Grant HAMILTON
- B.A.(Hons), M.A. (Winchester), Ph.D. (UNSW)
- Director, MA in English Literary Studies
Telephone
3943 7445
Email
hamilton@cuhk.edu.hk
Office
Fung King Hey 313
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Research Interests
Twentieth-century world literature, postcolonial literatures, African literatures in English, literary theory, computational literary studies
Publications
Books / Monographs Authored
| 2021 | The London Object: Writing London at the End of Capitalism. London: Routledge. |
| 2016 | The World of Failing Machines: Speculative Realism and Literature. Winchester: Zero Books. |
| 2011 | On Representation: Deleuze and Coetzee on the Colonized Subject. Leiden: Brill. |
Edited Volumes
| 2024 | Mapping the Posthuman. London: Routledge (co-edited with Carolyn Lau). |
| 2016 | A Companion to Mia Couto. Suffolk: James Currey (co-edited with David Huddart). |
| 2013 | Reading Marechera. Suffolk: James Currey. |
Chapters in Books
| 2024 | At First Blush: New Materialism and Computational Literary Studies. New Materialist Literary Theory: Critical Conceptions of Literature for the Anthropocene, edited by K. Howaldt and K. Merten, 63-77. Lanham, MA: Lexington Books. |
| 2024 | Technology and Literary Criticism. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Technology and the Humanities, edited by S. Chan, K. Mak and S. M. Leung, 247-258. London: Routledge. |
| 2024 | Introduction: An Orientation. Mapping the Posthuman, edited by G. Hamilton and C. Lau, 1-24. London: Routledge (with C. Lau). |
| 2023 | Densities and Fugitive Vectors. Advances in Techno-Humanities: Case Studies from Culture, Philosophy and the Arts, edited by K. Mak, 28-43. London: Routledge. |
| 2020 | J.G. Ballard's Shanghai. Revealing/Reveiling Shanghai: Cultural Representations from the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, edited by L. Bernstein and C. Cheng, 143-158. New York: SUNY Press. |
| 2019 | Shklovsky and World Literature. Viktor Shklovsky's Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy, edited by S. Gratchev and H. Mancing, 139-150. Lanham, MA: Lexington Books. |
| 2018 | Defamiliarization and the Act of Reading World Literature. Deleuze and the Humanities: East and West, edited by R. Braidotti, K. Y. Wong, and A. K. S. Chan, 11-26. London & New York: Rowman & Littlefield International. |
| 2016 | Introduction. A Companion to Mia Couto, edited by G. Hamilton and D. Huddart, 1-13. Suffolk: James Currey (with D. Huddart). |
| 2016 | Trauma: Repetition and Pure Repetition in The Tuner of Silences. A Companion to Mia Couto, edited by G. Hamilton and D. Huddart, 170-187. Suffolk: James Currey |
| 2016 | Mia Couto, Contexts and Issues: A Bibliographic Essay. A Companion to Mia Couto, edited by G. Hamilton and D. Huddart, 213-221. Suffolk: James Currey (with D. Huddart). |
| 2013 | Introduction: Marechera and the Outside. Reading Marechera, edited by G. Hamilton, 1-10. Suffolk: James Currey. |
| 2013 | Tracing the Stain in Marechera’s ‘House of Hunger’. Reading Marechera, edited by G. Hamilton, 57-75. Suffolk: James Currey. |
| 2010 | Becoming-Nomad: Territorialisation and Resistance in J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians. Deleuze and the Postcolonial, edited by P. Patton and S. Bignall, 183-200. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. |
| 2010 | Organization and the Continuum: History in Vandana Singh’s ‘Delhi’. The Postcolonial Wondrous: Science Fiction, Imperialism, and the Third World, edited by E. Hoagland and R. Sarwal, 65-76. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press. |
Articles in Journals
| 2024 | The Book, Meaning, and Densities of Essential Forms in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe. LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, vol. 35, no. 1: 18-38. |
| 2018 | Aporia and Diaspora: The Unliveable Life in Dinaw Mengestu's How to Read the Air. Journal of the African Literature Association, vol. 12, no. 2: 153-165. |
| 2018 | The Communion of Clouds: Becoming-woman in Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians. Australian Literary Studies: Special Issue on J.M. Coetzee, vol. 33, no. 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.20314/als.23561c8f3f |
| 2017 | Writing from the Outside? Post-1997 Expatriate Writing in Hong Kong. Wasafiri, 32 (3): 18-24 (with D. Huddart). |
| 2014 | On World Literature: When Goethe Met Boltzmann. Textual Practice, 28 (6): 1015-1033. |
| 2013 | Pepetela’s Proposal: Desire and Anarchy in The Return of the Water Spirit. African Identities, 11 (4): 343-352. |
| 2013 | The Man without Others: Deleuze’s Structure-Other. IAFOR Journal of Ethics, Religion and Philosophy, 1 (1): 11-19. |
| 2012 | Uncertainty and the Future: A Reading of V.V. Ganeshananthan’s Love Marriage. South Asian Review, 33 (3): 155-169. |
