Profile
I
arrived in Hong Kong after completing my PhD at King's College
London. My thesis on interwar British women's writing looked
in particular at the essays of women writers such as Virginia
Woolf, Rose Macaulay, Storm Jameson and Rebecca West and was
concerned with how studying the essays of these different women
writers produced a complicated picture of modern writing that
went beyond modernism.
Research
British women's middlebrow writing from the early twentieth
century; British women modernists; Middlebrow writing set in
China by Ann Bridge and Stella Benson; HK film
Courses
taught in 2010-11:
ENGL2022
Women, Feminism and Writing I
ENGL2079 Shakespeare
ENGL2080 Women, Feminism and Writing II
ENGL3034 Research
seminar in English literary studies
Postgraduate
supervision
I would welcome proposals on British women's writing from the
early twentieth century - middlebrow as well as modernist. I
am also open to proposals that examine Asian film.
Publications
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Monographs:
1.
Women, Privacy and Modernity in Early Twentieth Century Britain.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
2. Fruit Chan's Durian Durian. New Hong Kong Cinema Series,
Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 2005.
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Recent
journal articles:
1.
'Southwards and Outwards: Representing Chineseness in New Locations
in Hong Kong Films'. China Abroad. Edited by Elaine Y.L. Ho
and Julia Kuehn. (In press; Hong Kong University Press, Hong
Kong).
2. 'Re-imagining Hong Kong-China from the sidelines: Fruit Chan's
Little Cheung'. Hong Kong Alternative Cinema. Edited by Gina
Marchetti, Tan See-kam and Esther Cheung. (Forthcoming; contracted
to Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong).
3. Tropical Hong Kong: Narratives of Absence and Presence in
Hollywood and Hong Kong Films of the 50s and 60s'. Singapore
Journal of Tropical Geography. Special Issue on the Tropical
Asian City on Film. Edited by Chua Beng Huat. March 2008.
4. 'The Hong Kong Local on Film: Re-imagining the Global'. Jump
Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media. Vol. 49, 2007. http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/wendygan/index.html
5. Leisure in Interwar Domestic Novels'. Women: A Cultural Review,
vol. 17, no. 2, 2006.
6. '0.01cm: Affectivity and Urban Space in Chungking Express'.
Scope: an online journal of film studies, Nov 2003. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/journal/articles/affectivity-and-urban-space.htm.
7. 'A Return to Romance: Winifred Holtby's Spinster Novels from
Between the Wars'. Orbis Litterarum: International Review of
Literary Studies, Vol. 58, no. 3, Spring 2003.
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