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YEAR
2025

department of english

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Shakespeare
Adaptations Studies
Early Modern Drama and Theatrical Culture

RESEARCH KEYWORDS
Shakespeare; Theatre; Adaptation;
Renaissance literature.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Kok, S. M. (2025). ‘The Pate of a Politician’: Anwar
dr. Ibrahim and the Political Appropriation of
kok su mei Shakespeare in the Press and on Social Media.
Shakespeare, 1-20.
smkok@um.edu.my Kok, S. M. (2021). Commensality, Sociability, and
The Roaring Girl. Studies in Philology, 119(2), 347-
EDUCATION 369.
Kok, S. M. (2020). The Significance of Baynard’s
PhD, (Shakespeare & Renaissance Literature)
Universiti Malaya (UM) Castle in London’s Lord Mayor’s Shows. Notes and
Queries.
MSt (English Language and Literature) Kok, S. M. (2018). Malaysian Moors: Ethnicity,
Oxford University, Oxford, UK Speech, and Identity in Jarum Halus (2008).
Shakespeare Bulletin, 36(2), 225-250.
MA (English Literature) Kok, S. M. (2017). “What’s Past is Prologue”:
Universiti Malaya (UM)
Postcolonialism, Globalisation, and the
BA (Hons) (English) Demystification of Shakespeare in Malaysia. SARE:
Universiti Malaya (UM) Southeast Asian Review of English, 54(1), 36-52.
Kok, S. M. (2013). “How Many Arts from Such a
Labour Flow”: Thomas Middleton and London’s New
UMEXPERT LINK River. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern
https://umexpert.um.edu.my/smkok.html Studies, 43(1), 173-190.

RESEARCHER ID SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
B-8802-2010 (Web of Science)
Recipient of The Sumitomo Foundation grant
(2018).
SCOPUS ID
Recipient of Certificate of Excellent Service
55060438900 (2021).

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