Hong Kong Institute of Education ----- Department of English

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.

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

Creative Works and Engagements

“Colourless” featured in Schema Magazine, May 2010.
"Lives" shortlisted for Chroma's 2009 International Queer Writing Competition (poetry section), organized by Chroma: A Queer Literary and Arts Journal.
Poetry reviewer of Sotto Voce: Prose, Poetry, Essays, Book Reviews, Author Interviews, Photography & Artwork.
"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.
"Transformer" inQarrtsiluni. May/June 2008, special issue on water.
Guest editor of the fourth issue ofCha: An Asian Literary Journal, August 2008.
〈忘了鐘的時間〉and"Timing" (English translation) inPoetry Sky, vol 13, February 2008.
"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. Xu Xi (ed). Hong Kong: Haven Books. pp. 40, 113, 238-48, 288.
7-11與香港話劇團之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。
“Hot cha”, text by Nicholas Y.B. Wong and photo by Leon Lai in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Debut issue. Fall/Winter 2007.
Featured poet of The Other Voices International Project, vol. 26. 2007. (featured poems include: “Hymen”, “The Evolution of Beard”, “City of Sameness”, “Fingernails”, “A Lover’s Earlobe” and “The Lunatic’s Penis”)
“Suicide with McDonald Suk Suk” (short story) in Yuan Yang . Vol. VII, no. 1. 2006 December. Department of English, The University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong. pp. 9-14.
“The Evolution of Beard”, “Hymen”, “City of Sameness”, “Fingernails”, “The Lunatic’s Penis” and “Suicide with McDonald Suk Suk” in the special edition on Hong Kong writing titled “Fifty Shrinking Years” of Asia and Pacific Writers’ Network (APWN). Xu Xi (ed). November 2006.
“The Evolution of Beard”, “Hymen” and “City of Sameness” in Fe/male Body: Bodywise. July 2006. Kubrick: Hong Kong.
“Haruki Murakami. A Spring Tree Above the Village” in Yuan Yang , 2001 June. English Department. The University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong.
Reprinted in Karawane: A Journal of Experimental Performing Texts . Issue 9. 2007 (10 th Anniversary Issue). p. 31.
“The Importance of Having an ‘R’” in Yuan Yang, 2001 June. English Department. The University of Hong Kong: Hong Kong.
Reprinted in Moving Poetry: Hong Kong Children’s Poems. 2002. Shirley Lim and Page Richards (eds). Hong Kong University Press: Hong Kong.
Reprinted in Shirley Lim’s essay “Cultural Imagination and English in Hong Kong” in Hong Kong English: Autonomy and Creativity. Kingsley Bolton (ed). 2002. Hong Kong University Press: Hong Kong.

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)