PUBLICATIONS
Books
Wilfred Owen's Voices: Language and Community (Oxford: Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 1993) 346 pp
George Orwell Writers and their Work series (Tavistock: Northcote House, 2003) 112 pp.
Eastern Figures: Orient and Empire in British Writing (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008) 258 pp
Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession, and Practice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) 273 pp
Orwell and Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022) 205 pp
SCHOLARLY EDITION
Arthur Conan Doyle, Memories and Adventures [1924], ed. Douglas Kerr (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021), 542 pp
Edited volumes
Kanglade jingpin xuan [Conrad's Major Tales], selected and ed. Zhu Jiong-Qiang and Douglas Kerr (Shangdong, PRC: Shangdong Arts Publishing, 1999), 465 pp
Cross-Cultural Communications: Literature, Language, Ideas, Special Issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 9 nos 1 and 2 (1999), eds. Tong Qingsheng and Douglas Kerr, 163 pp
Critical Zone 1: A Forum for Chinese and Western Knowledge, eds. Q. S. Tong, Wang Shouren and Douglas Kerr (Hong Kong and Nanjing: HKU Press and Nanjing University Press, 2004) 233 pp
Critical Zone 2: A Forum for Chinese and Western Knowledge, eds. Q. S. Tong, Wang Shouren and Douglas Kerr (Hong Kong and Nanjing: HKU Press and Nanjing University Press, 2006) 307 pp
A Century of Travels in China: Critical Essays on Travel Writing from the 1840s to the 1940s, eds. Douglas Kerr and Julia Kuehn (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2007) 232 pp
Critical Zone 3: A Forum for Chinese and Western Knowledge, eds. Douglas Kerr, Q.S. Tong and Wang Shouren (Hong Kong and Nanijing: HKU Press and Nanijing University Press, 2008) 236 pp
Victoriographies 11:3 (2021), Special Issue on Conan Doyle and London, eds. Douglas Kerr and Jonathan Cranfield, 344 pp
Articles
Wilfred Owen and the Social Question', English Literature in Transition 34 no 2 (1991) 182-95
'David Henry Hwang and the Revenge of Madam Butterfly', The Quill: Asian Writers' League Journal 3 no 1 (July 1991) 13-25 [reprint]. Also reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism vol. 196 (Detroit: Gale Research, 2005) 168-74
'The Disciplines of the Wars: Army Training and the Language of Wilfred Owen', Modern Language Review 87 no 2 (April 1992) 286-299
'Brothers in Arms: Family Language in Wilfred Owen', Review of English Studies (New Series) 43 no 172 (1992) 518-34
'"Strange Meeting" Again', Connotations 3 no 2 (1993-4) 173-85
'Orientations: James Fenton and Indochina', Contemporary Literature 35 no 3 (Fall 1994) 476-91
'Crowds, Colonialism, and Conrad's Lord Jim', The Conradian 18 no 2 (Autumn 1994) 49-64
'Disorientations: Auden and Isherwood's China', Literature and History (third series) 5 no 2 (Autumn 1996) 53-67
'Colonial Habitats: Orwell and Woolf in the Jungle', English Studies 78 no 2 (March 1997) 149-61
[reprinted in A View of our Own: Ethnocentric Perspectives in Literature (Kuala Lumpur: Fakulti Pengajian Bahasa, UKM, 1996) 234-47]
'Stories of the East: Leonard Woolf and the Genres of Colonial Discourse', English Literature in Transition 41 no 3 (1998) 261-78
'Conrad and "The Three Ages of Man"', The Conradian 23 no 2 (Autumn 1998) 27-44
'Orwell, Animals and the East', Essays in Criticism 49 no 3 (July1999) 234-55
'A Passage to Kowloon Tong: Paul Theroux and Hong Kong 1997', Journal of Commonwealth Literature 34 no 2 (1999) 75-84
'Significant Others: Identity and Difference in Cross-Cultural Communication', [with Q. S. Tong], Cross-Cultural Communications: Literature, Language, Ideas, Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 9 nos. 1 and 2 (1999), eds. Q. S. Tong and Douglas Kerr, 1-11
'Three Ways of Going Wrong: Kipling, Conrad, Coetzee', Modern Language Review 95:1 (January 2000) 1-10
'Yingguo xiaoshuo yu fanzui xianchang [British Fiction at the Scene of the Crime]', trans. Wang Lixing, Waiguo Wenxue [Foreign Literature] 2000 no. 2 (March 2000) 65-71
'Timothy Mo's Man Sundae and other overseas workers', Journal of Commonwealth Literature 36 no 2 (2001) 15-28
'History and Theirstories: a review of some recent Australian and Asian fiction' [Review essay on contemporary fiction] Westerly 46 (2001) 190-203.
