Sherice Ngaserin 黄靖雅

I'm currently a Lecturer in Philosophy at the National University of Singapore, where I am also a member of the Buddhist Studies Group and the GL Louis Religious Pluralism Research Cluster. Previously, I was a Lecturer in Philosophy at Yale-NUS College. My primary research interests lie in South Asian Buddhist philosophy, metaphysics of gender, and Ancient Greek philosophy.

From 2018-2023, I was the inaugural Yale-NUS Overseas Graduate Scholar and collaborator for a Yale-NUS Grant on Buddhist-Platonist Dialogues. Some of my current collaborations include a project on Wisdom and Global Traditions which brings together academics from Berlin and Singapore, and a project on Gender Metaphysics in Buddhist Doctrines and Narratives. 

I have also conducted several projects on innovative pedagogical methods. These include my collaboration with local game designers on a tabletop role-playing game provisionally titled Everyday Philosophers, which we playtested on my Philosophy of Games students over a period of four months in 2024; and a collaboration with Yale-NUS students on exploring an assignment format known as the 'unessay' and producing student-led zine volumes from 2023-2025. Our first zine volume, Anātman: A Buddhist Philosophy Zine, was published by the NUS Buddhist Studies Group in 2025. 

I completed my PhD at the University of Michigan in August 2023, where I defended my dissertation titled Towards a Buddhist Metaphysics of Gender. Before that, I received my BA (Hons.) in Philosophy and Global Antiquity (Sanskrit; Greek) from Yale-NUS College. 

I can be contacted at sherice@nus.edu.sg