Eli Park SORENSEN
- BA(University of Southern Denmark, SDU), MA, PhD (University College London, UCL)
- Postgraduate Coordinator (English Literary Studies)
Telephone
3943 8550
Email
eliparks@cuhk.edu.hk
Office
Fung King Hey 315
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Research Interests
Comparative literature, postcolonialism, twentieth-century fiction, science fiction, adoption studies, crime fiction, censorship, philosophy and literature, literary theory
Publications
Books / Monographs Authored
| 2021 | Postcolonial Realism and the Concept of the Political. Routledge, 2021 |
| 2021 | Science Fiction Film: Predicting the Impossible in the Age of Neoliberalism. Edinburgh University Press, 2021 |
| 2010 | Postcolonial Studies and the Literary: Theory, Interpretation and the Novel. Palgrave Macmillan, 224pp (hbk), 2010 [ISBN: 978-0230252622] |
Edited Volumes
| 2020 | East-West Dialogues on the Humanities: The Transferability of Concepts in the Humanities. Edited collection with Christoph Bode, Michael O’Sullivan and Lukas Schepp. Peter Lang, 2020. |
Chapters in Books
| 2022 | ‘Postcolonial Realism and Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters’. Realism: Aesthetics, Experiments, Politics (edited by Jens Elze), Bloomsbury, 2022: pp. 228-247. |
| 2020 | ‘Literary Realism as a Political Concept’. East-West Dialogues on the Humanities: The Transferability of Concepts in the Humanities. Edited collection with Christoph Bode, Michael O’Sullivan and Lukas Schepp. Peter Lang, 2020. 255-273. |
| 2020 | ‘Introduction: East-West Dialogues on the Humanities’ (with M. O’Sullivan). East-West Dialogues on the Humanities: The Transferability of Concepts in the Humanities. Edited collection with Christoph Bode, Michael O’Sullivan and Lukas Schepp. Peter Lang, 2020. 7-15. |
| 2015 | ‘Postcolonial Realism in the Novels of Rohinton Mistry’. The History of the Indian Novel in English (edited by Ulka Anjaria), Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015. 193-206. |
| 2011 | ‘Heroism, Fate, and Justice in Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim’. Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature vol.1, (edited by Jennifer McClinton-Temple), New York: Facts on File, 2011: pp. 301-304 [ISBN: 978-08-160-7161-6]. |
| 2010 | ‘Korean Adoption Literature and the Anxiety of Returning’. SISKAS 2010 Proceedings, Summer 2010: pp. 147-155 [ISBN: 098-165-3715]. |
| 2008 | ‘Formal Dissatisfactions: The Postcolonial Novel as a Literary Genre’. Sub/versions: Cultural Status, Genre and Critique (edited by Pauline MacPherson, Christopher Murray, Gordon Spark and Kevin Corstorphine), Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008: pp. 112-123 [ISBN: 978-18-471-8372-9]. |
| 2007 | ‘Between Autobiography and Fiction: Narrating the Self in Gabriel García Márquez's Vivir para contarla’. Stories and Portraits of the Self (edited by Helena Carvalhão Buescu & João Ferreira Duarte), Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2007: pp. 189-200 [ISBN: 978-90-420-2328-4]. |
Articles in Journals
| 2023 | ‘Brothers Home and the Production of Vanished Lives’. Genealogy (Special Issue: ‘Transnational and/or Transracial Adoption and Life Narratives’) 7:4, 2023: 1-15. |
| 2023 | ‘Crime Fiction and the Idea of the Normal Space: The Pledge and The Element of Crime’. Humanities Bulletin 6:1, 2023: 138-151. |
| 2021 | ‘Between the Private and the Public Spheres: The Politics of Realism in Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey.’ Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature Canadienne 45:1, 2021: 182-203. |
| 2021 | ‘Olafur Eliasson’s The Weather Project and the Birth of the Political’ (with M. Lee). Humanities Bulletin 4:1, 2021: 117-132. |