'Orwell's BBC Broadcasts: Colonial Discourse and the Rhetoric of Propaganda', Textual Practice 16 no 3 (Winter 2002) 473-490
'Joseph Conrad's Magic Circles', Essays in Criticism 53 no. 4 (October 2003) 345-65
'Not knowing the Oriental: ignorance and power in the colonial East', New Zealand Journal of Oriental Studies 5:2 (December 2003) 33-46
'Orwell, India and the BBC', Literature and History third series, 13:1 (Spring 2004) 43-57
'The Quiet American and the Novel', Studies in the Novel, 38:1 (Spring 2006) 95-107
'You shixue dao xiucixue zaizhouhuilai: wenxue yu huayu' ('Poetics to Rhetoric and back: literature and discourse'), Waiguo Wenxue [Foreign Literature] 2006 no. 4 (July 2006) 28-32
'The Quiet American and the Novel', Studies in the Novel, 38:1 (Spring 2006) 95-107
"Stealing Victory?: The Strange Case of Conrad and Buchan", Conradiana 40:1 (Spring 2008), 147-63
'Chinese Boxes: Conrad's Typhoon and the History of the Chinese', Clio 39:1 (2009) 1-24
'The Straight Left: Sport and the Nation in Arthur Conan Doyle', Victorian Literature and Culture 38:1 (March 2010) 187-206
“Arthur Conan Doyle and the Consumption Cure”, Literature and History third series 19:2 (2010) 36-51
‘Joseph Conrad’s Last Essays, Youth, Heart of Darkness & The End of the Tether, and Suspense’ (review essay), Editionen in der Kritik 5 (2012) 55-63
“Orwell and Kipling: Global Visions”, Orienting Orwell: Asian and Global Perspectives on George Orwell. Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 40:1 (March 2014) 35-50
“The Secret Secret Sharer”, Conradian 39 no. 2 (Autumn 2014) 19-30
“Conrad and the Comic Turn”, Victorian Literature and Culture 43:1 (March 2015) 149-68
“Kipling in China: Empires of Noise”, Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, Special issue: The Victorians and China 20:1 (2015) 41-49 http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/AJVS/index
“Conan Doyle’s Challenger Tales and the End of the World”, English Literature in Transition 59:1 (2016) 3-24
“Conrad and the Immigrant: the Drama of Hospitality”, Review of English Studies 67 (2016) 334-48
[with Johannes M. M. Chan] “Academic Freedom, Political Interference, and Public Accountability: The Hong Kong Experience” Journal of Academic Freedom vol. 7 (2016)
“George Orwell’s Conrad”, George Orwell Studies vol 1 (2016) 21-36
“George Orwell and the Police”, Clio 46:1 (Fall 2016) 73-96
“Law and Race in George Orwell”, Law and Literature 29:2 (2017) 311-28
“Joseph Conrad and the East”, New Eastern Europe XXVIII 5 (Sept-Oct 2017) 202-07
“The Strange Case of the Creeping Man”, Journal of Stevenson Studies 14 (2018), 176-170.
“Performance and Spectation in Orwell’s Burmese Days”, George Orwell Studies 3:1 (2018) 37-50
“Names in Burmese Days: A Fantasia”, George Orwell Studies 3:2 (2019), 44-46.
“Joseph Conrad and the Knitting Machine”, English Literature in Transition 63:3 (2020), 333-345
“Two Strong Men: Conrad’s Gaspar Ruiz and Eugen Sandow”, Conradian, 45:2 (Autumn 2020), 1-15
“The Reader in the Labyrinth of Conrad’s ‘The Brute’”, Conradiana 51:1-2 (2019), 45-57
“Conan Doyle’s Desert Drama”, The Magic Door: Friends of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection 22:1 (Summer 2021), 1-6
“‘We Shall Have to Learn how to Live with Ghosts’: A Review of John Minford’s Hong Kong Literature Series”, Cha 2021, https://chajournal.blog/2021/10/04/hong-kong-literature/
“Introduction”, Victoriographies 11:3 (2021), Special Issue on Conan Doyle and London, eds. Douglas Kerr and Jonathan Cranfield, 219-26.
“Conan Doyle: Man of Letters, Man About Town”, Victoriographies 11:3 (2021), Special Issue on Conan Doyle and London, eds. Douglas Kerr and Jonathan Cranfield, 227-41.
“Reflections on ‘St Andrew’s Day 1935’”, George Orwell Studies 7:1 (2022), 53-60.
“Conan Doyle and the Rhetoric of Genre”, English: Journal of the English Association, 71:275 (Winter 2022), 347–60.
