MICHAEL KA-CHI CHEUK 卓嘉智 CURRICULUM VITAE MARCH 2021
Nationality: Hong Kong-British National (Overseas) Address: Room A0722, School of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University of Hong Kong, Ho Man Tin, Hong Kong Tel: (+852) 2768-5735 Email: [email protected] / [email protected]
EDUCATION 2015-19 SOAS University of London PhD Chinese and Inner Asian Studies Thesis: “Escape from Censorship: The Aesthetics of Reflexivity in Gao Xingjian’s Pre-Nobel Plays” (Supervised by Rossella Ferrari; Examined by Sebastian Veg)
2014-15 The Chinese University of Hong Kong PGDE Secondary School English Teaching
2010-13 Hong Kong Baptist University MPhil American Literature
2009-11 The University of Hong Kong MFA Creative Writing
2006-09 Hong Kong Baptist University BA English Language and Literature
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Sept 2018-Present The Open University of Hong Kong Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature
Sept 17- Jul 18 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, SOAS Graduate Teaching Assistant
Sept 12- Jun 14 HKU SPACE Community College Lecturer (Part-time)
RESEARCH GRANTS OBTAINED 2020 – 2021 Faculty Development Scheme, Hong Kong Research Grant Committee Project Title: “Escaping Prestige: The Transmedia Aesthetics of Gao Xingjian’s Post-Nobel Works” (Principal Investigator; HKD 638,350/ GBP 58,900)
1 RESEARCH INTERESTS Hong Kong Studies Culture, Media, and Creative Industries Gao Xingjian Studies Chinese-Language Hip Hop World Literature
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS Journal Articles 1. Cheuk, Michael Ka-chi. “The Politics and Aesthetics of Featuring in Post-2017 Chinese Hip Hop.” Cultural Studies 35:1, 2021. 90-109. (AHCI, SSCI & Scopus)
2. Cheuk, Michael Ka-chi. “Literary Celebrities as Counterpublics: A Comparative Study of Gao Xingjian and Toni Morrison.” Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies (Revised and resubmitted; ERIH & Scopus)
3. Cheuk, Michael Ka-chi. “Escape from Censorship: Gao Xingjian’s Aesthetics of Reflexivity.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. (Revise and resubmit; AHCI)
4. Cheuk, Michael Ka-chi. “Escaping Orientalism: Gao Xingjian’s Self-Orientalization in the World Literary Space.” Archiv orientální. (Under review; AHCI, ERIH PLUS & Scopus)
5. Cheuk, Michael Ka-chi. “Escaping Prestige: L'année Gao and Death.” Special Issue on “Marketing World Literature: Book Fairs, Festivals, Prizes,” ed. David Damrosch. Journal of World Literature. (Under review; ERIH PLUS & Scopus)
Book Chapters 1. Cheuk, Michael Ka-chi. “The Low Mays and the Transgression of Wo Lei Fei Fei.” In For The Culture: Hip Hop and the Fight for Social Justice, eds. Lakeyta M. Bonnette- Bailey and Adolphus G. Belk, Jr. (Forthcoming 2021, University of Michigan Press)
2. Cheuk, Michael Ka-chi. “The Language of Trauma in Selected Short Stories by Gao Xingjian.” In Memory, Trauma, Asia: Recall, Affect, and Orientalism in Contemporary Narratives, eds. Rahul K. Gairola and Sharanya Jayawickrama. Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2021. 31-47.
3. Cheuk, Michael Ka-chi. “The ‘Lazy’ Element: LMF and the Localization of Hip Hop Authenticity.” Cultural Conflict in Hong Kong: Angles on a Coherent Imaginary, eds. Jason S Polley, Vinton Poon, Lian-hee Wee. Singapore: Palgrave, 2018. 149-66.
Encyclopaedia Entries 1. Cheuk, Michael Ka-chi. “Gao Xingjian and the Hong Kong Handover.” In The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Urban Literary Studies, ed. Jeremy Tambling, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2020. Web. http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319- 62592-8_129-1.pdf
Book Reviews 1. Cheuk, Michael Ka-chi. Review of Gao Xingjian and Transmedia Aesthetics eds. Mabel Lee and Jianmei Liu. Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC). 2 Nov 2019. http://u.osu.edu/mclc/book-reviews/cheuk/.
2. Cheuk, Michael Ka-chi. Review of Wandering Mind and Metaphysical Thoughts by Gao
2 Xingjian, trans Gilbert Fong. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. 7 Apr 2019. https://chajournal.blog/2019/04/07/gao-xingjian/.
Theatre Reviews/Interviews 1. “An Interview with Stan Lai on The Village, his artistic vision, and Hong Kong.” The Theatre Times. 26 Oct 2019. http://thetheatretimes.com/an-interview-with-stan-lai-on-the-village-his- artistic-vision-and-hong-kong/.
2. “Law Wing-fai’s Atmospheric Music Theatre, ‘Beyond the Senses,’ Staged in London.” The Theatre Times. 18 Jul 2017. http://thetheatretimes.com/law-wing-fais- atmospheric-music-theatre-beyond-senses-staged-london/.
Web-Based Publications 1. Cheuk, Michael Ka-chi. “Protest Without Boundaries: A Nobrow Reading of Richard Wright's Native Son and NWA’s Straight Outta Compton.” Magazine Americana: The American Popular Culture Magazine. Jun-Oct 2014. 21 pp. Web. http://www.americanpopularculture.com/archive/music/wright_nwa.htm
2. Cheuk, Michael Ka-chi. “Protest Literature: Deconstruction of Antebellum Proslavery Ideology in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” Proceedings of the Fourth Asian Literature and Librarianship Conference. Osaka, Japan. Jun 2014. 163-174. Web. http://papers.iafor.org/conferenceproceedings/LibrAsia/LibrAsia2014_proceedings.pdf
Monographs in Preparation 1. Escaping Censorship: Gao Xingjian and Transmediality Censorship and free speech are matters of universal concern. But where does free speech end, and where does censorship begin? Gao Xingjian has devoted his diverse body of work to answering such a question. This monograph offers a new way to think about censorship as both a complex social issue and a highly personal experience. The manuscript will be submitted to major university and commercial press such as Columbia University Press, University of Hawai’i Press, Edinburgh University Press, and Cambridge University Press.
2. A book-length study on cultural entrepreneurship in twentieth-century Hong Kong.
Creative Publications 1. Ordinary People [CD]. Hong Kong. IMAGINE IMAGINE IMAGINE RECORDS, Oct 2015. 2. “Ordinary People: Album Trailer.” A Short Film Based on the Music of Chantaiman, Dec 2014. 3. “Megan and Mother.” Postcards From Hong Kong: 10-Minute Play Festival. Mar 2014.
AWARDS, FUNDING, AND FELLOWSHIPS OBTAINED 1. Research Achievement Award, OUHK, 2019 (HKD 20,000/ GBP 1,845) 2. Research Support Award, OUHK, 2019 (HKD 10,000/ GBP 920) 3. Doctoral School Conference Funding, SOAS, 2018 (GBP 500) 4. Elisabeth Croll Scholarship for fieldwork in China, SOAS, 2017 (GBP 1,000) 5. Santander Mobility Award, SOAS, 2016 (GBP 1,000) 6. PhD Research Studentship, SOAS (full scholarship), 2015-2018 (GBP 60,456) 7. Postgraduate Research Studentship, HKBU (full scholarship), 2010-12 (HKD 326,400/ GBP 30,125)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, TALKS, AND SEMINARS Conference Presentations 1. “The Nobel Prize as Censorship.” Literature in the Nobel Era: Theoretical, Archival, and Critical Approaches to the Nobel Prize in Literature. German Literature Archive, Marbach, Germany. 26-29 Aug 2021.
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2. “Escaping Prestige: Transmediality and L’année Gao.” 2021 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Online. 8-11 Apr 2021.
3. “Escaping through Sound: Gao Xingjian’s Absolute Signal.” Music, Sound, and Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Online. Funded by an Indiana University Presidential Arts & Humanities Conference Hosting Grant. 12-14 Feb 2021.
4. “The Nobel Prize, Gao Xingjian, and Transmedia Aesthetics.” 2020 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago, United States. 19-22 Mar 2020. (cancelled due to Covid-19)
5. “Non-Western Nobel Laureates as Counterpublic(s).” Bridging Gaps: Re-Fashioning Stories for Celebrity Counterpublics. Club Quarters–Time Square, New York, United States. 30 Aug-1 Sept 2019.
6. “Escaping In Silence: Gao Xingjian’s Bus Stop.” 2019 MLA International Symposium. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal. 23-25 Jul 2019.
7. “Reflexivity as Gao Xingjian’s Escape from Censorship.” Censorship and Self-censorship – China and Chinese Studies. Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. 8-10 Mar 2019.
8. “Higher Brothers and the Aesthetics of Featuring.” Shifting Undergrounds in East and Southeast Asia: Transformations and Declinations of Cultural Self-Expressions and Communities in Cityscape. National University of Singapore, Singapore. 25-26 Oct 2018.
9. “Revisiting Daoism in Gao Xingjian’s City of the Dead.” 2018 European Association for Chinese Studies Biennial Conference. University of Glasgow, Scotland. 29 Aug-1 Sept 2018.
10. “Insights about the Hong Kong Handover in Gao Xingjian’s The Other Shore.” Association for Asian Studies 2018 Annual Conference. Marriot Wardman Park, Washington, DC, United States. 22-25 Mar 2018.
11. “The Relevance of Gao Xingjian to the Contemporary Hong Kong Theatre Scene.” Hong Kong in Transition: Asian City-to-City Collaboration and Performing Arts Exchange, 1997- 2017. SOAS University of London, United Kingdom. 9-10 Sept 2017.
