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Dr Christina Yin

Head of Department - Media and Communication, Senior Lecturer
PhD English (Nottingham), MA (Hons) (Melbourne), BA (magna cum laude) (Tufts University), CELTA (British Council)

Faculty of Business, Design and Arts

Office No:+60 82 260 769
Fax No:+60 82 260 813
Room No: G212
Email: [email protected]
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Biography

Christina is a writer, poet, voice-over artist, and lecturer. Now the Head of the Media and Communication Department, she brings vast experience from her work as news anchor, broadcast and print journalist, a radio program host and freelance deejay, assistant editor in publishing firms, interviewer and columnist, and communications officer for a conservation organization.

Joining Swinburne in 2003, Christina won the Swinburne Alumni Teaching Excellence Award in 2011, the Vice-Chancellor’s Sustainability Award in 2021, and the team Vice-Chancellor’s One Swinburne Award in 2022. Through the years, Christina’s leadership roles have included her work as Associate Dean of Foundation Studies and then Accreditation in the then Faculty of Language and Communication, as well as her work as co-founder and organizer of the annual Swinburne Inter-School Debating Championship since its inception in 2006.

As an active advisor for the Debaters’, Green, Theatre, the Swinbees Buzz Bulletin (Journalism Club) and the Hult Prize OnCampus Program, Christina has guided students in a variety of activities and events, helping them to develop leadership, teamwork, and organizational skills. Holding weekly online creative writing sessions with interested students and alumni throughout the year Christina co-organises annual debate and public speaking competitions, as well as conservation events, and poetry, creative writing, and script writing workshops.

Completing her PhD in English at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia in 2021, Christina’s thesis Creative Nonfiction: True Stories of People involved in Fifty Years of Conservation of the Orang-utan in Sarawak, Malaysia combined her two passions: conservation and creative nonfiction writing. Eleven of the 34 creative nonfiction pieces that formed her thesis’s creative artefact were published during the course of her studies.
In 2021, Christina’s short story A 22nd Century Au Pair was selected and published in The Best Asian Short Stories 2021 by Kitaab International, Singapore.


Research Interests

Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Narrative Inquiry, student motivation, e-learning, blogs and discussion forums.

Professional Memberships

  • Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP)
  • Malaysian English Language Teaching Association (MELTA)

Editorial Board Memberships

  • Member, Advisory Review Board, Journal of Communication, Language and Culture, Multimedia University

PhD/Master by Research Opportunities

Potential research higher degree candidates are welcome to enquire about postgraduate opportunities in the following areas/ projects:

1. Creative Nonfiction

2. Creative Writing

3. English Literature

Please contact Christina for more information on the above topics at [email protected]

Honours and Awards

  • Winner, Vice-Chancellor’s team One Swinburne Award, 2022
  • Winner, Vice-Chancellor’s Sustainability Award, 2021
  • Highly Commended, Vice-Chancellor’s Community Engagement Award, 2016
  • Winner, Swinburne Alumni Teaching Excellence Award, 2011

Publications

Books and Book Chapters

  • Yin, C 2025, ‘Helping to give a subject their voice: the crafted interview and environmental conservation workers’ in KM Lerner (ed), Insights on Literary Journalism, Routledge, New York.
  • Yin, C 2024, ‘Borneo Reborn’, in RG Chua, EX Vincent & A Ang (eds), Here was Once the Sea: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Ecowriting, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
  • Yin, C 2024, ‘On love, keepers and confiscated orang-utans’, in ASK Yeow & WL Tham (eds), A Malaysian Ecocriticism Reader, Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore, pp. 51-57, <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9466-3_3>.
  • Gumal, M, Yin, C, Yasin, Y, Rosedy, E, Tan, D and Ng, S 2022, ‘Natural environment’ in R Rasiah, K Salih & KC Cheong (eds), Malaysia’s leap into the future, Springer, pp. 307-335.
  • Yin, C 2021, ‘The 22nd century au pair’ in ME Vethamani (ed), The Best Asian Short Stories 2021, Kitaab International, Singapore.
  • Yin, C 2021, ‘The seventh day’ in J Prendergast, E Herbert-Goodall & J Webb (eds), The Incompleteness Book II: Writing Back and Thinking Forward, Recent Work Press, Australia, pp. 86-87.
  • Yin, C 2020, ‘Time zones’ in J Prendergast, S Strange & J Webb (eds), the incompleteness book, Recent Work Press, Australia, pp. 143-144.
  • Yin, C 2020, ‘Foreword’, in C Yin & M Gumal (eds), Wildlife and Environment Microfiction Challenge: Stories by young Malaysian writers (2017-2019), Wildlife Conservation Society, Kuching, pp. 1-2.
  • Gumal, M, Ng, S & Yin, C 2014 ‘The next 100: bridging for a new beginning’ Wildlife Conservation Society-Malaysia Program, Kuching, Sarawak.
  • Yin, C 1995, ‘Sustainability: a matter of choice’, WWF International, Gland, Switzerland.

Journal Papers

Conference Presentations and Proceedings

  • Wong, YH, Groves, M, Irwin, D, Krishna, S, Leong, JYY, Wong, P & Yin, C 2014, ‘Critical Thinking in Higher Education – Perspectives from Educators’, Panel Discussion at the 12th International Asia TEFL & 23rd MELTA International Conferences, jointly organized by the Asian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (Asia TEFL) and the Malaysia English Language Teachers’ Association (MELTA). 28 – 30 August.
  • Leong, H, Yin, C, & Lee, R 2014, ‘Documenting EFL language learners’ experiences in an intensive English program’, 3rd International Conference of Issues in Language Teaching and Learning Amongst Non-Native Speakers, Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia 18 – 19 February 2014.
  • Lim, R, Lee, M & Yin, C 2009, ‘Teacher Usage and Perceptions of Online Discussion Forums in Higher Education’, 2nd International Conference of Teaching and Learning (ICTL 2009), INTI University College, Malaysia.

Creative Nonfiction

Fiction

Poetry

  • Yin, C 2025, ‘On the seventh day’ and ‘The self-isolating ape and the virus’ in ME Vethamani (ed) Hibiscus and Plum Blossoms: Contemporary Malaysian and Taiwanese Poems, Maya Press.
  • Yin, C 2025, ‘To my father’, in ME Vethamani (ed) Contours of Him, poems, Hawakal, New Delhi.
  • Yin, C 2024, ‘Off Tiger Lane’ and ‘Semi-wild in Semenggoh, forever home’ in Malaysian Spaces and Places, ed. Edwin Malachi Vethamani, Maya Press, 2024.

Media

Performances on Social Media