“Conrad and the Ghost”, Conradian 48:1 (Spring 2023), 50-67
“Arthur Conan Doyle, Eugenics, and the Hand of God”, Literature and History 32:1 (May 2023), 46-62
Chapters in books
Literature and Language', English Language/Literature (Hong Kong: SSETA, 1988) 26-37
'David Henry Hwang and the Revenge of Madam Butterfly', Asian Voices in English, ed. Mimi Chan and Roy Harris (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1991) 119-130
'Teaching the Orient', in Teaching English as a Second Language: The Role of Literature, ed. Jenny Yuen (Macau: University of Macau, 1992) 58-70
'Wilfred Owen: The Poet in his Time', Companion to Literature, ed. Sandra Adams (Macau: University of Macau, 1996) 140-8
'Introduction' to Edmund Blunden, A Hong Kong House: Poems 1951-1961 (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2001) 99-106
'A Passage to Kowloon Tong: Paul Theroux and Hong Kong 1997', Sharing a Commonwealth ed. C. S. Lim and others (Kuala Lumpur: ACLALS and University of Malaya, 2001) 204-18 [reprint]
'Journey to a War: "a test for men from Europe"', in W. H. Auden: A Legacy ed. David Garrett Izzo, (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press and South Carolina UP, 2002) 275-96
'Introduction: Difference and Convergence in Globalization', [with Q. S. Tong] Critical Zone 1: A Forum for Chinese and Western Knowledge, eds. Q. S. Tong, Wang Shouren and Douglas Kerr (Hong Kong and Nanjing: HKU Press and Nanjing University Press, 2004) 1-17
'Afterword' to Martin Alexander, Clearing Ground (Hong Kong: Chameleon Press, 2004) 105-10
Notes to Rudyard Kipling, Kim, Introduction by Pankaj Mishra, Random House Modern Library (New York: Random House, 2004) 289-306
'Introduction', [with Q. S. Tong and Wang Shouren] Critical Zone 2: A Forum for Chinese and Western Knowledge, eds. Q. S. Tong, Wang Shouren and Douglas Kerr (Hong Kong and Nanjing: HKU Press and Nanjing University Press, 2006) 1-8
'Introduction' (with Julia Kuehn), A Century of Travels in China: Critical Essays on Travel Writing from the 1840s to the 1940s, eds. Douglas Kerr and Julia Kuehn (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2007) 1-12
'Agnes Smedley: The Fellow-Traveler's Tales', A Century of Travels in China: Critical Essays on Travel Writing from the 1840s to the 1940s, eds. Douglas Kerr and Julia Kuehn (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2007) 163-76
'Ruins in the Jungle: Nature and Narrative', Asian Crossings: Travel Writing on China, Japan and Southeast Asia, eds. Steve Clark and Paul Smethurst (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008) 131-40
‘Introduction’, [with Q. S. Tong and Wang Shouren] Critical Zone 3: A Forum for Chinese and Western Knowledge, eds. Douglas Kerr, Q. S. Tong and Wang Shouren (Hong Kong and Nanjing: Hong Kong University Press and Nanjing University Press, 2008) 1-11
‘Locating Louise Ho: The Place of English Poetry in Hong Kong’, Critical Zone 3: A Forum for Chinese and Western Knowledge, eds. Douglas Kerr, Q. S. Tong and Wang Shouren (Hong Kong and Nanjing: Hong Kong University Press and Nanjing University Press, 2008) 15-36
“Afterword”, Incense Tree: Collected Poems of Louise Ho (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009) 155-62
“‘A Fraud called John Buchan’: Buchan, Joseph Conrad and Literary Theft”, Reassessing John Buchan: Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps, ed. Kate Macdonald (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009) 141-52
“Louise Ho and the Local Turn: The Place of English Poetry in Hong Kong”, Hong Kong Culture: Word and Image, ed. Kam Louie (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010) 75-96.
‘John Buchan, Myth and Modernism’, John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity, ed. Kate Macdonald and Nathan Waddell (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013) 141-54
“Approaching Conrad through Theory: The Secret Sharer”, New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad, ed. J. H. Stape (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) 44-57
“Going About: Conrad’s Progress in A Personal Record”, Outposts of Progress: Joseph Conrad, Modernism, and Postcolonialism, eds. Gail Fincham, Jeremy Hawthorn and Jakob Lothe (Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press, 2015) 156-70
“Holmes into Challenger: the Dark Investigator”, Sherlock Holmes in Context, ed. Sam Naidu (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) 165-85
“The Virtual Geographies of Nineteen Eighty-Four”, The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four, ed. Nathan Waddell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 37-50
