Matthew Fam (PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative & World Literature, HGMS) received the Gendell/Shiner Family Fellowship in support of the research project, “Sinking Cities: Contemporary Southeast Asian Literature in the Apocalyptic Present.” It is a comparative study of post-millennium literary works set in coastal cities at risk of submergence, namely Jakarta, Singapore, and Bangkok. It foregrounds literary work as material evidence for tracking these anxieties and the role memory plays in anticipating what will be lost in the Climate Apocalypse, based on the processual aspects of ruination through sinking and flooding in the present. The project examines the infrastructural projects spearheaded to mitigate climate disasters, in particular, land reclamation, or coastal expansion via sand dumping, as a mitigative strategy to curb rising sea levels.