Elaine HO 何漪漣 (Fellow)
Until her retirement, Elaine Yee Lin Ho was Professor in the School of English, University of Hong Kong.
She has published 3 books, one co-edited journal special issue, and over 30 of her articles have appeared in internationally refereed journals edited in the UK, US, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. Ho’s monographs on Timothy Mo (Manchester University Press) and Anita Desai (Northcote) are the first book-length critical studies of the two authors. Recently, in China Abroad (HKU Press) and other major articles, she has extended her research on the historical specificities of colonial and postcolonial Hong Kong, both in terms of Hong Kong’s complex relations to mainland China and of Hong Kong’s unique position as a minor locus for English-language literary writing.
At HKU, she has served on committees and taskforces on research, undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, curriculum reform, student affairs, human resources, university services, and panels of inquiry. She has been Associate Dean of the Arts Faculty, Head of the School of English, Senate member, Public Orator.
Elaine Ho's research and teaching interests in her own words:
"Since obtaining my Ph.D in English Renaissance Literature, my research has focused on the study of literary forms, genres, and inventiveness at specific historical junctures. My publications include two book monographs, two co-edited collections of essays, and many articles in the following areas: English Renaissance Literature, travel, marginality, postcoloniality, literary and cultural translation in world anglophone literatures, Hong Kong literature and film, law and literature. I am currently working on a study of anglophone Hong Kong writing, and on trial and court narratives. I have taught courses from Chaucer to contemporary literature. My current teaching interests are poetry as genre, narrative poetry, and representation and identity issues in Hong Kong and world anglophone literatures."
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