Rate My Professor Felix Cheong

Felix Cheong serves as an associate lecturer at Curtin University, with research interests in creative writing. He earned a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English Literature and Philosophy, with a minor in English Language, from the National University of Singapore in 1990, followed by a Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing from the University of Queensland in 2002, funded by a National Arts Council bursary. Cheong has held teaching positions at institutions such as the University of Newcastle, National University of Singapore, and LaSalle College of the Arts. At Curtin Singapore, he contributes to research activities, including articles in Research Pulse newsletters detailing his conference presentations.

Cheong's academic interests center on creative writing, particularly poetry comics, graphic novels, and multimodal storytelling. In 2023, he presented 'Poetry Comics as Artifact: The Visual Poetics of Sprawl' at the Singapore Literature Conference, an autoethnographic analysis of his graphic novel process, originally published in the International Journal of Comic Art (spring/summer 2022). He is the author of 25 books across genres. Notable poetry collections include Temptation and Other Poems (1998), I Watch the Stars Go Out (1999), Broken by the Rain (2003), Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems (2009), B-Sides and Backslides: 1986-2018 (2018), and The Mischief of Ordinary Things (2024). Fiction titles encompass The Call from Crying House (2006), Vanishing Point (2012), and the Singapore Siu Dai series (2014). Graphic novels feature Sprawl (2021), Eve and the Lost Ghost Family (2022), Sprawl: God’s Lonely Man (2022), and Goh Keng Swee: A Singaporean for All Seasons (2023). His librettos include At One Time (2020, third prize in New Opera Singapore Open Call), Panic Love (2021), and Inconvenience of Minor Parts (2021). Cheong received the National Arts Council Young Artist Award for Literature (2000) and won the poetry slam at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival (2004). His works have been widely anthologised, featured in Singapore 'O' and 'A' Level examinations, and he has appeared at international writers' festivals in Edinburgh, Austin, Sydney, Christchurch, and Hong Kong.