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  • Online Book Launch

    via Zoom

    The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage: The Making of the Theatre of Empire (1853-1893)

    Dr. Rashna Nicholson

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  • American Claimants: A Romance in New Clothes

    via Zoom

    Dr. Sarah Meer - Senior University Lecturer in English - Cambridge University (https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Sarah.Meer/) Abstract I shall argue for the significance of a particular narrative or dramatic scenario in the nineteenth century, on both sides of the Atlantic. This is the 'American Claimant' plot, in which an American heir turns up to claim a British estate.  […]

  • Aestheticism on the Margins: Aesthetic Detachment and the Ethics of Testimony in Twentieth-Century Literature

    via Zoom

    Dr. Aleksandar Stevic - Assistant Professor of English - Lingnan University (https://www.ln.edu.hk/eng/people/details/Sasha) Abstract We usually associate aesthetic detachment with indifference to moral considerations. In the famous formulation of Oscar Wilde, “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.” Unsurprisingly, such commitment […]

  • Virtual Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2021

    The Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2021 will go virtual on October 30, 2021 (Saturday). Join the live chats (10:00am to 11:30am) and mock lectures on English Literature (11:30am), and English Linguistics, and Language and Communication (12:15pm)!

    We look forward to meeting our prospective students and parents online soon.

  • School of English Online Workshops: Applying for Postgraduate Programmes

    via Zoom

    Additional Content The School of English invites you to join us for two Postgraduate Information Workshops on “Applying for Postgraduate Programmes”, featuring a range of programmes available to applicants. We welcome HKU students and other international students interested in our programmes. Do join us if you would like to learn more.   Information Workshop 1: […]

  • Failure’s Shared Unshareability in Yiyun Li

    via Zoom

    Dr. Irving Goh - Assistant Professor of Literature - National University of Singapore (http://www.irving-goh.com/) Abstract This paper addresses an aspect of failure that I am calling “shared unshareability.” Highlighting this aspect of failure runs counter to the communitarian contour that “failure studies” and recent affect theory tend to give to contemporary understanding of failure, but […]

  • Stella Benson, Transnational Crossing, and the Unconsoled

    via Zoom

    Dr. Klaudia Lee - Associate Professor, Department of English - City University of Hong Kong (http://www.cityu.edu.hk/stfprofile/hiuylee.htm) Abstract In the opening of the chapter titled 'Manila – Macao – Hongkong' in her travelogue-memoir The Little World (1925), British writer Stella Benson (1892–1933) writes that there are 'three ways of occupying an alien place – first, to […]