Dr Maureen Chun

Tel: 3917 4487
E-mail: mchun@hku.hk
Office: Room 849, 8/F, Run Run Shaw Tower (Building B, Arts), Centennial Campus

Profile

MA, PhD in Comparative Literature, 2011, Princeton University.

DEA in Texte, Imaginaire, Societe, 2004, University of Paris.

BA in Comparative Literature, 2001, Barnard College, Columbia University.

 

Publications and current projects

The Secret Languages of Modernism. Book project on the language of narrative and consciousness as a non-subjective phenomenon in the later major works of Henry James, Woolf, and Faulkner.

“Between Sensation and Sign: The Secret Language of The Waves.Journal of Modern Literature 36.1 (Fall 2012).

Translation of Raoul Moati, Derrida/Searle. Déconstruction et langage ordinaire. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2009. Forthcoming from Columbia University Press.

 

Recent conferences

“Virginia Woolf and the Language of Sensation.” Panelist and co-organizer for the panel “The Senses of Modernism.” Modernist Studies Association, 2012.

“The Language of Consciousness Without Psychology.” Presented at intercollegiate Modernism colloquium at the University of Hong Kong, 2012.

 

Research and teaching interests

Twentieth-century British literature
Modernism and comparative literature
Literary theory, narrative and the novel
Film studies
Postwar literature

 

Courses taught in 2012-13:

ENGL1041       Subjectivity in literature
ENGL6070       Introduction to Thesis Writing in English

 

 


Last updated: 22 October 2012