Dear “Insert Your Name”, Once you have left home, nothing will ever be the same. You will experience many of your first times. You might be wide-eyed or excited, homesick or disappointed, but you will probably taste them all. It was three years ago when I first left home for Turku, Finland, for an exchange…
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Announcement: Members of the ENG Department will read at Hong Kong’s #WRITERSRESIST
Throughout the US and in other countries, writers are organizing their own Writers Resist events on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, January 15, 2017. Invited speakers will read from a curated selection of diverse writers’ voices that speak to the ideals of Democracy and free expression. The public is encouraged to attend. —WRITERS RESIST On…
“Traversing Urban and Rural Space: Sexuality and Bodily Presence in Under the Skin (2014)” by Suzanne Lai
The movie is divided by the moment of the woman’s awakening (Scarlett Johansson) when she, for the first time, is under her own gaze. She sees her own reflection in the mirror on the wall. That is the moment of epiphany. The group of extraterrestrial beings she belongs shares the same gender concept as human…
Department of English, Hong Kong Baptist University 