| 2019 | ‘"My shadow has gone mad": Irony and Self-Consciousness in H.C. Andersen's The Shadow.’ Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures 3:2, 2019: 65-77. |
| 2019 | ‘The Future as a Number’ (with D. Huddart). Situations 12:1, 2019: 87-106. |
| 2017 | ‘The Nation at War with Itself: Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance’. JELL: The Journal of English Language & Literature 63:1, 2017: 95-114. |
| 2017 | ‘Emergency, Oikodicy, and the Return of the Real’. SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English 54:1, 2017: 1-17. |
| 2016 | ‘Between Friends and Enemies: Ridley Scott's Alien’. Trans-Humanities: Ewha Institute for the Humanities 9:3, 2016: 51-78. |
| 2016 | ‘Double Articulation and the Dynamics of Deception: H.C. Andersen’s The Emperor’s New Clothes’ (with M. Lee). Chosun Institute Journal 51, 2016: 467-492. |
| 2016 | ‘Ironic Distance and Credulity in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet’ (with M. Lee). Kangwon Studies in Humanities 47, 2016: 135-159. |
| 2015 | ‘Blade Runner and the Right to Life’. Trans-Humanities: Ewha Institute for the Humanities 8:3, 2015: 111-129. |
| 2015 | ‘Narration, Description and Repetition in Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters’. Kyungnam Institute Journal 38, 2015: 31-51. |
| 2015 | ‘Realism, Irony, and Temporality in Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey’. Chungnam Institute Journal 100, 2015: 5-36. |
| 2014 | ‘“Everything has been written”: Literary Space and Borges’ “The Library of Babel”’. Chungnam Institute Journal 96, 2014: 156-179. |
| 2014 | ‘Postcolonial Literary History and the Concealed Totality of Life’. Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Thought 37:2, 2014: 235-253. |
| 2014 | ‘Korean Adoption Literature and the Politics of Representation’. Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and The History of Ideas 12:1, 2014: 155-179. |
| 2014 | ‘The Globalization of Clichés and the Search for Pure Language: Lost in Translation’ (with K.S. Rasmussen). Kangwon Studies in Humanities 41, 2014: 509-528. |
| 2013 | ‘Postcolonialism and the Experience of Belatednes’. MBALL: The Association of Modern British and American Language and Literature 31:1, 2013: 153-173. |
| 2013 | ‘A Pathological Core of Authenticity: Rereading the Case of Binjamin Wilkomirski's Bruchstücke’. Forum for Modern Language Studies 49:1, 2013: 79-98. |
| 2013 | ‘‘Like a melancholy burglar’: on Larry Sultan’s Pictures from Home and the Myth of the Family’ (with M. Lee). Kyungsung University Institute Journal 31, 2013: 295-317. |
| 2012 | ‘The Obscure Object of Desire: David Lynch’s The Elephant Man’. MBALL: The Association of Modern British and American Language and Literature 30:2, 2012: 253-275 |
| 2012 | ‘Melancholy Memories and Literary Language’. AELLK: The Association of English Literature and Language 38:2, 2012: 129-149. |
| 2012 | ‘History, Memory, and Post-migrant Experience’. Yeungnam Journal of the Humanities 64, 2012: 189-212. |
| 2012 | ‘Fragments of a Vessel: Aspects of Walter Benjamin’s Translation Theory’. Chungnam Institute Journal 87, 2012: 81-105. |
| 2012 | ‘Utopian Beginnings: Reflections on Place, Community, and Being’. Journal of Korean Adoption Studies 3, 2012: 79-91. |
| 2012 | ‘Post-Migrant Subjectivity and Secondary Loss: Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club.’. JELLA: Jungang English Language and Literature Association of Korea 54:4, 2012: 563-577. |
| 2012 | ‘Ghostly Repetitions: Between Interpretive Violence and Hysteria’. Yeungnam Journal of the Humanities 66, 2012: 79-106. |
| 2012 | ‘Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman and Time’. Modern Drama 55:3, 2012: 287-303. |
| 2012 | ‘Realism and Reification in the Postcolonial World’. Kangwon Studies in Humanities 35, 2012: 637-652. |
| 2012 | ‘Cultural Hybridity, Theory, and Literary Realism’. Kyungsung University Institute Journal 30, 2012: 105-129. |
| 2011 | ‘Desire and Censorship in Astrid Trotzig’s Blod är tjockare än vatten’. COWOL: Comparative World Literature Association 37, 2011: 543-567. |
| 2011 | ‘Revisiting Macondo: Totality and Fragmentation in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude’. COWOL: Comparative World Literature Association 35, 2011: 361-385. |
| 2011 | ‘Minor Subjects/Minor Literature: Maja Lee Langvad’s Find Holger Danske and the Search for Danishness’ (with K.S. Rasmussen). KCLA: The Korea Comparative Literature Association 54, 2011: 225-249. |
| 2011 | ‘The Apocalyptic Imagination: Nature, Enlightenment and the Genre of Disaster Films’ (with K.S. Rasmussen). English21: The 21st Century of English Language and Literature 24:2, 2011: 247-274. |
| 2011 | ‘The Temporality of the Late Arrival: Fanon, Trenka, and the Question of Returning’ (with K.S. Rasmussen). JELLA: Jungang English & Literature Association of Korea 53:2, 2011: 301-324. |
| 2011 | ‘The Psychiatrist and the Revolutionary: Frantz Fanon’s Critique of Colonial Discourse’ (with K.S. Rasmussen). Cross-Cultural Studies 24, 2011: 5-30. |
| 2011 | ‘The (Infinite Postponement of the) End of History: Kojève, Fukuyama and Blade Runner’ (with K.S. Rasmussen). MBALL: The Association of Modern British and American Language and Literature 29:4, 2011: 337-362. |
| 2010 | ‘Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken’. Explicator 68:1, 2010: 26-28 |
| 2010 | ‘Naturalism and Temporality in Ousmane Sembène's Xala’. Research in African Literatures 41:2, 2010: pp.222-43. |
| 2009 | ‘Imperial Nostalgia and the Detective Genre: Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans’. English & American Cultural Studies 9:1, 2009: 323-348. |
| 2009 | ‘The Art of Theft: Richard Prince’s Cowboys (1980-2002)’. Journal of American Studies 41:1, 2009: pp.213-247. |
| 2009 | ‘Can the Literary Speak? Institutionalization and Radicalism in Contemporary Postcolonial Criticism’. JELLA: Jungang English Language and Literature Association of Korea 51:2, 2009: pp.235-269. |
| 2009 | ‘Novel Desires: Authority and Worldliness in Edward Said’s Literary Criticism’. MESK: The Modern English Society of Korea 53:3, 2009: pp.275-305. |
| 2009 | ‘Novelistic Interpretation: The Travelling Theory of Georg Lukács's Theory of the Novel’. JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory, 39:1 (Winter), 2009: pp.57-86. |
| 2008 | ‘The Crisis of Imagination: Postcolonial Studies and Migrant Fiction’. Cross-Cultural Studies 12:2, 2008: pp.17-41. |
| 2008 | ‘Troubled Legacies: Migrant Fiction and the Internal Limit of Englishness’. Studies in Modern Fiction 15:3, 2008: pp.203-237. |
| 2008 | ‘Excess and Design in Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance’. NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, 41:2-3 (Spring/Summer), 2008: pp. 342-362. |
| 2007 | ‘Arcades of Foreignness: J.M. Coetzee’s Foe’. Peer English: The Journal of New Critical Thinking, issue 2, 2007: pp. 45-62. |
| 2007 | 'Postcolonial Melancholia’. Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Thought, 30:2 (July), 2007: pp. 65-81. |
Invited Papers
| 2022 | ‘Transnational Adoption Literature: Autobiography, Fiction, and Genre’ (The Department of English, City University Hong Kong, 5 September 2022). |
| 2022 | ‘Crime Fiction and the Idea of the Normal Space: The Pledge and The Element of Crime’ (The Department of English, Lingnan University, 7 April 2022). |
| 2021 | ‘Postcolonial Literature in a South-Asian/South-East Asian Context’ (The English Department, Jeonbuk National University, 17-26 August 2021). |
| 2021 | ‘“We Alone Represent the People”: Decolonization and the Specifically Political’ (The English Society, AAHKUSU, The University of Hong Kong, 30 March 2021). |