| 2011 | A Very Necessary Violence: Reading Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange. Modern Horizons, 2. https://modernhorizonsjournal.ca/november2011issue/ |
| 2006 | Chin Ce ‘In the season of another life’. African Journal of New Poetry, 1 (3): 115-137. |
| 2005 | Coetzee’s Dusklands: The Meaning of Suffering. Journal of Literary Studies: Special Issue on J.M. Coetzee, 21 (3/4): 296-314. |
| 2005 | The Minor Movement of the Abject-Hybrid: Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North. New Literatures Review: ContamiNATIONS, 43: 53-65. |
Conference Papers
| 2023 | Dark Seed: Desert Islands and Beginning Again. An invited talk presented at Thinking Islands: Exploring the Sea and the Land in Literature, Film and Philosophy. University of Hong Kong, HK. 6 October. |
| 2022 | Building and Using a Literary Corpus: Introducing Computational Literary Studies. An invited talk presented at the Research Institute for the Humanities Webinar Series: Digital Humanities Across the Faculty. Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK. 9 March. |
| 2022 | A Literature of Densities and Fugitive Vectors. Building a Techno-Humanities Culture in Hong Kong. Caritas Institute of Higher Education, HK. 7 January. |
| 2019 | At First Blush: Object-Oriented Ontology and the Reading Machine. An invited conference paper presented at New Materialist Literary Theory. University of Erfurt, GERMANY. 19 September. |
| 2018 | The Communion of Clouds: A Reading of Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians. An invited lecture. University of Tokyo. JAPAN. 25 May. |
| 2018 | Object-Oriented Philosophy and the Art of Literary Criticism. An invited lecture given at The Society of Fellows Lecture Series. University of Hong Kong, HK. 9 April. |
| 2017 | The Date in the Hong Kong Imaginaire. An invited seminar paper presented at the CCASEA (HK) Symposium. City University, HK. 12 December (with E. Sorensen). |
| 2017 | Writing at the End of Capitalism. An invited seminar paper presented at the Department of English Studies Seminar Series. Durham University, UK. 8 November. |
| 2017 | The Utopian Quality of Hong Kong’s Schizo-Identity. A keynote address at The Humanities PGR Conference 2017. University of Exeter, UK. 12-13 June. |
| 2017 | A Third Way – Creative Criticism. A keynote address at PolyU Writing Roundtable 2017. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK. 19 May. |
| 2016 | Living in the West, thinking of the East –when locality becomes a hyperobject. A conference paper presented at East/West: Ruptures and Convergences. University of Malaya, MALAYSIA. 1-2 December. |
| 2016 | The Becoming-woman of Coetzee’s Magistrate: A Reading of Waiting for the Barbarians. An invited conference paper presented at Reading Coetzee’s Women. Monash University, ITALY. 27-29 September. |
| 2015 | Locality as hyperobject – Hong Kong, 2014. A conference paper presented at In the Regions of Utopia. Newcastle University, UK. 28-30 June. |
| 2014 | De-Familiarization and the Act of Reading World Literature. An invited conference paper presented at Deleuze’s Cultural Encounters with the New Humanities. Shue Yan University, HK. 9-12 June. |
| 2014 | The African Supernatural and an Ontology of Difference. A conference paper presented at The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland: Haunted Landscapes. Falmouth University, UK. 8 March. |
| 2013 | The Inevitable Migration: World Literature. A conference paper presented at The British Comparative Literature Association Conference: Migration. University of Essex, UK. 8-13 July. |
| 2012 | Pepetela’s The Return of the Water Spirit: Deleuze, Desire, and the State. A conference paper presented at 2012 Kaifeng International Deleuze Conference. Kaifeng, CHINA. 18-22 May. |
| 2011 | The Trace in Dambudzo Marechera’s The House of Hunger. A conference paper presented at New Critical Perspectives on the Trace. Malaga, SPAIN. 20-22 October. |
| 2011 | The Ethical Moment of Crisis: Dambudzo Marechera’s Black Sunlight. A conference paper presented at the 4th International Deleuze Studies Conference: Creation, Crisis, Critique. Copenhagen, DENMARK. 27-29 June. |
Teaching
| ENGE2380 | Twentieth-Century Fiction |
| ENGE2640 | Introduction to World Literatures in English |
| ENGE3250 | Other Literature in English |
| ENGE5210 | Advanced Studies in Literature |
| ENGE5270 | Major Contemporary Novels |
| ENGE5310 | Science Fiction and Utopia |
| ENGE5340 | Distant Readings |
Service
| Editorship | |
| 2018-present | General Editor. Hong Kong Review of Books |
Grants and Awards
Grants
| Internal | |
| 2018-2019 | Direct Grant for Research |
| 2015 | Humanities Fellowship of the Faculty of Arts, 2015 |
| 2015-2016 | Direct Grant for Research |
| 2012-2013 | Direct Grant for Research |
| External | |
| 2023-2026 | General Research Fund |