Dr Marissa E is Lecturer at CELC and coordinates the NUS University Town Writing Programme. She holds a PhD in Language Studies from NUS.

Before joining CELC in 2018, Marissa worked on large-scale research projects in digital humanities with grants from the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and the Ministry of Education, Singapore (MOE).

Her research interests include systemic functional linguistics, critical multimodal discourse studies and conceptual metaphor theory. She has published and presented in the areas of social semiotics, multimodal discourse analysis, critical discourse studies, multiliteracies and the use of multimodality for education.

Marissa also serves as reviewer for 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature, The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies and Frontiers in Communication.

Recent Modules Taught and/or Coordinated

• SP1541 Exploring Science Communication through Popular Science
• UTW1001A Identities and Ideas in Modern Market-Driven Societies

Awards & Recognition

• Residential Colleges Teaching Excellence Award 2020/2021
• CELC Teaching Commendation Award 2019/2020

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Selected Publications (since 2019)

• E, Marissa K. L. & Tan, Sabine. (Forthcoming). Popular Science Fiction Television for the Language Educator: 'Black Mirror' as Potential Teaching Tool in the ICLHE Classroom. In M. Brooke (ed.), Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education: Developing Academic Literacy. Springer.
• Tan, Sabine & E, Marissa K. L. (In progress). Discourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Approach. Routledge.
• E, Marissa K. L. (2021). Using an Online Social Annotation Tool in a Content-Based Instruction (CBI) Classroom. International Journal of TESOL Studies, 3:2, 5-22.
• Teng, Jessie, Ismail, Norhayati, E, Marissa K. L., & Loo, Daron B. (2020). Emotional Affordances in Online 'Classrooms'. Modern English Teacher. .
• E, Marissa K. L. (2020). Reflecting on the Peer Review Process: Features Characterising its Effectiveness. Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 10:2, 207-212.
• E, Marissa K. L. (2020). Analyzing Neoliberal Discourse: An Integrated Dialectical-Relational Critical Discourse Analysis-Discourse Theory Framework Utilizing Conceptual Metaphor. Text & Talk, 40: 2, 147-170.
• E, Marissa K. L. (2020). Discourse of Future-Orientedness as Neoliberal Ideal: Metaphor Scenarios as a Means of Representing Neoliberal Logics. Critical Discourse Studies, 18:5, 582-599.

Selected Presentations (since 2019)

• E, Marissa K. L. & Tan, Sabine. (2021). 'Popular Science Fiction Television for the Language Educator: 'Black Mirror' as a Potential Teaching Tool in the CLIL Classroom'. Presented at the World Congress of Applied Linguistics 2021 (AILA 2021), University of Groningen, Netherlands. August 2021.
• E, Marissa K. L. (2019). 'Using a Social Annotation Tool in the Ideas and Exposition (IEM) Classroom'. Presented at the Higher Education Campus Conference 2019, National University of Singapore, Singapore. November 2019.