| 2021 | ‘Korean Adoption Literature’ [Zoom] (The National Humanities Centre, North Carolina, 14 January 2021). |
| 2020 | ‘Cyberpunk’ (Session 5 of ‘New Suns: The Online Writing Course on Science Fiction in the Classroom’, 7 November 2020). |
| 2020 | ‘Introduction to ENGE2120/UGED2185: Literature and Human Rights’ (English CUHK Youtube Channel, 26 June 2020) (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2ktaptAfNc) |
| 2020 | ‘Introduction to ENGE2110/UGED2195: Crime Fiction’ (English CUHK Youtube Channel, 19 June 2020) (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDlbxiiUUWY ) |
| 2019 | ‘Scandinavian Legends’ (Week 10 of ‘ENGE2190: Gods Behaving Badly’, 8 November 2019). |
| 2019 | ‘Future Realism and the Exception: Carl Schmitt and Hollywood Sci-fi Movies’ (The Japanese Association for American Studies, Hosei University, Tokyo, 1-2 June, 2019). |
| 2019 | ‘Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (Week 13 of ‘ENGE2370: From Romanticism to Modernism’, 26 March 2019). |
| 2019 | ‘Crime Fiction’ (’English Evening’, New Asia College, CUHK, 9 April 2019). |
| 2019 | ‘Sci Fi as Social Critique’ (‘The Many Worlds of Science Fiction’, The International Writers Workshop, Hong Kong, 11-16 March 2019). |
| 2018 | ‘The Future as a Number: Temporal Trajectories of Hong Kong’ [with Prof. David Huddart] (‘2018 Situations International Conference: The Culture Industries in Asia: Into the Digital Age’, University of Hong Kong, 30 November-1 December 2018). |
| 2018 | ‘Monopolizing the Future: Carl Schmitt’s Exception and Sci-fi Movies’ (‘Lecture Series’, Society of Fellows, University of Hong Kong, 5 November 2018). |
| 2018 | ‘Foucault’s ‘Race War’ and Literary Realism’ (‘Narrative and Cross-Cultural Humanities’, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2-5 May 2018). |
| 2017 | ‘The Date in the Hong Kong Imaginaire’ [with Prof. Grant Hamilton] (‘Creative Cultures of Anglophone Southeast and East Asia: Mapping Literary Networks’, City University of Hong Kong, 12 December 2017). |
| 2017 | ‘Albert Camus’ The Stranger’ (Week 8 of ‘ENGE5720: Comparative Approaches in Literary Studies, 30 October 2017). |
| 2017 | ‘Realism and Capital in the Novels of Rohinton Mistry’ (The Department of English, The Education University of Hong Kong, 25 October 2017). |
| 2017 | ‘Four-day Graduate Seminar: Korean Adoption Literature’ (Department of English, Yonsei University, 3-6 January 2017). |
| 2016 | ‘The Importance of Writing & Perspectives on Teaching in a Global Context’ (The English Department, Jeonbuk National University, 14-15 December 2016). |
| 2016 | ‘Narrativizing Economic Effects in the Novels of Rohinton Mistry’ (ELLAK, ‘The Interface of Literature and Economy’, Daejeon, Korea, 13-15 December 2016). |
| 2016 | ‘Transnational Adoption Literature: History, Genre, Representation’ (The Department of English, Hong Kong University, 10 November 2016). |
Others
| 2019 | ‘Review of Gahil Tihanov’s The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond.’ Hong Kong Review of Books, October 2019 [1750 words] |
| 2018 | Body Book: Dictionary of Body, Desire & Culture. English section edited and written by E.P. Sorensen and M. Lee. Seoul: Propaganda Books, 267pp, 2018 [ISBN: 978-89-98143-59-6]. |
| 2017 | ‘Body Dictionary’ (Exhibition Brochure, Typojanchi 2017: The 5th International Typography Biennale, 31 March, 2017) [20,000 words] |
| 2017 | ‘Kang Young Kil’s Limbo’ (Exhibition brochure, Tenri Culture Institute, New York City, 28 February-18 March, 2017) [1150 words] |
| 2015 | ‘Your Conscience’ (Exhibition Brochure, Typojanchi 2015: The 4th International Typography Biennale, Seoul Station, 11 November-27 December, 2015) [2600 words] |
| 2013 | ‘Review of Intercountry Adoption: Policies, Practices, and Outcomes edited by Judith L. Gibbons and Karen Smith Rotabi’. International Journal of Social Welfare 22:4, 2013: pp. 440-441 |
