THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG FACULTY OF ARTS Joint PhD Programme List of Intending Supervisors and Research Interests/Topics Department Name of faculty member Research interests/topics Potential joint supervisor(s) Past/current collaboration(s), if applicable Dr. Otto Heim, Associate Adam Jaworski, Dr. Julia Kuehn, Associate Dr. Olga Zayts, Assistant Caribbean literary studies Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, language and globalization, multimodality Victorian literature Applied linguistics and theoretical linguistics, human language technology Susan Castillo, Harriet Beecher Stowe of American Studies, Department of Anna Snaith, of Twentieth-Century Literature Department of Dr Martin Dewey, Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Department of Education and Professional Studies, KCL Josephine McDonagh, of Nineteenth-century Literature, Department of Celia Roberts, Emeritus of Applied Linguistics, Department of Education and Professional Studies, KCL - Collaboration on fin-de-siecle popular novel project ( McDonagh as Dr. Kuehn s PhD supervisor) - Collaboration on upcoming Australasian Victorian Studies Association Annual Conference Victorian Traffic in Hong Kong 2013 P. 1
School of Chinese School of Chinese School of Chinese Dr. Gang Song, Associate Dr. Siu Fu Tang, Assistant Dr. Henri Wing On Yeung, Associate Dr. Sze Wai Ang, Assistant Dr. Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park, Assistant Gina Marchetti, Dr. Mirana M. Szeto, Assistant Dr. Daniel Vukovich, Associate Dr. Esther Yau, Associate China-West historical studies, history of Christianity in East Asia (with a focus on China), history of cartography in China, Confucian intellectual history, Ming-Qing cultural studies, early Buddhism in China, classical Chinese literature and criticism, modern Chinese fiction Confucianism, Chinese philosophy, ethics, modernity and Chinese thought, comparative philosophy Civilization and cultural history of Imperial China, religious Daoism and popular religions of traditional China, regional history of South China, Hong Kong and S.E. Asia, migration history of overseas Chinese in S.E. Asia and Australia, Sui & Tang China (581-907), Ming China (1368-1644), cultural changes in modern and contemporary China Film, Literary, and Cultural Theory, Postcolonial and Transnational Studies, South East Asian Studies, American Studies Hong Kong action cinema, contemporary Asian cinema, sound theory, international action cinema, transnational cinema Global film, Asian/Asian American cinema, sexuality and gender, critical and cultural theory and praxis Film, Literary and Cultural Studies, Literary and Cultural Theory, Urban, Postcolonial and Global Studies Critical and Political Theory, Postcolonial Studies (politics, historiography, discourse) Visual Cultures and Film Studies, Feminism and Gender Studies, Postcolonial and Global Studies, Literature and Cultural Theory, Hong Kong and China Studies Xinzhong Yao, Emeritus, Lau China Institute, KCL Chris Berry, in Film Studies, Department of Film Studies, KCL (Research Interest: Chinese-language and other East Asian screen cultures) Susan Castillo, Harriet Beecher Stowe of American Studies, Department of Dr. Jinhee Choi, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Department of Film Studies, KCL (Research Interest: Contemporary South Korean Cinema, East Asian Cinema and Space, Shojo Writing in the 1920s and 30s, Girlhood and East Asian Cinema, and Film-Philosophy) P. 2
Dr. Winnie Yee, Assistant Contemporary Chinese literature and film, Hong Kong culture, independent cinema, Chinese Diaspora, eco-criticism, literary and cultural theories, world literature, and postcolonial theories Dr. Victor Fan, Lecturer in Film Studies, Department of Film Studies, KCL (Research Interest: Shanghai cinema in the 1930s, Chinese and comparative film theory, Hong Kong Cantonese cinema, martial arts cinema, contemporary Sinophone independent films and queer cinemas, contemporary Hollywood) Dr. Mark Shiel, Reader in Film Studies and Urbanism, Department of Film Studies, KCL (Research Interest: Urban History/Sociology, Media and Visual culture) John Carroll, Dr. Peter Cunich, Associate Dr. Robert Peckham, Associate History / religious and economic history of late-medieval and early-modern England, higher education in the British Empire, missionary activity in Asia P. 3 Ginette Vincendeau In Film Studies, Department of Film Studies, KCL [Research Interest: French cinema (especially stars and popular film genres, ethnicity in French cinema, the representation of Paris), European cinema (especially popular European cinema, trans-european productions)] Richard Drayton, Rhodes of Imperial History, Department of History, KCL Ashley Jackson, of Imperial and Military History, Department of Defence Studies, KCL
Dr. David Pomfret, Associate Dr. Priscilla Roberts, Associate Dr. Lucy Kostyanovsky, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, Department of History, KCL Dr Simon Sleight, Lecturer in Australian History, Department of History and Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, KCL (Music) (Music) Dr. Giorgio Biancorosso, Associate Daniel Chua, Music and Film, Philosophy of Music Music and Film, Philosophy of Music Dr. Jon Wilson, Senior Lecturer in British Imperial and South Asian History, Department of History, KCL John Deathridge, Emeritus King Edward of Music, Department of Music, KCL Martin Stokes, King Edward of Music, Department of Music, KCL Dr. Max Deutsch, Associate Dr. Chris Fraser, Associate Dr. Joe Lau, Associate Roger Parker, Thurston Dart of Music, Department of Music, KCL Dr. David Galloway, Lecturer in Philosophy, Department of David Papineau, of Philosophy of Science, Department of Mark Textor, of Philosophy, Department of P. 4 Charles Travis, Emeritus of Philosophy,
School of Modern Languages and Cultures School of Modern Languages and Cultures Centre for the Humanities and Medicine Dr. Heung Wah Wong, Associate Dr. C.R. Vogt, Assistant Dr. Robert Peckham, Associate Japanese companies and management, Japanese companies in Greater China, globalization of Japanese popular culture, Hong Kong popular culture, cultural industry, cultural marketing, cultural consumers European foreign policy, EU-China relations (esp. Britain and Germany), Political leadership, European diplomatic history (20th century) Department of Dr. Hye-Kyung Lee, Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries, Centre for Culture, Media and Creative Industries, KCL Dr. Alessio Patalano, Lecturer in War Studies, Department of War Studies Anne Marie Rafferty,, Centre for the Humanities and Health, KCL Remarks: More supervisors and areas of specialization will be added to the list later. Please write to arts@hku.hk if your intended supervisor or subject area is not on the list. July 2015 P. 5