PROFILE

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.

PUBLICATIONS

Hong Kong Connections: Eileen Chang and Worldmaking
https://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