{"id":63,"date":"2025-12-19T09:07:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cuhk-arts-eng.creasant.in\/rchv\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2025-12-22T04:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:09:01","slug":"associate-researcher","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eng.cuhk.edu.hk\/rchv\/people\/associate-researcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Associate Researcher"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Research Interests<\/span><\/h4>\r\n
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Comparative literature, humanities education, modernism, phenomenology & literature, literature & philosophy, Irish studies, the philosophy of education, literature and emotions, Michel Henry, James Joyce<\/p>\n

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Selected Publications<\/span><\/h4>\r\n
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Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2021<\/td>\n\n

The Economics of Empire: Genealogies of Capital and the Colonial Encounter.<\/i><\/a>\u00a0(edited with Maureen Ruprecht Fadem). New York: Routledge, 2021.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2021<\/td>\nLockdown Lovers.<\/i><\/a>\u00a0Penguin, 2021.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>\nCloneliness: on the reproduction of loneliness.<\/i>\u00a0New York: Bloomsbury<\/a>\u00a0[paperback] (2021)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020<\/td>\n\n

The Value of the Humanities in Higher Education: Perspectives from Hong Kong.<\/i><\/a>\u00a0Authors: Chan, E., Mak, F.K.Y., Thomas, Y.S.H., Hu, Y., O\u2019Sullivan, M., Tay, E. Singapore: Springer, 2020.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2020<\/td>\n\n

East-West Dialogues: On the transferability of concepts.<\/i><\/a>\u00a0(edited with Prof. Christoph Bode and Prof. Eli Park Sorenson, and Dr. Lukas Schepp) Oxford: Peter Lang, 2020.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2019<\/td>\nCloneliness: on the reproduction of loneliness<\/i>. New York: Bloomsbury<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>\n\n

Irish expatriatism, language and literature: the problem of English<\/i><\/a>. New York: Palgrave, 2018.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2016<\/td>\n\n

Academic barbarism, Universities and Inequality<\/i><\/a>. Critical Universities Series. London: Palgrave, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2016<\/td>\n\n

The Future of English in Asia: Perspectives on Language and Literature<\/i><\/a>. London: Routledge, 2016 (with David Huddart and Carmen Lee).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2016<\/td>\n\n

The humanities in contemporary Chinese contexts<\/i>. London: Springer, 2016 (with Evelyn Chan).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2014<\/td>\n\n

The humanities and the Irish University<\/i><\/a>. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2014<\/td>\nThe Incarnation of Language: Joyce, Proust and a philosophy of the flesh<\/a>\u00a0[paperback], 2014.<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/td>\n\n

Weakness: A Literary and Philosophical History<\/a>. London: Continuum, 2012.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2012<\/td>\n\n

Beckett Re-Membered: After the Centenary<\/a>. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (edited with James Carney, Leonard Madden and Karl White), 2012.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2009<\/td>\n\n

Affecting Irishness: Negotiating Cultural Identity within and beyond the Nation<\/a>. New York: Peter Lang, 2009 (edited with James P. Byrne and P\u00e1draig Kirwan).<\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2008<\/td>\n\n

The Incarnation of Language: Joyce, Proust and a Philosophy of the Flesh. Continuum Literary Studies<\/a>. London & New York: Continuum, 2008.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2006<\/td>\nMichel Henry: Incarnation, Barbarism and Belief. An Introduction to the work of Michel Henry<\/a>. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2006.<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2013<\/td>\n\n

O\u2019Sullivan, Michael. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4th Ed. Roland Greene, editor in chief; Stephen Cushman, general editor, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani & Paul Rouzer, associate editors. Asian Cha. March, 2013.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2012<\/td>\n\n

O\u2019Sullivan, Michael. \u201cIrish Autobiography: Stories of Self in the Narrative of a Nation\u201d. Life Writing. Vol. 9.4, 2012.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2010<\/td>\n\n

O\u2019Sullivan, Michael. \u201cNarratives of Class in New Irish and Scottish Literature: from Joyce to Kelman, Doyle, Galloway, and Mcnamee (review).\u201d Mfs Modern Fiction Studies. 56.3 (2010): 647-650. Print.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2005<\/td>\n\n

O\u2019Sullivan, Michael. \u201cActs of Narrative (review).\u201d Mfs Modern Fiction Studies. 51.3 (2005): 724-727. Print.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2004<\/td>\n\n

Agamben, Giorgio, and Michael O\u2019Sullivan. \u201cReviews \u2013 the Open: Man and Animal.\u201d Radical Philosophy. (2004): 54. Print.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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Edited Journals<\/strong><\/p>\n

Editorial Board for British and Irish Literature \u2013 Oxford Bibliographies<\/p>\n

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Articles and Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2018<\/td>\n\n

Michael O\u2019Sullivan (2018) Loneliness as method: Henry James, individualism and the \u2018more intimate education\u2019, Textual Practice, DOI:\u00a010.1080\/0950236X.2018.1508492<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2017<\/td>\n\n

\u201cDavid Foster Wallace, loneliness, and the \u201cpretty much nothing\u201d the university teaches\u201d Literature Compass. Vol. 14. Issue 7. Wiley. 2017.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2016<\/td>\n\n

\u201cAcademic barbarism and the literature of concealment: Roberto Bola\u00f1o and W. G. Sebald\u201d Academic barbarism, universities and inequality. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2016<\/td>\n\n

\u201cIncarnation and shame: Reading Richard Swinburne on Jesus\u2019 \u201cdivided mind\u201d in light of Christian phenomenology and T. S. Eliot\u2019s Four Quartets\u201d. Cogent Art and Humanities. Taylor & Francis. Volume 3, Issue 1, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2016<\/td>\n\n

