PROFILE

Dr. Jasper van Holsteijn is a Senior Lecturer at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, where he manages and teaches in the General Education programme (both the mandatory Liberal Arts courses and Academy-wide Elective courses) for bachelor’s degree students. He also teaches research and entrepreneurship related courses for HKAPA postgraduate programmes. Jasper is committed to innovative pedagogy and was a finalist for the UGC Teaching Award 2022. His interests include teaching and learning technologies, liberal arts pedagogy, and speculative fiction.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Speculative fiction
• Hong Kong Cinema
• Gangster Films
• Liberal Arts education

PUBLICATIONS (Selected)

Book

Van Holsteijn, Jasper. Besieged Brotherhood and the Transformation of Triad Traditions : the Hong Kong Triad Genre as an Allegorical Critique of Plutocratic Hypocrisy. 2019. The University of Hong Kong, PhD dissertation

COURSES TAUGHT

• CLIT7009: Modernity and Its Paths, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU