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. […]
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 […]
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.
Dr. Brian King, School of English
Time: 5:00 PM
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: […]
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 […]
Friday 4:00pm
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 […]
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Don Mee Choi, and Feminist Translation as Historiographic Practice
by Dr. Claire Gullander-Drolet
Applications close: Mar 15, 2022 (HK Time)
