Rate My Professor Eng-Beng Lim

Eng-Beng Lim is the Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and serves as Chair of the Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College. He received his B.A. from the National University of Singapore and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Lim's research centers on performance and cultural studies, Asian/American studies, postcolonial/diaspora studies, and queer/transnational studies. His acclaimed monograph, Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias (New York University Press, 2014), provides a transnational study of Asian performance shaped by the homoerotics of orientalism, focusing on the relationship between the white man and the native boy. The book received the CLAGS Award from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center and the Book Award in Cultural Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies.

Professor Lim is currently developing two book projects, one on megastructure and performance and another on the visual cultures of "ethnocuties." Key publications include "Asian Megastructure and Queer Futurity" (2016), "Performing the Global University" (Social Text, 2009), "Glocalqueering in New Asia: The Politics of Performing Gay in Singapore" (Theatre Journal, 2005), and "The Performance and Pedagogy of Neoliberal Affect" (Theatre Survey, 2010). He serves on the Social Text editorial collective, the MLA division for Drama and Performance, and the International Standing Review Board of Hong Kong's Research Grants Council. At Dartmouth, Lim is involved in the steering committees of the Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth (GRID) and the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, and he is the founding director of the Consortium of Studies in Race, Migration, and Sexuality. In 2024-25, he received the Jonathan Crewe Fellowship for Associate Professors from the Leslie Center for the Humanities. Lim teaches courses such as WGST 65.07 Queer Popular Culture.