, I undertook a walking tour of the Irish capital by tracing the route taken by the character Leopold Bloom in the ‘Lestrygonians’ episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Following in Bloom’s footsteps was a fascinating exercise in imaginative reconstruction that not only offered me new insights about Joyce’s novel but also reaffirmed my belief in relating fiction to reality, texts to world.