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Marissa E Kwan Lin

Senior Lecturer

Contact Information

Telephone: 6601 7542
Email: elcmari@nus.edu.sg
Office: CELC #03-15 (10 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117511)

Marissa E is a Senior Lecturer at CELC and coordinates the NUS University Town Writing Programme. She holds a PhD in Language Studies from NUS.

Before joining CELC in 2018, Marissa worked on large-scale research projects in digital humanities with grants from the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and the Ministry of Education, Singapore (MOE).

Her research interests include systemic functional linguistics, critical multimodal discourse studies and conceptual metaphor theory. She has published and presented in the areas of social semiotics, multimodal discourse analysis, critical discourse studies, multiliteracies and the use of multimodality for education.

Marissa also serves as reviewer for the Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Language and Politics, Multimodality & Society, Social Semiotics, Pragmatics and Society, Frontiers in Communication: Visual Communication, 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature, The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies and ESP Today. She is also a book proposal reviewer for Routledge.

Recent Courses Taught and/or Coordinated

  • SP1541 Exploring Science Communication through Popular Science
  • UTW1001A Identities and Ideas in Modern Market-Driven Societies

Awards & Recognition

  • NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award 2024
  • Residential Colleges Teaching Excellence Award 2024
  • Residential Colleges Digital Education Award 2023
  • NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award 2022
  • Residential Colleges Teaching Excellence Award 2022
  • CELC Teaching Commendation Award 2020

NUS Service

  • Fellow, NUS Teaching Academy (NUSTA)
  • Sub-Committees: Generative AI, Interdisciplinarity

Grants and Research Support

  • CDTL Teaching Enhancement Grant (Research), Blended Learning 2.0: Best Practices in Designing a Community of Inquiry to Enhance Student Learning in Language and Communication Courses
  • CDTL Teaching Enhancement Grant (Learning Community), Enhancing Faculty Educational Video Production Proficiency to Elevate Teaching Practices and Boost Learning
  • CELC Education-Related Research Support Scheme, Investigating Student Difficulty as a Construct in the Ideas and Exposition Programme Context

Research Projects

  • Two Case Studies of GenAI Use in the Language and Communication Classroom
    Principal Investigator: Marissa E Kwan Lin
    Co-Investigator: Misty So-Sum Wai-Cook
  • Investigating Student Difficulty as a Construct in the Ideas and Exposition Programme Context
    Principal Investigator: Gene Segarra Navera
    Co-Investigator: Marissa E Kwan Lin
  • Blended Learning 2.0: Best Practices in Designing a Community of Inquiry to Enhance Student Learning in Language and Communication Courses
    Principal Investigator: Misty So-Sum Wai-Cook
    Co-Investigators: Brenda Yuen, Cao Feng, Doreen Tan Yun Ru, Jodie Luu, Marissa E Kwan Lin, Norhayati Bte Mohd Ismail, Lee Ming Cherk, and Tang Kum Khuan

Selected Publications (since 2019)

Books (Monograph)

  • E, Marissa K. L. (2022). Discourses of Neoliberalism in Singapore’s Higher Education Context: Individualist and Communitarian Perspectives. Routledge.

Books (Edited Volume)

  • Tan, Sabine & E, Marissa K. L. (Eds.). (2022). Discourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Approach. Routledge.

Journal Articles

  • E, Marissa K. L. & Tan, Sabine (2023). Semiotic representations of neoliberal dystopia in ‘Black Mirror’. Social Semiotics.
  • E, Marissa K. L. (2021). Using an Online Social Annotation Tool in a Content-Based Instruction (CBI) Classroom. International Journal of TESOL Studies, 3:2, 5-22.
  • E, Marissa K. L. (2020). Reflecting on the Peer Review Process: Features Characterising its Effectiveness. Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 10:2, 207-212.
  • E, Marissa K. L. (2020). Analyzing Neoliberal Discourse: An Integrated Dialectical-Relational Critical Discourse Analysis-Discourse Theory Framework Utilizing Conceptual Metaphor. Text & Talk, 40: 2, 147-170.
  • E, Marissa K. L. (2020). Discourse of Future-Orientedness as Neoliberal Ideal: Metaphor Scenarios as a Means of Representing Neoliberal Logics. Critical Discourse Studies, 18:5, 582-599.

Book Chapters

  • E, Marissa K. L. & Tan, Sabine (2022). Communication as ‘Graphic Medicine’: A multimodal social semiotic approach. In Sabine Tan & Marissa E K. L. (eds.), Discourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Approach, (pp. 42-66). Routledge.
  • Zhang, Yiqiong, Tan, Rongle, E, Marissa K. L. & Tan, Sabine (2022). Defamiliarise to engage the public: A multimodal study of a science video about COVID-19 on Chinese social media. In Sabine Tan & Marissa E K. L. (eds.), Discourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Approach, (pp. 160-177). Routledge.
  • E, Marissa K. L. & Tan, Sabine. (2022). Popular Science Fiction Television for the Language Educator: 'Black Mirror' as Potential Teaching Tool in the ICLHE Classroom. In M. Brooke (Ed.), Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education: Developing Academic Literacy, (pp. 125-142) Springer.

Book Review

  • E, Marissa K. L. (2023) [Book Review: Choreographies of Multilingualism: Writing and Language Ideology in Singapore, Tong King Lee, Oxford University Press, New York: USA.] Journal of Pragmatics, 212, 5-7.

Conference Proceedings

  • E, Marissa K. L. (2022). Building Reading Resilience for Academic Reading using Microsoft Sway Reading Guides. Higher Education on Campus Conference 2022 Conference Proceedings.

Magazine Articles

  • Teng, Jessie, Ismail, Norhayati, E, Marissa K. L., & Loo, Daron B. (2020). Emotional Affordances in Online 'Classrooms'. Modern English Teacher.

Blog Posts

Selected Presentations (since 2019)

  • E, Marissa K. L. and Tan, Sabine (2023). Environmental Conservation and Urban Re-development as Competing Stories of Space and Place in Singapore. Presented at the 11th International Conference on Multimodality, University College, London, United Kingdom. 27-29 September 2023.
  • E, Marissa K. L. (2022). Building Reading Resilience for Academic Reading using Microsoft Sway Reading Guides. Presented at the Higher Education on Campus Conference 2022. 7-8 December 2022.
  • E, Marissa K. L. & Tan, Sabine. (2021). Popular Science Fiction Television for the Language Educator: 'Black Mirror' as a Potential Teaching Tool in the CLIL Classroom. Presented at the World Congress of Applied Linguistics 2021 (AILA 2021), University of Groningen, Netherlands. August 2021.
  • E, Marissa K. L. (2019). Using a Social Annotation Tool in the Ideas and Exposition (IEM) Classroom. Presented at the Higher Education Campus Conference 2019, National University of Singapore, Singapore. November 2019.

Panel

  • NUS Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) Continuing Professional Development Programme: Blended Learning – Reflections on Implementation, 14 May 2024
    Invited panellist 

 

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