SUBJECT: Studentships in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
The Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong
offers studentships in conjunction with its Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programmes. We are looking for exceptional
candidates with a strong research plan in any of the following areas:
- Visual Cultures and Film Studies
- critiques of space; feminist film theory; film language; new media
and aesthetics; media and popular culture studies; contemporary visual
culture; Chinese language cinemas; cinemas of Asia and the
diaspora; poetics
and politics of documentaries
- Feminism and Gender Studies
- Chinese feminism; queer theory; feminist cultural studies; gender
and sexuality; women's writing
- Postcolonial and Global Studies
- colonial, postcolonial, and global studies, especially of greater
China and South East Asia; postcolonial theory; orientalism; colonial
discourse analysis; cultural identity and representation; cultures of
cities; the Cold War and postcolonialism
- Literature and Cultural Theory
- East-West literary/cultural relations; problems of aesthetics;
reception studies; critical and post-structuralist theory;
Marxism; literary
and cultural theory; theories of representation; psychoanalysis; Chinese
modernism;
- Hong Kong and China Studies
- Hong Kong cultural policy; Hong Kong, Taiwan, and P.R.C. cultural,
film, and literary studies; urban Chinese cultures; cultural memory in
Chinese cinemas; historiography of Maoist and post-Mao eras; Chinese
revolutionary culture
The current faculty includes: Esther Cheung, Esther Yau, Daniel Vukovich,
Mirana May Szeto, Ang Sze-wei and Gina Marchetti.
Closing date for applications for 2010-11 is December 31, 2009.
A note on additional funding:
Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme 2010-11
The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme is launched by the Research Grants
Council (RGC) of Hong Kong. The Fellowship Scheme aims to attract the
outstanding students in the world (including those from Hong Kong and
Mainland China) to pursue their PhD degree programmes in Hong Kong.
The Fellowship will provide an annual stipend of HK$240,000
(approximately US$30,000) and a conference and research-related travel
allowance of HK$10,000 (approximately US$1,300) per year. A total of
135 PhD Fellowships will be awarded to all institutions for the
academic year 2010-11.
For more information on the application process to the University of Hong
Kong, visit http://www.hku.hk/gradsch/web/apply/
For more information on specific requirements for the Department of
Comparative literature, visit
http://www.hku.hk/complit/postgrad/mphilphd_guidelines.htm
For more information on graduate studies in the Department of Comparative
Literature, contact: Gina Marchetti at [log in to unmask]
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