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Professor Ho, Hung Lam Elizabeth 何杏林

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Professor Ho, Hung Lam Elizabeth 何杏林

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Assistant Professor

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Short Biography:

Professor Liz Ho received her PhD in English Literature from Rutgers University in 2004. She specializes in late twentieth-century and twenty-first century Anglophone fiction and cultural politics; with research and teaching interests in postcolonial theory and fiction; film, visual literatures such as comics and graphic novel; and global literatures in English.  Liz taught in the U.S. before returning to Hong Kong in 2013.  Her monograph, Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire (Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2012), explores how the resurrection of the nineteenth century in contemporary British and postcolonial texts, ranging from novels to graphic novels, “steampunk” and Jackie Chan films, allows the ghostly legacy of imperialism to be staged and remembered in and for the present. Liz’s current GRF-funded project, tentatively titled, Map-able, The Politics of Postcolonial Space, brings together geo-criticism, critical geography and postcolonial theory to extend a series of critical possibilities in contemporary fiction called “map-ability”. 

Liz is the Consultant Editor of the online journal, Neo-Victorian Studies, and currently serves on the advisory and editorial boards of the International Journal of Students as Partners and the Journal of Cultural Urban Studies.

Professional Qualifications
YearAwarding InstitutionQualification
2004Rutgers UniversityPhD in English Literature
Honours, Awards & Prizes
AwardeesAward DateHonours / Awards / PrizesCategory
2020-11-01Faculty Teaching Excellence Award: Faculty of Arts
Teaching Accomplishment
2019-05-01Fellow of The Higher Education Academy: Higher Education Academy
Teaching Accomplishment
2015-10-01Outstanding Faculty Contribution to Outcomes Based Education: Lingnan University
Teaching Accomplishment
2003-05-01Rutgers University Writing Program Teaching Award: Rutgers University
Teaching Accomplishment
2016-09-01Teaching Excellence Award: Lingnan University
Teaching Accomplishment
Professional Societies
Term PeriodPositionProfessional Societies
05/2020 - 05/2025MemberCouncil of Editors of Learned Journals
MemberModern Languages Association
MemberAmerican Comparative Literature Association
05/2020-05/2025MotherboardASAP (Association for the Study of the Arts in the Present)
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Area of Expertise:
Area of Expertise (EN)Area of Expertise (ZH)
Postcolonial theory and fiction
Neo-Victorian studies
Global literatures in English
Geo-humanities
Contemporary literature
Comics and graphic novels
Spoken Languages:
Spoken Language(s) (EN)Spoken Language(s) (ZH)
English, Cantonese英語、粵語
Written Languages:
Written Language(s) (EN)Written Language(s) (ZH)
English英文
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