Carissa Foo teaches literature and writing at Yale-NUS College. She received her Ph.D. from Durham University, with a focus on women’s experiences of place in modernist writing. Since moving back to Singapore in 2017, she has shifted focus to local literary representations of desire. She has published on the workings of perception and complexities of friendship; she is also the author of If it Were Up to Mrs Dada (Epigram Books, 2019).