Profile Name: Mr WONG Yu Bon Nicholas Qualifications: - B.A. (HKU) - PCEd (HKU) - MPhil (HKU)

Email:	nybwong@ied.edu.hk
Office:	B4-2/F-13 Department of English Hong Kong Institute of Education 10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po Hong Kong
Tel:	2948 7365

	Hong Kong Cinema (particularly Wong Kar-wai and Johnnie To)
	Queer literary studies
	Fictional works of Haruki Murakami
	Star and fans culture
	The body and body parts
	Film studies
	Creative writing

Nicholas Y.B. Wong is currently serving at the Department of English of Hong Kong Institute of Education as a Teaching Fellow. He has just completed his MPhil thesis on investigating the relationship between body parts, desire and fetishism in contemporary films and literary texts. Besides academic research, Wong is also interested in creative writing and has published poems and short stories both locally and internationally.

Publications

Articles

• "Loving You by Not Falling in Love: Lost in Translation and Chunking Express" in Screen Education (expecting February 2009).
• "Over and Over Again? Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights" in Metro 158, 2008, pp. 56-60.
• "The Carnal Hand and Fetishism in Wong Kar-wai's The Hand" in Asian Cinema. Vol. 19, No. 1. Spring/Summer 2008, pp. 47-58.
• “From Rose Mary to Rolls Royce: Denise Ho x Wyman Wong. Queerness in Denise Ho’s Music” in Fe/male Bodies. Debut Issue. November 2005. Kubrick: Hong Kong. pp 62-8.
• “The Carnal Hand and Fetishism in Wong Kar-wai’s The Hand” in Cinema in/on Asia. (ed) Shin Dong Kim and Joel David. Asian Culture Forum 2006. Gwangju, Korea. pp. 279-94. (Winner of the best three graduate papers presented in the panel “Whither the Orient” at Asia Culture Forum 2006).

Textbook

• NSS Elective Module: Popular Culture (working title). Hong Kong: Oxford University Press (expecting 2009).

Creative Works

“The Importance of Having an ‘R’”

• Yuan Yang , 2001 June. English Department. The University of Hong Kong: Hong Kong.
• Moving Poetry . 2002 Summer. Edited by Shirley Lim and Page Richards. Hong Kong University Press: Hong Kong.
• Also appeared in Shirley Lim’s essay “Cultural Imagination and English in Hong Kong”. Asian Englishes Today. Hong Kong English. Autonomy and Creativity. Edited by Kingsley Bolton. 2002. Hong Kong University Press: Hong Kong.

“Haruki Murakami. A Spring Tree Above the Village”

• Yuan Yang , 2001 June. English Department. The University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong.
• Karawane: A Journal of Experimental Performing Texts . Issue 9. 2007 (10 th Anniversary Issue). p. 31.

“The Evolution of Beard”, “Hymen” and “City of Sameness” in Fe/male Body: Bodywise. July 2006. Kubrick: Hong Kong.

“The Evolution of Beard”, “Hymen”, “City of Sameness”, “Fingernails”, “The Lunatic’s Penis” and “Suicide with McDonald Suk Suk” in Special Hong Kong Edition of Asia and Pacific Writers’ Network (APWN). (ed) Xu Xi. November 2006.

Links:

http://www.apwn.net/index.php?/writing/more/fingernails/

http://www.apwn.net/index.php?/writing/more/the_lunatics_penis/

http://www.apwn.net/index.php?/writing/more/hymen/

http://www.apwn.net/index.php?/writing/more/the_evolution_of_beard/

http://www.apwn.net/index.php?/writing/more/city_of_sameness/

http://www.apwn.net/index.php?/writing/more/suicide_with_mcdonald_suk_suk/

“Suicide with McDonald Suk Suk”

• Yuan Yang . Vol. VII, no. 1. 2006 Decmeber. Department of English, The University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong. pp. 9-14.

