I enjoy playing with words and the written language as creative material. However, certain ‘standard’ approaches can present difficulties. Diagnosed dyslexic only after my PhD, traditional academic platforms and approaches to writing and reading present profound barriers. Still, I have published 13 peer-reviewed journal articles, 9 book chapters and 8 books/edited volumes, often applying strategies to self-reflexively challenge logocentric, didactic, linear tropes claiming objectivity and ‘truth’ in academia. I have also published 40 op-eds, reviews, arts catalogue entries and more on professional and popular platforms, to widen the reach of arts and humanities thought leadership. The speed and proces of publication and length of writing are also more disability-friendly.  NOTE: In Art and Design, non-written publications – eg curatorial intervention, artefact creation – are of the same value as written ones, while their public impact are often more significant than that of traditional outputs. For what others have written/said about me (with me and/or behind my back), click here. For the rest of my CV, click here.  *Indicates significant publications; T indicates those related to teaching. APA formatting is used.  

13 PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
10 BOOK CHAPTERS 
  • *Tan, K.S. (invited, in progress). Looking for Love: A Monster-Mapping’. In J. Southern et al. (Eds) Art, Mobilities and Uncertainty. Bloomsbury.
  • Tan, K.S. (invited, in progress). Looking for Love: An Inter(-Sectional Dys-)Course. In C.-J. Kather et al. (Eds) Spectrums of Sexuality. Publisher TBA.
  • T: Tan, K. S. (in press, c2026). Ill-disciplined: Creative, neurodivergent intervention and leadership in higher education – A manifesto. In J. Taylor (Ed.), Beyond borders? Articulations, provocations & performativities in arts & humanities research. Routledge.
  • Tan, K. S. (in press, c2026). Hyperactivity. In P. Adey, K. Barry, & W. Q. Lin (Eds.), The encyclopedia of mobilities (in progress). Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Tan, K. S. (in press, c2026). Running artfully. In P. Adey, K. Barry, & W. Q. Lin (Eds.), The encyclopedia of mobilities (in progress). Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • *El Madawi, S, Tan, KS and Trotman N. (c2026). ‘Towards a Decolonised “Creative Neurodiversity Studies”: Post-normative futures through neurodiasporic subjectivities and (in)formal education’. In R.Dhital & KS Tan (eds), A Handbook of Neurodiversity and Creative Research, Routledge. https://kaisyngtan.com/artful/creative-neurodiversity-studies-neurodiasporic-subjectivities/
  • *Tan, K. S. (2022). An exploration of running as metaphor, methodology, material through the RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale #r3fest 2016. In Interrelationships between sport and the arts (Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Interrelationships-Between-Sport-and-the-Arts/Long-Sandle/p/book/9781032350387
  • Tan, K. S. (2020). Run riot (pp. 303-314). In M. Büscher et al. (Eds.), Handbook on methods for mobilities research. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/handbook-of-research-methods-and-applications-for-mobilities-9781788115452.html
  • Tan, K. S. (2019). Running (in) your city (pp. 163–86). In M. Aguiar, C. Crane, & N. Menozzi (Eds.), Mobilities, literature, culture (pp. 163–186). Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030270711 ISBN 978-3-030-27072-8 
  • Tan, K. S. (2017). Hand-in-hand. In G. Drevon et al. (Eds.), Chronotopies: Lecture et écriture des mondes en mouvement (pp. 59–69). Elya Éditions. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chronotopies-Lecture-%C3%A9criture-mondes-mouvement/dp/B075Z6SB2G ISBN:9791091336109
9 BOOKS/EDITED VOLUMES
THESIS
  • Tan, K. S. (2014). The physical and poetic processes of running: A practice-related fine art discourse about a playful way to transform your world today (Doctoral dissertation, University College London). UCL Discovery. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1420270/ Downloaded 4427 times since publication on UCL site.
  • Tan, K.S. (2005). ISLANDHOPPING 2002-2005 Japan. (130-page MA thesis in the Japanese language, Musashino Art University).
40 OP-EDS, REVIEWS & MORE ON PROFESSIONAL/POPULAR PLATFORMS