Contributing Editor

Jill J. Tan is a writer, artist, and researcher committed to collaborative practice and multimodal exploration through games, performance and poetics. As a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Yale University, she studies death and dying in Singapore, working with funeral professions and public-facing death literacy efforts. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Guernica, City and Society Journal, The Journal of Public Pedagogies, Palimpsest, Ghost Proposal; and the edited volumes Resistant Hybridities: Tibetan Narratives in Exile (Lexington), Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from Asia (Routledge) and Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Singapore (Duke UP). Her research is supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation; a National University of Singapore Development Grant; the Tan Kah Kee and Tan Ean Kiam Foundations; and a Social Science Research Council Graduate Research Fellowship. She was a 2022 resident at Dance Nucleus, and co-created featured programs for The Studios 2022 at The Esplanade, Singapore’s national performing arts center, and the 2020 Singapore Writers Festival. Tan’s multimedia hybrid poetics project Notes on the bicentennial of a f/l/ound/er/ing (2019) was awarded the 2022 Theron Rockwell Field Prize at Yale.