| 2013 | ‘Acedia and the Fear of an Overpopulated Planet’, Korea Herald 24 September, 2013 [1160 words] |
| 2013 | ‘Hesitating and Acting: Obama’s Syrian Dilemma’, Korea Herald 09 September, 2013 [1050 words] |
| 2013 | ‘Alienation and Emancipation of the Self’, Korea Herald 23 August, 2013 [1070 words] |
| 2013 | ‘How the Modern World Undermines Secrecy Efforts’, Korea Herald 12 August, 2013 [970 words] |
| 2013 | ‘Reading Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four Today’, Korea Herald 1 July, 2013 [1150 words] |
| 2013 | ‘Fraudulent Memoirs and the Autobiographical Pact’, Korea Herald 17 June, 2013 [1150 words] |
| 2013 | ‘The Belatedness of The Great Gatsby’, Korea Herald 3 June, 2013 [1350 words] |
| 2013 | ‘Preemptive Logic and Science Fiction’, Korea Herald 21 May, 2013 [1250 words] |
| 2013 | ‘On Staying Awake and Waking Up Properly’, Korea Herald 6 May, 2013 [1050 words] |
| 2013 | ‘Complex Art of Interpreting Literature’, Korea Herald 26 April, 2013 [1200 words] |
| 2012 | ‘The Gigantic, Confusing Library of the Universe’, Korea Herald 24 December, 2012 [1100 words] |
| 2012 | ‘The Arrival of a Train and Its Many Meanings’, Korea Herald 10 December, 2012 [1000 words] |
| 2012 | ‘The Experience of Continuity in an Episodic Age’, Korea Herald 26 November, 2012 [1000 words] |
| 2012 | ‘Late Works Reveal Maturing of Artistic Visions’, Korea Herald 12 November, 2012 [1000 words] |
| 2012 | ‘The Comfort of Bedford Falls’ Alternative Scenarios’, Korea Herald 29 October, 2012 [1000 words] |
| 2012 | ‘iFantasy: Are Tech Giants Monopolizing the Future?’ (with M. Lee). The Humanist: A Magazine of Critical Inquiry and Social Concern, November/December 2012 [1600 words] |
| 2012 | ‘The Uncanny Minds That Play on Our Sensitivities’, Korea Herald 15 October, 2012 [1000 words] |
| 2012 | ‘The Ultimate Nightmare of the Modern Times’, Korea Herald 4 October, 2012 [1100 words] |
| 2012 | ‘Exchanging Experiences among Generations’, Korea Herald 17 September, 2012 [1300 words] |
| 2012 | ‘Reproduction and The Elusive Quest for Originality’, Korea Herald 03 September, 2012 [1200 words] |
| 2012 | ‘Exploring Boundary Between Man and Machine’, Korea Herald 20 August 2012 [1200 words] |
| 2012 | ‘The Yearning for Conspiracy Theories’, Korea Herald 3 August, 2012 [1200 words] |
| 2012 | ‘Aristotle’s Golden Mean and Doing the Right Thing’, Korea Herald 20 July, 2012 [1300 words] |
| 2012 | ‘War Exhausts Language, the Art of Storytelling’, Korea Herald 6 July, 2012 [1200 words] |
| 2012 | ‘The Lure of Horror: Fulfilling Innermost Desire’, Korea Herald 22 June, 2012 [1300 words] |
| 2012 | ‘The Never-ending Return to the Quandary of Revenge’, Korea Herald 11 June, 2012 [1300 words] |
| 2012 | ‘Why Keep Returning to the Crime Scene?’, Korea Herald 25 May, 2012 [1300 words] |
| 2012 | ‘Thoughts on the Relationship Between Life and Work’, Korea Herald 11 May, 2012 [1200 words] |
| 2012 | ‘We’re Long Past Time to Forget the Titanic Template’, Korea Herald 26 April, 2012 [1100 words] |
| 2012 | ‘Poetry and Barbarism at Heart of Civilized World’, Korea Herald 20 April, 2012 [1250 words] |
| 2012 | ‘The Author Pilloried for Writing an Anonymous Text’, Korea Herald 6 April, 2012 [1400 words] |
| 2010 | ‘Review of The Long Space: Transnationalism and Postcolonial Form by Peter Hitchcock’. Textual Practice 24:6, 2010: pp. 1099-1103 |
| 2010 | ‘Review of The Grammar of Identity: Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the Boundary by Stephen Clingman’. Textual Practice 24:3, 2010: pp. 563-566. |
| 2009 | ‘Review of How to Read Texts: A Student Guide to Critical Approaches and Skills by Neil McCaw’. Language and Literature Vol.18, Issue 4, 2009: pp. 402-405. |
