Emily Soon is a Lecturer of English Literature at the Singapore Management University. Prior to joining SMU, she served as a Research Fellow at the National Museum of Singapore. Her research focuses on cross-cultural literary exchange between Asia and Europe in the premodern and modern eras, with a particular emphasis on Southeast Asia. Her research has been published in England’s Asian Renaissance, Modern Philology, and Shakespeare Survey. Her doctoral dissertation, which she completed at King's College London, explored how the East Indies inspired early modern English writers; she is currently developing this thesis into a monograph on Southeast Asia and early modern religious exchange.