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Netty Haiffaq Binte Zaini Mattar

Lecturer

Contact Information

Telephone: 6516 1275
Email: nmattar@nus.edu.sg
Office: CELC #02-03 (10 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117511)

NETTY Mattar holds a PhD in English Literature from NUS, and has postgraduate diplomas in teaching and school-based counselling. Her research focuses on the intersections among literature (speculative fiction and film), science, and technoculture, with a particular interest in issues related to trauma, embodiment and posthumanism. She is also interested in decolonization and is currently exploring how decolonial approaches in educational contexts may transform learning.

Recent Courses Taught and/or Coordinated

  • RVX1004 Cultural Expressions of Science, Technology and Warfare
  • NG5001 Academic Communication for Graduate Researchers
  • UTW1001I Science and Popular Narratives

Selected Publications (since 2019)

  • Mattar, N. (2023). Zombies, Placelessness, and Transcultural Entanglement: Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad. In G. Champion, R. Douglas & S. Shapiro (Eds.). Decolonizing the Undead: Rethinking Zombies in World-Literature, Film, and Media (pp. 159–175). London,: Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Mattar, N., Wan Nur Madiha Ramlan, & Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf. (2022). Asia-Pacific Writers: Voices from the Centre to the Peripheries. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 16(1), 7–11. 
  • Mattar, N. (2022). Language and Betrayal: Posthuman Ethics in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 23(4), 9.
  • Mattar, N. (2021). Violent memory: Haruki Murakami’s Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, 10(2), 34-48. doi:10.22492/ijl.10.2.02.
  • Mattar, N. (2021). Diffractive spaces: An analysis of Malaysian cyberpunk. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2021.1975409

Selected Publications (since 2019)

  • Mattar, Netty (2022). “Speculative fiction, the aesthetics of discomfort, and Muslim futurity in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West.” Paper presented at Muslim Futurism: Definitions, Explorations and Future Directions, 21-23 January 2022. Online.
  • Mattar, Netty (2021). “New Materialism and Malaysian Cyberpunk.” Paper presented at MICOLLAC, the Malaysia International Conference on Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University Putra Malaysia, March 2021. Online.
  • Mattar, Netty (2021). “Ontological absence and speculative presence in Palestinian Science Fiction.” Paper presented at the American Comparative Literature Association annual conference, April 2021. Online.
  • Mattar, Netty (2020). “Digital Spaces, Desire, and Divided Selves: an analysis of selected Malaysian Cyberpunk fiction.” Paper presented at ICLL, the International Conference on Language and Literature 2020, International Islamic University of Malaysia, IIUM, Malaysia.
  • Mattar, Netty (2019), “There are no words: Moral Injury, Disability and Violence in Duncan Jones’ Mute.” Paper presented at ICSSH, the International Conference on Social Science and Humanities, National University of Singapore Society, NUSS Graduate Club, Singapore.
  • Mattar, Netty (2019). “Nomadic Subjectivity in the Selected Works of Abdourahman Waberi.” Paper presented at ACAH2019, The Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities, IAFOR, Japan.
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