Tammy HO Lai-Ming (Early Career Fellow)
Fields of Study:
Hong Kong Literature; Victorian & Neo-Victorian Fiction; Cotemporary Fiction; Western Poetry & Poetics; Representations of Asia in Western Literature; Literary Afterlives; Literary Theories; Modern Drama
Profile:
Tammy Ho Lai-Ming is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University.
Tammy Ho Lai-Ming's (THLM) biography in her own words:
"THLM studied at the University of Hong Kong, where she obtained her BA (First-class Honours) and MPhil. Her MPhil thesis, entitled Reading Aloud and Charles Dickens’s Style, explores how Dickens’s writing style was influenced by the practice of reading aloud. The thesis also discusses the interrelation between literature and linguistics (especially the concept of orality/aurality and iconicity) in prose fiction.
Funded by King’s International Partnership Scholarships (KIPS) and King’s College London Hong Kong Foundation, THLM completed her PhD studies on neo-Victorian fiction at King’s College London. Her thesis theorises the phenomenon of contemporary appropriation of Victorian literature and culture in terms of aggressive consumption and discusses the modern-day treatment of canonical nineteenth-century texts and authors.
THLM is also a poet, editor and translator. Her story “Let Her Go” won the Third Prize in The Standard-RTHK Short Story Competition 2005 and her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize (four times), the Forward Prize and Best of the Net Anthology (two times)—details below. To date, her work has been translated into Chinese, Filipino, German, Italian, Japanese, Macedonian, Portuguese and Vietnamese (x2), while her translations of other writers can be found in Chinese Literature Today, Drunken Boat, Pathlight, World Literature Today, among other places.
THLM is an Associate Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University, where she teaches fiction, poetry and poetics, and modern drama. In April 2016, she received the Young Artist Award in Literary Arts from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. She is a founding member and (beginning from May 2017) Vice President of PEN Hong Kong. She is also a Junior Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities and an Advisor of The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing."
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