Featured poet of The Other Voices International Project. Vol. 26. 2007 (http://www.othervoicespoetry.org/vol26/nwong/index.html)

“Hot cha”

• Nicholas Y.B. Wong (text) and Leon Lai (photo) in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Debut issue. Fall/Winter 2007.
  (http://www.asiancha.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=62&Itemid=48)

《善行者》

• 7-11 與香港話劇團舉辦之「7-11寫意人生‧創意生活」短篇故事創作比賽2007。公開組
  最後十名入圍名單以及創意大獎。

• "Hong Kong Island Mon Amour" (poem), Shadows of Time" (poem), "I for Illness" (short story) and "The Philosophy of Smoking by an Amateur Smoker" (poem) in Fifty-Fifty: New Hong Kong Writing. 2008. (ed) Xu Xi. Hong Kong: Haven Books. pp. 40, 113, 238-48, 288.

• 〈忘了鐘的時間〉and "Timing" (English translation) in Poetry Quarterly. Volume 13. 15 February 2008. Available online at: http://www.poetrysky.com/quarterly/13/quarterly-13-ybwong

• Guest editor of the fourth issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal  (http://www.asiancha.com/, expecting August 2008)

• "Transformer" in Qarrtsiluni. May/June 2008 (On Water). Available at http://qarrtsiluni.com/2008/06/15/transformer/

• "On Melancholy" in Preoccupations: Things Artists Do Anyway. 111 Artists Reveal Their Obsessions. 2008. Cornelia Erdmann and Michael Lee Hong Hwee (eds). laiyanPROJECTS and Studio Bibliotheque: Hong Kong. pp. 210-1.

• Poetry reviewer of Sotto Voce: Prose, Poetry, Essays, Book Reviews, Author Interviews, Photography & Artwork. (http://sottovocemagazine.com/)

Book Reviews

• Cheuk, Pak Tong. Hong Kong New Wave Cinema: 1978-2000 (Intellect, 2008) in Scope: An Online Journal of Film and TV Studies (expecting 2009).
• Gentz, Natascha and Kramer, Stefan (eds). Globalization, Cultural Identities, and Media: Representations (State University of New York Press, 2006) in Discourse: Journal for Theatrical Studies in Media and Culture (expecting 2009).

Film Reviews

On Wong Kar-wai’s The Hand. Scope. An online journal of film studies. Issue 4. February 2006. Institute of Film Studies. University of Nottingham. http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/filmreview.php?issue=4&id=123

Conference Presentations

• “When Eros Lies in The Hand of Wong Kar-wai”. The 27 th Annual Meeting of the Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Popular Culture. Albuquerque, New Mexico. 8-11 February 2006. (Speaker)
• “A Different Kind of Friendship – Reading the Homosocial in Johnnie To’s Election”. The Film Scene: Cinema, The Arts, and Social Change. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 21-22 April 2006. (Speaker)
• “The Carnal Hand and Fetishism in Wong Kar-wai’s The Hand”. “Wither the Orient” in Asian Culture Forum. Kimdaejung Convention Centre in Gwangju, Korea. 26-29 October 2006. (Speaker)
• “Nations in Transition” in Asia Culture Forum. Kimdaejung Convention Centre in Gwangju, Korea. 26-29 October 2006. (Discussant)
• “The Obsession of the Ears: Reading Haruki Murakami’s Blind Willow, Sleep Woman and A Wild Sheep Chase” in Postgraduate Departmental Seminar. Department of Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong. April 24 2007. (Speaker)
• “Reading the Eye as a Haunting and Desirable Organ” in The 2007 International Conference on Inter-Asian Culture, Communication, Conflict, and Peace. City University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong. 4-5 May 2007. (Speaker)
• "Cultural Hybridity, Silence and Secrey: The Transnational and Pansexual Stardom of Jay Chou" in Screenscapes: Past, Present, Future. University of Sydney. Australia. 29 November - 2 December 2007. (Speaker)
• "Masculinity at Risk: The Endangered Policeman and Detective in Exodus and Mad Detective" in Locality, Translocality, and De-locality: Cultural, Aesthetic, and Political Dynamics of Chinese-Language Cinema International Conference. Shanghai University, Shanghai. 12-13 July 2008. (Speaker)