March 2007 Dr Andrew Yerkes (Rice University) " Reductionism or Romanticism? Literary Darwinism and American Literature"

March 2007 Dr Eric Caldwell (University of Virginia) " The Eros of Renaissance Subjectivity"

February 2007 Dr Brian Bergen - Aurand (University of Maryland) " Awakening to the Possiblity of a Precarious Cinema"

March 2006 Dr Bede Scott (University of Cambridge) " Partitioning Cities: Communal Violence , Minorities, and Urban Space"

February 2006 Dr Angela Frattarola ( New York University ) " Sampling in the Modernist Novel: A Phonographic Effect"

February 2006 Ms Jini Kim Watson (Duke University) " The New Asian City: Postcolonial Modernity and the Aesthetics of Growth"

June 2005 Peter van de Kamp: "Joyce's Ulysses – a Bloomsday commentary. (held in Singapore Art Museum)

August 2005 Andy Williams: "A haughty disregard of costly things": femininity and consumer culture in Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son (1846-8).

August 2005 Francisco B. Benitez: "Comparative Literature, Figural Reading and Southeast Asian Literature: A Modest Proposal."