Professor Elaine Y.L. Ho

Tel: (852) 2859 2761
E-mail: eylho@hku.hk
Office: Room 118, Main Building

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Elaine Yee Lin Ho is Professor in the School of English, University of Hong Kong. Since obtaining her Ph.D in English Renaissance Literature, her research has focused on the study of literary forms, genres and inventiveness at specific historical junctures. Her publications include two book monographs, two co-edited collections of essays, and numerous articles on English Renaissance Literature, and on issues such as travel, marginalized subjects, postcoloniality, and literary and cultural translation in world anglophone literatures. She is currently working on a study of anglophone Hong Kong writing, and on narratives that connect law and literature. She has taught courses from Chaucer to contemporary literature. Her current teaching interests are poetry as genre, narrative poetry, and representation and identity issues in Hong Kong and world anglophone literatures.

Please click on the following link to access the Hong Kong anglophone literature database: www.HONGKONG-ENGLISH-LIT.NET

 

Courses taught in 2011-12:

ENGL2035 Reading poetry
ENGL2097 Imagining Hong Kong
ENGL3034 Research seminar in English literary studies: Poetry and Narrative

Publications (Selected List)

2010. "Language Policy, 'Asia's World City', and Anglophone Hong Kong Writing." Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. 12:3. 428-441.

2010. “Chinese English, English Chinese: Biliteracy and Translation”  in Hong Kong Culture: Word and Image. Hong Kong: HKU Press. Chapter 4.

2009. “ ‘Imagination’s Commonwealth’: Edmund Blunden’s Hong Kong Dialogue.” PMLA: Publication of the Modern Language Association of America. 124:1. 1-30.

2009.  China Abroad: Travels, Subjects, Spaces. Hong Kong: HKU Press. (co.ed. with Julia Kuehn).
…“China Abroad. Nation and Diaspora in a Chinese Frame.” “Introduction” to China Abroad: Travels, Subjects, Spaces. Chapter 1. (single-authored)
…  “Nationalism, Internationalism, the Cold War: Crossing Literary-Cultural Boundaries in 1950s Hong Kong.”Chapter 5. (single-authored)

2008. “Childhood and Cultural Memory in Anglophone Hong Kong Fiction: Martin Booth’s Gweilo and Po Wah Lam’s  The Locust Hunter” in China Fictions / English Language: Literary Readings in Diaspora and After. New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi.

2007. "Imperial Globalization and Colonial Transactions: 'African Lugard' and the University of Hong Kong." Critical Zone 2. Hong Kong: HKU Press. 107-146.

2007. "China Upriver: Three Colonial Journeys between Hong Kong and Canton 1906-1911" in A Century of Travels in China: A Collection of Critical Essays on Travel Writing from the 1840s to the 1940s. Hong Kong: HKU Press.

2006.  Anita Desai. Writers and Their Work Series. London: Northcote.

2006. “A Question of Belonging: Reading Jean Arasanayagam through Nationalist Discourse.” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 41:2. 61-82. (co-authored with Harshana Rambukwella)

2001/2. “Small Cultures: The Literatures of Micro-States”. Special Issue of Ariel: a Review of International English Literature. 23:1. (co edited with Shirley Lim).

2000.  Timothy Mo. Contemporary World Writers Series. Manchester:  Manchester UP.

1999/2001. “Women on the Edges of Hong Kong Modernity: the Films of Ann Hui.” Spaces of Their Own: Women’s Public Sphere in Transnational China. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 162-190. rpt. in At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Chapter 8.

1995. "Women in Exile: Gender and Community in Hong Kong Fiction,” Journal of Commonwealth Literature. London: Sage. vol. XXX, no.1:  29-46.

 

 


Last updated: 12 March 2012