Photograph by Mew Chu Editor’s note: Heidi Huang, Lecturer in the Department of English, has published a number of articles in journals including Modern Language Quarterly, Literature Compass, Critical Arts: South North Cultural and Media Studies and Neohelicon. Below is an excerpt from “Constellating World Literature”, first published in Neohelicon. An analogy can be drawn between astrological constellations and…
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Ongoing Moments: Heidi Huang
Ongoing Moments: A series in which teaching staff and students from the English Department respond to a photograph of their choice. [Read all entries.] [Revisit the “Interrogative” series.] My Collection Of Notebooks Only a few pages used in each. Some have been there for years. Some new arrivals. “In the beginning was the written…
“Intersection Collaborative Learning Project” — A Showcase of the Best Works (with an introduction by Heidi Huang and Holden Liang Qichao)
This month, students from the English Department’s Master’s programme in Literary and Comparative Studies (MALCS) joined the students from the undergraduate course Hong Kong Stories (taught by Heidi Huang) in an “Intersection Collaborative Learning Project”. The collaborative field trip which they undertook throughout Hong Kong was inspired by local modernist writer Liu Yichang’s short story…
Umbrella Uprising — What We Think
. I have run out of umbrellas to lend to my students, braving all weathers, all scorn, for a future they no longer have any option but to believe in. Now it is my heart I would shelter them with. I do so happily, without reservation. They were the first, and will be the last,…
“The Institute for World Literature 2014 at the City University of Hong Kong: A Reflection” by Heidi Huang
The IWL organisers and the MALCS participants: From right to left: IWL local assistant Jiang Zhuyu, MALCS student James Au Kin-pong, MALCS lecturer Dr. Heidi Huang Yu, IWL Assistant director Dr. Delia Ungureanu, IWL Director Prof. David Damrosch, MALCS students Candy Li Yalin and Yolander Tang Yingying This summer, I was fortunate enough to attend the…
The Interrogative Mood: Questions with Heidi Huang
The following questions are taken from Padgett Powell’s The Interrogative Mood. If you could emigrate to any country in the world and support yourself there, which country would it be? Germany – for the good beer and the way German children are taught. Is there a particular odour or situation guaranteed to nauseate you? People squabbling…
“The Guess Who Quiz” by Heidi Huang
Click image to enlarge. From left to right: Florence Leung, Jason S Polley, Douglas Berman, Heidi Huang, Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, Jason Lee, Julia Wang, Ruth Hung and Stuart Christie. This “Guess Who Quiz” is actually ‘stolen’ from our students’ inspired descriptions of each teacher during our farewell dinner held on 2 May. When perusing the joyful photographs of that…
Department of English, Hong Kong Baptist University 