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Kristina Marie Tom is a senior lecturer at NTU’s Language and Communication Centre and coordinates leadership communication training for NTU's Student Leadership Development Programme. She holds a BA and MA in English from Stanford University, and has a particular passion for teaching public speaking and writing. A former book critic and journalist for The Straits Times, Kristina has published poetry, fiction and criticism. She is a recipient of an NAC Creation Grant for her novel Turtle Mountain, an EdeX Grant for research on student-faculty partnership in curriculum design, and an MOE AcRF Tier 1 grant on the linguistic landscapes of Singapore's Chinatown. She also serves as Faculty-in-Residence at Tamarind Hall.
Student-faculty partnership in curriculum design
Creative writing
Literary criticism
Linguistic landscapes & visual communication
Creative writing
Literary criticism
Linguistic landscapes & visual communication
- What’s in a sign?: Typopgraphy in repurposed traditional architecture and its role in Singapore’s multicultural linguistic landscape