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Melissa Tu joined the Singapore University of Technology and Design as a Lecturer in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Cluster. She earned her B.A. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University in 2015, graduating summa cum laude and receiving the Joseph R. Strayer Prize in Medieval Studies. In 2016, she obtained her M.Phil. in Medieval Renaissance Literature from the University of Cambridge. She then completed her Ph.D. in English Language and Literature at Yale University in 2023, where her research writing was awarded the Noah Webster Prize. While at Yale, she worked as a Digital Humanities consultant in the Yale DH Lab and published work in Digital Philology, particularly focusing on women's musical agency in the Middle Ages. Her research and teaching interests include medieval English literature, media theory, lyric studies, manuscript studies, sound and voice studies, virtuality studies, as well as music and musical performance. Outside of academia, she is an avid player of the piano and violin.
Singapore University of Technology and Design • Singapore
Lecturer in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Cluster.
This applies to PhD programs in Architecture and Sustainable Design (ASD), Engineering Product Development (EPD), Engineering Systems and Design (ESD), Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD), Science, Mathematics and Technology (SMT), and Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS).