PROFILE

Ian Fong is an independent scholar teaching literary and cultural studies in various tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. He received his PhD degree in comparative literature from the University of Hong Kong.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Walking
• Hong Kong Film and Literature
• Poststructuralism
• Freud and Psychoanalysis
• Nietzsche

PUBLICATIONS (Selected)

Book Chapters

“The ‘Invisible’ in The Way We Are: The Scriptwriter, the Script, the Everyday, and the Audience,” in Women Who Write Our Worlds: Shaping Global Screen Cultures, edited by Rose Ferrell and Rosanne Welch (Bristol: Intellect, 2025) (forthcoming).

“Hong Kong: Home as Gong Wu Between the Local, the National, the Colonial and the Global,” in Multidisciplinary Representations of Home and Homeland in Diaspora, edited by Jean Amato and Kyunghee Pyun (New York: Routledge, 2024) (forthcoming).

“Walking the Everyday in Xi Xi’s Literary Works,” in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies, edited by Jeremy Tambling (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), 1856-1863.

“Everyday Hong Kong and the Writings of Yesi,” in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies, edited by Jeremy Tambling (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), 620-629.

“Woolf, Virginia, Mrs Dalloway,” in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies, edited by Jeremy Tambling (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), 1913-1919.

“Walking in the Crowd: Undoing Male Sexuality,” in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies, edited by Jeremy Tambling (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), 1846-1851.

“Walking in the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin,” in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies, edited by Jeremy Tambling (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), 1839-1846.

“Walking the City: A Chinese Perspective,” in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies, edited by Jeremy Tambling (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), 1851-1855.

Journal Articles

“Nadja as Litterature & Loiterature,” Forum for Modern Language Studies 60.4 (Oct 2024) (forthcoming).

“Hong Kong as Method of The Grandmaster,” Somatechnics: Journal of Bodies – Technologies 14.3 (Oct 2024) (forthcoming).

“A Ghost Tour in Rouge,” Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 12.1 (2014): 89-107.

Conference Presentations

“Approaching the City through Walking,” Association for Cultural Studies Institute 2023. National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Taiwan. 10-15 August 2023.

“Hong Kong as Method of The Grandmaster,” 8th International Martial Arts Studies Conference. University of Sheffield. UK. 19-21 July 2023.

“Photography in Walking: Visualizing Fleeting Moments in Daido Moriyama,” The Street and the City IV -Moments. Faculty of Arts & Humanities, University of Lisbon. Portugal. 7-9 September, 2022.

“Hong Kong: Home as Gong Wu Between the Local, the National, the Colonial and the Global,” 2022 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Taipei. 15-18 June, 2022.

“Resisting Knowledge,” 7th Derrida Today Conference. Washington, DC. 12-15 June, 2022.

COURSES TAUGHT

• CLIT 2025: Visual Cultures, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
• CLIT 2050: Globalization and Culture
• CLIT 3021: Advanced Studies in Theory and Cultural Analysis
• CLIT 3026: Violence in Asia
• CLIT 7011: Hong Kong and Beyond
• CLIT 7014: Film and Popular Culture
• CLIT 7024: Advanced Cultural Studies