Professor Nicole Huang

PhD (UCLA)
MALCS Chair
RRST* 9.37
nhuang26@hku.hk
3917 7047

ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH BIO
Professor Nicole Huang received her PhD in East Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of California, Los Angeles, and taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison for seventeen years before joining the University of Hong Kong in 2017. She is the author of Women, War, Domesticity: Shanghai Literature and Popular Culture of the 1940s (Leiden, 2005) and Hong Kong Connections: Eileen Chang and Worldmaking (Hong Kong, 2022), and the co-editor of Written on Water (a collection of essays by Eileen Chang, New York, 2023). Her recent work engages visual and auditory culture of contemporary China, with a forthcoming monograph on a culture of listening in late-Mao China. She is currently working on a book project that situates the writer Eileen Chang on a relational map of world literature.

Recent books
Hong Kong Connections: Eileen Chang and Worldmaking
cup.cuhk.edu.hk/HongKongConnection
Written on Water
https://www.nyrb.com/products/written-on-water?variant=39320375656616

Curation
Eileen Chang at the University of Hong Kong (https://www.virtual.umag.hku.hk/eileenchang100)

COURSES TAUGHT AT THE DEPARTMENT
Undergraduate Courses:
CLIT1008 Ways of Reading
CLIT2025 Visual Cultures
CLIT2060 Fiction and film in contemporary Chinese societies
CLIT3021 Advanced Studies in Theory and Cultural Analysis
MALCS Course:
CLIT7016 Contemporary Chinese Literature and Film

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