| 2008 | ‘Review of Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster’. M/C Reviews (Online Journal), February, 2007 [500 words] (republished in Opticon1826 Vol.2, Issue 2, Spring 2008). |
| 2006 | ‘Review of Packaging Post/Coloniality: The Manufacture of Literary Identity in the Francophone World by Richard Watts’. Postcolonial Text (Online Journal) Vol.2, Issue 4, 2006 [2000 words] |
| 2006 | ‘Review of La possibilité d’une île by Michel Houellebecq’. Eureka, Issue 1, Spring, 2006: p. 17. |
| 2006 | ‘Review of Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique by Benita Parry’. Radical Philosophy, 135, January/February, 2006: pp. 47-48 [SSCI] |
| 2005 | ‘Review of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro’. Moveable Type (Online Journal), Vol.1, July, 2005 [450 words] |
Teaching
| ENGE2220/UGED2172 | Existentialism and Literature |
| ENGE2130/UGED2186 | Masterpieces of Literature |
| ENGE2110/UGED2195 | Crime Fiction |
| ENGE2120/UGED2185 | Literature and Human Rights |
| ENGE2640 | Introduction to World Literature |
| ENGE3190 | Literature and Culture |
| ENGE5200 | What is Fiction? |
| ENGE5710 | Critical Approaches to Literature |
| ENGE5720 | Comparative Approaches in Literary Studies |
| ENGE5850 | Special Topics in Literary History: Literature and Censorship |
| ENGE5850 | Special Topics in Literary History: World Literature |
| ENGE5210 | Advanced Studies in Literature |
| ENGE5260 | Life Writing |
Service
| 2023-present | External Reviewer (English Literature and English Studies), School of Humanities and Social Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. |
| 2023-present | Committee Member, Direct Grant (DRG) Sub-Panel, Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
| 2022-present | Committee Member, The PhD Support Scheme Panel, Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong King. |
| 2022-present | External Academic Adviser (EAA) in Literary Studies, Department of English, Hang Seng University. |
| 2022-present | External Academic Adviser (EAA) in Literary Studies, Department of English, Lingnan University. |
| 2022-present | Research Postgraduate Coordinator, Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
| 2022-present | Department Library Chair, Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
| 2020-present | Committee member, Committee on Overseas Experience, New Asia College |
| 2018-present | Member of Faculty Scholarship Selection Committee, CUHK. |
| 2018-present | Member of Editorial Board, Hong Kong Review of Books. |
| 2015-present | Member of Editorial Board, Wenshan Review. |
Grants and Awards
Grants
| Internal | |
| 2023-2024 | Direct Grant, Faculty of Arts, CUHK |
| 2020-2021 | Publication Subvention Fund, Faculty of Arts, CUHK |
| 2020-2021 | Publication Subvention Fund, Faculty of Arts, CUHK |
| 2019-2020 | Publication Subvention Fund, Faculty of Arts, CUHK |
| 2019-2020 | Direct Grant, Faculty of Arts, CUHK |
| 2019-2020 | Direct Grant, Faculty of Arts, CUHK (co-investigator, with G. Hamilton) |
| 2016-2017 | Direct Grant, Faculty of Arts, CUHK |
| External | |
| 2025-2027 | General Research Fund, RGC |
| 2023-2025 | General Research Fund, RGC (co-investigator, with G. Hamilton) |
| 2019-2023 | General Research Fund, RGC |
| 2018-2019 | Hongik Publication Grant, Hongik University (with M. Lee) |
| 2016-2017 | Hongik Publication Grant, Hongik University (with M. Lee) |
| 2015-2016 | National Research Foundation New Professor Grant |
| 2014-2015 | National Research Foundation New Professor Grant |
| 2011-2012 | National Research Foundation New Professor Grant |
Awards
| External | |
| 2020-2021 | Luce East Asia Fellowship, The National Humanities Center |
| 2015 | National Research Foundation Excellence Grant |
| 2013 | National Research Foundation Excellence Grant |
| 2011 | National Research Foundation Excellence Grant |