pensyarah universiti
pusat kajian bahasa & linguistik (pbl)
spillai@ukm.edu.my
Kluster Kepakaran/ Cluster of Expertise :
Transformasi Sosial dan Ekonomi,
Biografi/ Biography :
Shanthini Pillai (PhD) merupakan Profesor Madya di Fakulti Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). Minat penyelidikannya bertumpu terutamanya dalam kepelbagaian etnik, diaspora dan transnasionalisme dalam teks sastera dan budaya dengan rujukan khusus kepada diaspora Asia Selatan global. Tumpuan penyelidikan yang terkini adalah kesedaran budaya orang India dan Cina diaspora Katolik di Malaysia. Beliau telah mengetuai beberapa projek penyelidikan mengenai transnasionalisme dan identiti budaya dan juga telah mengambil bahagian dalam projek penyelidikan transnasional. Beliau telah memegang Fellowship Penyelidikan di Universiti Queensland, Australia, Asia Research Institute, Singapore dan Université
Catholique de l’Ouest, France.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7555-5698
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=26435995700
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shanthini_Pillai
Shanthini Pillai (PhD) is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, National University of Malaysia (UKM). Her research interests are anchored primarily in ethnic diversity, diaspora and transnationalism in literary and cultural texts with particular reference to the global South Asian diaspora. An emergent interest is in the cultural consciousness of Catholic diasporic Indians and Chinese in Malaysia. She has headed a number of research projects on transnationalism and cultural identity and has also participated in transnational research projects. She has held Research Fellowships at the University of Queensland, Australia, the Asia Research Institute, Singapore and Université Catholique de l’Ouest, France..
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7555-5698
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=26435995700
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shanthini_Pillai
shanthini pillai . (2025). malay rulers, french catholic missionaries, and the horizonality of religious accord and diplomacy across the centuries. - postdisciplinary studies in discourse . 109 - 131.
hao ming, shanthini pillai . (2025). foodscapes and the resurgence of sinologism : chinese dietary and medicinal practices in peter hessler’s works . - gema online journal of language studies. 176 - 192.
shanthini pillai . (2025). in pursuit of the malaysian catholic communal story across multiple sites of discursivities . - handbook of applied linguitics. 53 - 72.
zhongjie li, ravichandran vengadasamy, shanthini pillai. (2025). the construction of archetypal hero identity in selected asian american literary works. - theory and practice in language studies. 1846 - 1856.
zhongjie li, ravichandran vengadasamy, shanthini pillai. (2025). reimagining heroes in selected asian american literature through the lens of wuxing. - journal of language teaching and research. 822 - 831.
dhayapari perumal, shanthini pillai, melissa shamini periasamy. (2021). a case study on picture book application for children as semiotic technology in representing asian identities. - kritika kultura. 27-59.
ramesh loganathan, shanthini pillai, pramela krish. (2019). accented spatial representations in the internal exilic eelam-tamil film viduthalai moochu. - kritika kultura. 476-502.
shanthini pillai, melissa shamini periasamy. (2019). forum kritika on the shifting frontiers of literary studies in the twenty-first century. - kritika kultura. 377-387.
angeline wong wei wei, shanthini pillai, ong puay liu. (2018). the golden era of the malaysian film industry cross-cultural dialogue and negotiations of ethnicity in a budding nation. - kajian malaysia. .
ramesh loganathan, shanthini pillai, pramela krish. (2018). space-time formations in the south indian tamil popular film kannathil muthamittal. - international journal of asia pacific studies. .
zhongjie li, ravichandran vengadasamy, shanthini pillai. (2025). the construction of archetypal hero identity in selected asian american literary works. - theory and practice in language studies. 1846 - 1856.
zhongjie li, ravichandran vengadasamy, shanthini pillai. (2025). reimagining heroes in selected asian american literature through the lens of wuxing. - journal of language teaching and research. 822 - 831.