12. “Warring Two Souls: A Comparative Study of WEB Du Bois’s Double Consciousness and Gao Xingjian’s meiyou zhuyi.” Texts-Vision-Method: Asian and African Area Studies in the Era of Globalization. Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. 14-16 Oct 2016.
13. “‘I Shall Pretend I’m Travelling Abroad’: The Twee-Protest Songs of My Little Airport.” East Asian Popular Culture Conference, University of York. York, United Kingdom. 29 Jan 2016. (co-presented with Jessica Siu-yin Yeung)
14. “Nobrow, No Boundaries.” 2nd Marginalised Mainstream Conference. University of London. London, United Kingdom. 12-13 Sept 2013.
Invited Talks 1. “The Politics and Aesthetics of Featuring in Post-2017 Chinese Hip Hop.” Part of the international funded project Sinophone Borderlands: Interaction at the Edges. Guest Lecture. Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. 8 Mar 2021.
2. “Challenging the Labels in Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain.” KGV School, Hong Kong. 4 Mar 2015.
4 Departmental Seminars 1. “Stan Lai’s Nobrow Theatre.” Stan Lai: Chinese Theatre on the Global Stage. The Open University of Hong Kong. 17 Aug 2019. (Cancelled)
2. “Higher Brothers and the Aesthetics of Featuring.” Research Institute for Digital Culture and Humanities 41st Seminar. The Open University of Hong Kong. 4 Apr 2019.
3. “Why Is It So Difficult For Post-Mao Chinese Literature to Become World Literature?” Critical Forum at Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS) Critical Forum. SOAS University of London. 30 Nov 2016.
Seminar Moderation 1. “Transmedial Creations by Gao Xingjian and Others: An Online Symposium.” Department of Humanities, Language, and Translation, The Open University of Hong Kong. 17 Mar & 30 Mar 2021. (Funded by RGC grant)
2. “Author Talk: Theresia Enzenberger.” Bauhaus: 100 Years Exhibition. The Open University of Hong Kong. 4 Nov 2019.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE The Open University of Hong Kong ENGL A102F Classic American Film (UG) ENGL A103F British and American Short Stories (UG) ENGL A108F English And Popular Song Lyrics (UG) ENGL A236F English-language Media and Popular Culture (UG) ENGL A322F Chinese Literature in English Translation (UG) LANG A887F Critical Discourse Analysis (PG)
SOAS University of London CH 103 History and Culture of China (UG)
HKU SPACE Community College CCEN4006 Introduction to Comparative Literature (HD) EAPPI English for Academic and Professional Purposes I (HD) EAPPII English for Academic and Professional Purposes II (HD) GEIII General English III (HD)
(HD: Higher Diploma; UG: Undergraduate; PG: Taught Postgraduate)
ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY SERVICES 1. Organizer, “Transmedial Creations by Gao Xingjian and Others: An Online Symposium.” The Open University of Hong Kong. 17 & 30 Mar 2021. 2. Organizer, English-speaking Contest, Department of Humanities, Language, and Translation, The Open University of Hong Kong, 2021. 3. Alumni Coordinator, Department of Humanities, Language, and Translation, The Open University of Hong Kong, 2019-20. 4. Co-organizer of Chinese Culture in Global Context, The Open University of Hong Kong, 13- 15 Mar 2019. 5. Member of Student Body, Periodic Programme Review for Department of Music, SOAS University of London, 2017. 6. Member of Organizing Committee, Students’ Conference, HKU SPACE Community College, 2012-13, 2013-14 7. Teaching Assistant, Oxbridge Summer Camp Abroad, 2008.
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COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT/PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 1. Contributor, Time Out Hong Kong 2. Columnist, New Ears Music. http://newears.hk01.com 3. Freelance Translator (Chinese to English)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS 1. European Association for Chinese Studies 2. Modern Languages Association 3. American Comparative Literature Association
LANGUAGES Cantonese: Native Mandarin: Intermediate English: Fluent
OTHER SKILLS • Leading research teams of 5 Research Assistants, 1 Teaching Assistant, and 6 Student Helpers while administering the Faculty Development Scheme funded project at OUHK, 2020-21
• Completed the Core Units of Professional Development in Higher Education Programme (PDHEP) at SOAS (Recognised by the UK HEA, now Advance HE), September, 2016
REFERENCES Prof Rossella FERRARI Prof Michel HOCKX Professor of China Studies Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture Department of East Asian Studies Director, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian University of Vienna Studies, University of Notre Dame Tel: +43-1-4277-43854 Tel: +1 (574) 631-4415 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 2150 Jenkins Nanovic Halls Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2 (Campus) University of Notre Dame 1090 Wien Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Prof Sebastian VEG Professor of Intellectual History of 20th-Century China Director of École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Email: [email protected] EHESS-CRH, GEHM 54 Boulevard Raspail 75006 Paris
Dr Garfield LAU Assistant Professor in English and Comparative Literature Programme Leader, English and Comparative Literature Programme The Open University of Hong Kong Tel: +852 2768 6703 Email: [email protected] 30 Shepherd Road The Open University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
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