\u201cBringing them into the Fold: Deleuze and three images for an east-west humanities.\u201d Deleuze and the New Humanities. Ed. Rose Braidotti.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2016<\/td>\n\n

\u201cEducational inequalities in higher education in Hong Kong\u201d (with Michael Tsang) Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. 2016.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2015<\/td>\n\n

\u201cLoneliness and the Submerged Population: Frank O\u2019Connor\u2019s The Lonely Voice and Joyce\u2019s \u2018The Dead’\u201d. The Irish Short Story. Ed. Elke D\u2019Hoker. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2015.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2014<\/td>\n\n

\u201cSingular Celibates: Narrative Seduction in Moore and Joyce\u201d in George Moore : artistic visions and literary worlds. Ed. Mary Pierse. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 206-19<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2013<\/td>\n\n

\u201cOn the new Chinese Translation of Finnegans Wake\u201d. James Joyce Quarterly, 50.4, pp. 1095-99.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2013<\/td>\n\n

\u201cThe Sentimental Kindness of Criticism: and Joyce\u2019s \u2018cup of kindest yet’\u201d Textual Practice, 27:2, 295-314, 2013.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2012<\/td>\n\n

\u201cBeckett and the \u2018authentic weakness of being’\u201d in Beckett Re-Membered: After the Centenary. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (edited with James Carney, Leonard Madden and Karl White), 2012.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2012<\/td>\n\n

Introduction. Beckett Re-Membered: After the Centenary. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (edited with James Carney, Leonard Madden and Karl White), 2012.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2010<\/td>\n\n

\u201cGiving Up Control: Narrative Authority and Animal Experience in Coetzee and Kafka\u201d, Mosaic, 2010.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2010<\/td>\n\n

\u201cGiving Flesh; The Gift of Weakness,\u201d Parallax. 16.1. January-March 2010, pp. 56-67.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2009<\/td>\n\n

\u201cLimning the Liminal, Thinking the Threshold: Irish Studies\u2019 Approach to Theory,\u201d in Liminal Borderlands in Irish Literature and Culture. Reimagining Ireland. Vol. 9. Eds. Irene Gilsenin Nordin & Edin Holmsten. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 17-34.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2007<\/td>\n\n

\u201cTaking Reading Hostage: Ethical Criticism\u2019s Rhetoric of Alterity\u201d. Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration Journal of Language, Communication and Culture, March, 2007.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2006<\/td>\n\n

\u201cL\u2019Universit\u00e9 sans profession (the unemployed university): The Privilege of the Conflict of the Faculties\u201d Parallax, 12.3, July 2006, pp. 112-24.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2005<\/td>\n\n

\u201cNarrative\u201d. The Year\u2019s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005, 13: 98-111.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2005<\/td>\n\n

\u201cMetaphor\u2019s Lost Time: Notes on the new translations of Proust\u201d Nottingham French Studies, Vol. 44 No. 2, Summer 2005, pp. 31-41.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2005<\/td>\n\n

\u201cMetaphor\u2019s Lost Time: Notes on the new translations of Proust\u201d Nottingham French Studies, Vol. 44 No. 2, Summer 2005, pp. 31-41.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2005<\/td>\n\n

\u201c\u2018Bare Life\u2019 and the Garden Politics of Roethke and Heaney\u201d Mosaic, 17.4, December 2005, pp. 17-34.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2005<\/td>\n\n

\u201cThe Irish Tenor: Metaphor and its Voice in Irish Criticism\u201d New Voices in Irish Criticism 5 (Four Courts Press, Dublin 2005).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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Creative Writing<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2016<\/td>\n\n

\u201cWhen Miguel de Cervantes met William Shakespeare\u201d Quixotica. Hong Kong: Chameleon Press, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2015<\/td>\n\n

\u201cDead Wood\u201d in Desde Hong Kong: poets in conversation with Octavio Paz. Chameleon Press, Hong Kong, 2015.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2015<\/td>\n\n

\u201cThe King\u201d in Desde Hong Kong: poets in conversation with Octavio Paz. Chameleon Press, Hong Kong, 2015<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2014<\/td>\n\n

\u201cOn meeting the mother of MichaelAngelo\u201d Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Hong Kong: June 2014 (issue 24). Internet Resource.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2010<\/td>\n\n

\u201cStranger\u201d Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Hong Kong: February 2010 (issue 10). Internet resource.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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Research Grants and Awards<\/span><\/h4>\r\n
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2018<\/td>\n\n

R-Portion Grant for a Borders Conference: 30,000 HKD<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2018<\/td>\n\n

R-Portion Grant for an LMU-CUHK Exchange Conference: 40,000 HKD<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2016<\/td>\n\n

Co-Investigator in University Grants Committee Project entitled \u201cThe Economic Value of the Humanities in Hong Kong\u201d: 758,000HKD<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2015<\/td>\n\n

Pilot Study Grant: 40,000HKD<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2015<\/td>\n\n

Young Researcher of the Year. The Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 100,000HKD<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2015<\/td>\n\n

Direct Grant: 22,000 HKD. The Chinese University of Hong Kong<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2014<\/td>\n\n

The Young Researcher Award 2014 \u2013 The Chinese University of Hong Kong<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2012<\/td>\n\n

Direct Grant. 56,000 HKD. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2011-2012<\/td>\n\n

Faculty of Arts Humanities Fellowship, The Chinese University of Hong Kong<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div> <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-other-people.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.cuhk.edu.hk\/rchv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.cuhk.edu.hk\/rchv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.cuhk.edu.hk\/rchv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.cuhk.edu.hk\/rchv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.cuhk.edu.hk\/rchv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/eng.cuhk.edu.hk\/rchv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/eng.cuhk.edu.hk\/rchv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.cuhk.edu.hk\/rchv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}