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Name: Mr WONG Yu Bon Nicholas
Qualifications: - MFA Candidate (City HK)
-MPhil (HKU)
-PCEd (HKU)
-BA (HKU)
Contact

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


Teaching / Research Interests


Hong Kong Cinema
Film studies
Creative writing
The body and body parts


Nicholas Wong lectures contemporary literatures and film studies in the English Department at HKIEd. He has published several articles on Hong Kong cinema (see publications below) and Learning English through Popular Culture (Oxford University Press, 2009). He is also a creative writer based in Hong Kong and has published short stories and poems locally and internationally. He is currently working on a research project with Dr. Bidisha Banerjee about the representation of Tin Shui Wai in some recent Hong Kong independent films.

Personal homepage: http://nicholasybwong.weebly.com

 

Courses taught (2009-2010)


Undergraduate level:
Introduction to Literary Studies I
Contemporary Literatures in English

Film and Second Language Education
English Language and the Popular Media

Postgraduate level:
Multicultural Contemporary Literature
Introduction to Film Studies
Teaching English through Poems, Songs and the Mass Media

 

Publications

Articles

Textbook

  • Learning English through Popular Culture. 2009. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.

Book Reviews

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.



Creative Works and Engagements

 


Conference Presentations

  • "Embattled Lives in Marginal Space: Portrayals of Tin Shui Wai in Hong Kong Cinema" in Cinema and Landscape Conference. University of Sheffield, England. 16-18 April 2010. (a collaborative project with Dr. Bidisha Banerjee, speaker)

  • "The Canon and I: Creative Poetry Writing as the Literary Scene, Popular Scene and Classroom Scene" in the First International Conference on Popular Culture and Education in Asia. The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong. 11-13 December 2008 (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)

  • "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)

  • “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)

  • “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)

  • “Nations in Transition” in Asia Culture Forum. Kimdaejung Convention Centre in Gwangju, Korea. 26-29 October 2006. (Discussant)

  • “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)

  • “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)

  • “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)




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