About

Charles (展威）

I’m an academic from Singapore living in Nürnberg. This site is a little bit of a collage, part CV, part personal catharsis; about everything, and about nothing. Words build up in my head and I need an outlet to express them, a symptom perhaps, of a sensory-overloading world, and of my fervent, sometimes frustrating belief, in the liberating qualities of the written word.

Research
• 07/2025 – Travel Grant from the Bavarian American Academy (BAA) for the 13th International BAA Summer Academy, “North American Narratives of Crisis & Repair, Past & Present.” Goethe-Institut Montréal, Canada
• 06/2025 – Bursary from the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) for the Biennial Conference, “What Happens Now?” University of Stirling, United Kingdom
• 04/2025 – Funding from the German Research Foundation (DfG) for the Research Training Group, “The Sentimental in Literature, Culture, & Politics.” FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Selected Writing
• “Singaporean Triptych,” Wayf Journal (Issue 1: Be/Longing), Spring 2025
• “Winter of This Content,” FU Review (Issue 3: Roots/Routes), Winter 2017
• “A Brief History in the Life of Christopher McClunky,” this is how you walk on the moon: an anthology of anti-realist fiction, edited by Patricia Karunungan et al. (Ethos Books, Nov 2016)

Selected Editing
• The Trial (forthcoming), Autumn 2025
• C-Heads Magazine “A Love Affair” Volume #37, Photography & Lifestyle Magazine, 2021
• Lahar Berlin (Issue #5: Limbo), Literary Zine, Winter 2020
• FU Review (Issue 4: Noise), Literary Journal, Spring 2018

Readings/Performances
• Testimony for Trouble in Paradise Ep 5: “where I want to be” (by Floral Notes & Teplice) on Cashmere Radio, 06 Feb 2024
• “The Disaster Artist,” based off T.S Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” Berlin Spoken Word @ Das Gift, 25 Jan 2024
• “A Cover Letter,” Read Wedding @ Vagabund Brauerei, 11 Dec 2023
• “Meet Cute,” Read Wedding @ Vagabund Brauerei, 28 Aug 2023
• “Cucaracha” by Marco Merenda, Lahar Berlin’s Alles Muss Raus! @ Gelegenheiten, 1 Oct 2022
• Panel discussion on “Debt” moderated by FU Review’s Kelsie Renahan, Behind Closed Doors: open studio event @ HER, 6 Mar 2020
• “An Exercise in Colour,” FU Review Summer Reading @ John-F-Kennedy Institute, 27 Jun 2019