Dr. Christian Greiffenhagen
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
4:30 p.m. (Hong Kong time)
Applicants should be Hong Kong residents and fresh graduates.
Applications close: Feb 28, 2022 (HK Time)
Review of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
by WU Tong
Interview with Dr. Claire Gullander-Drolet
by Khadija Azhar, Lok Hang Vincent Chu, and Rajesh Panhathodi
commence on September 1, 2022 for ten months
Applications close: Mar 31, 2022 (HK Time)
commence on September 1, 2022 for ten months
Applications close: Mar 31, 2022 (HK Time)
Dr. Jerrine Tan - Assistant Professor - Department of English, City University of Hong Kong (https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/jerrine-eewen-tan(d1550de2-49b0-46e9-9efe-5f7eb53cf603).html) Abstract Anne Cheng notes in Ornamentalism that, “We say black women, brown women, white women, but not yellow women.” Cheng's statement, which is as much an indictment as an observation, serves as my starting point in asking: what does […]
Commence on June 30, 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter for 1 year.
Applications close: May 20, 2022 (HK Time)
Professor David Farrier - Professor of Literature and the Environment - School of Literature, Languages and Culture, The University of Edinburgh (https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/david-farrier) Abstract The collapse of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier—forecast to occur before the end of the decade—could raise global sea level by three metres. The grounding line, eroded by currents of warm water, is arguable […]
Dr. Brandon Chua - Assistant Professor of English - School of English, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/85/Dr_Brandon_Chua) Abstract Recent studies of the British Enlightenment have turned to a site of cultural production traditionally overlooked in Enlightenment scholarship: the playhouses of Eighteenth Century London. This work-in-progress paper takes up this revisionist inquiry of Georgian theatrical […]
Dr. Charlotte Taylor - Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics (English) - School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex (https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p329327-charlotte-taylor) Abstract In this talk, I discuss the presence and role of nostalgia in contemporary discourses of migration in the UK. I start by examining nostalgia in immigration discourses and take the case-study […]
