PROFILE

Gray Kochhar-Lindgren is the co-founding Director of Wild Studios Consulting and Creative Productions LLC, where he is facilitating Future Readiness, Activating Eco-Imaginations, the Arts and AI, and Transdisciplinary Teaching and Learning. Having retired in 2022 as the Director of HKU’s Common Core, Gray continues to serve as an Honorary Professor of the Humanities and Affiliate Faculty in Comparative Literature. In 2025-26 he will also serve as the Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama-Huntsville. A Fulbright Scholar and the recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Award (Team) from both the UGC and from HKU, Gray is the lead editor of Transdisciplinary Experiments (UCL Press, forthcoming) and is in the midst of writing After Magritte: Philosophical Fabulations and GeoLyrics: ReOrienting Thought for the Next Millenium

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Literary, Cultural, and Urban Theory
• Posthuman Philosophies of Immanence
• Philosophy & Painting
• Elementality,Eco-Aesthetics, & the Orientation of Thought
• Techno-Poetics: Arts, Humanities, and AI
• Transdisciplinary Teaching & Learning
• The Arts, Humanities, and the Future of Work

PUBLICATIONS (Selected)

Book(s)

Transdisciplinary Experiments: Teaching, Research, and Institutionalization (Lead Editor) with Jack Tsao (HKU) and Wendy Sims-Schouten (UCL). London: UCL Press (forthcoming, 2025)

Pintxos: Small Delicacies & Chance Encounters (utopos Creative Criticism, 2023)

Urban Arabesques: Philosophy, Hong Kong, Transversality (New Critical Humanities Series, Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020)

Kant in Hong Kong: Walking, Thinking, and the City (Eye Corner Press, 2014)

Philosophy, Art, and the Specters of Jacques Derrida (Cambria Press, 2011)

Night Café: The Amorous Notes of a Barista (Eye Corner Press, 2010)

TechnoLogics: Ghosts, the Incalculable, and the Suspension of Animation (SUNY Press, 2005)

Journal Article(s)

“Spinoza’s City: Donkeys, Deligny, & the Joy of the Streets,” Philosophy of the City Journal https://ugp.rug.nl/potcj (forthcoming, 2025)

“Trembling Thinking: Myth, Science, and Archipelogics,” (with Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren), Lives of the Deltas, Eds. Rick Dolphijn and Winnie Yee. (forthcoming)

“Harlequin’s Cloak: A Roundtable Commentary on Key Texts on Interdisciplinary Higher Education: Ed. Iris van der Tuin.” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. (2025)

“Floating Cities: Xi Xi, Magritte, and the Insouciance of Allegory” (2025-01-21). PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies. Vol. 20 No. 1-2 (2024): Global Citizenship in Higher Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/pjmis.v20i1-2.9420

Tsao, Jack, Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, Adrian Lam. (June 21, 2024). “Institutionalising a Transdisciplinary Curriculum: Assemblages, Territories, and Refrains,” Higher Education. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01250-w)

“Chiaroscuro: Deleuze, Bloch, and the Philosophy of Detective Novels,” Clues: A Journal of Detection 41.2 (September 2023): 64-72.

“Alleys in Wonderland: Hong Kong’s Back Alleys as Celebrated Cinematic Spaces: in conversation with Nik Ettel” (2021) ADATO #1: Re-Edited:https://issuu.com/pointnemo_adato/docs/alltogethernow

Conference Presentation(s), Interview(s), Professional Experience(s)

Please see:https://hku-hk.academia.edu/GrayKochharLindgren

COURSE(S) TAUGHT

• CLIT 7018: Realism/Surrealism