shanthini pillai, angeline wong wei wei, joanna tan tjin ai . (2025). changing covenants: sociolinguistic mobilities and the transgenerational discursivities of the convent in the malaysian cultural imaginary. - 3l: language, linguistics, literature® the southeast asian journal of english language studies . 416 - 429.
abeer m. oreiq, ravichandran vengadasamy, shanthini pillai. (2025). the flavours of migration: mother-daughter culinary experiences in preethi nair’s 100 shades of white. - theory and practice in language studies. 1453 - 1461.
muhammad yaseen, raihanah m m, shanthini pillai. (2025). decolonizing the margins: examining the influence of english literature on the development of regional identities in punjab and northeast india. - world journal of english language. 359 - 369.
shanthini pillai, angeline wong wei wei and mary ellen gidah. (2012). towards the global postgraduate: dynamic teaching-learning environments for optimum transfer of knowledge. - procedia social and behavioral sciences - ukm teaching and learning congress 2011. .
shanthini pillai . (2025). malay rulers, french catholic missionaries, and the horizonality of religious accord and diplomacy across the centuries. - postdisciplinary studies in discourse . 109 - 131.
shanthini pillai . (2025). in pursuit of the malaysian catholic communal story across multiple sites of discursivities . - handbook of applied linguitics. 53 - 72.
lilian lem atanga, melissa moyer , miguel pérez-milans , shanthini pillai, aileen o. salonga. (2024). discursive spaces of identity. - critical sociolinguistics. 277 - 301.
shanthini pillai. (2023). dodging and dismantling the frames of docility the south indian coolie of colonial malaya. - contemporary art in southeast asia. 164-169.
shanthini pillai. (2021). structural shifts and the graduate literary essay : examples for the twenty-first century classroom. - . 141-169.
shanthini pillai . (2025). menerangi warisan diaspora india yang berlapis dan sinkretis daripada secawan ingatan yang retak. - . .
ong puay liu, shanthini pillai a/p joseph sandra, ding choo ming, sivapalan a/l v. selvadurai, amla bt. mohd. salleh, shazlin binti amir hamzah, mashitah mohd radzi, dr. callistus fernandez, et. al.. (2015). kesepaduan sosial melalui pembentukan konsep 1r dalam pendidikan malaysia. - . .
shamsul amri bin baharuddin, ahmad rizal bin mohd yusof, nazri bin muslim, chong sheau tsuey, ermy azziaty binti rozali, denise koh choon lian, nurhafilah binti musa, sharipah nor puteh, et. al.. (2015). kesepaduan sosial negara. - . .
shanthini pillai. (2009). pembelajaran dan penghayatan pertembungan budaya melalui penyerapan mata pelajaran kesusasteraan bahasa inggeris dalam kurikulum bersepadu sekolah menengah (kbsm). - diges pendidik. 9(2):29-37.
shanthini pillai . (2025). menerangi warisan diaspora india yang berlapis dan sinkretis daripada secawan ingatan yang retak. - . .
shanthini pillai. (2024). . - series iii, episode 13, shantini pillai and angeline wong weo wei on tamil and chinese catholic diaspora communities in.... 1.
shanthini pillai . (2024). recalibrating pedagogical and theoretical ensembles for 21st century literary studies in asia. - 12th literary studies conference (lsc). .
shanthini pillai a/p joseph sandra;suziana bt. mat saad;ng lay shi. (2023). reassessing the colonial divide and rule impact on inter-ethnic relations in nineteenth century malaya . - . .
anita binti harris satkunananthan;shanthini pillai a/p joseph sandra;zanisah a/p man;yew wong chin. (2022). climate-based literary theory and analytical model for indigenous malaysian communities impacted by climate change and climate migration. - . .
CULTURE :ARTS AND APPLIED ARTS
diaspora and transnationalism in literary and cultural texts with particular reference to the global South Asian diaspora
Pengalaman / Experience : 24 tahun/years(s)
LITERATURE :ARTS AND APPLIED ARTS
Diaspora and Transnationalism
Pengalaman / Experience : 24 tahun/years(s)