Dr Jenny Kwok received her PhD in English Literary Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She specializes in the history of the English discipline, the liberal tradition of university education, the nineteenth to early-twentieth-century British and Anglo-Irish literature, The Troubles literature, The Inklings studies, and digital humanities. She has published on Seamus Heaney and the traditional Irish pilgrimage site Station Island. The book chapter was a postcolonial discussion of how the poet overcame his troubled dual identity as an Anglo-Irish writer.

Dr Kwok is currently working on articles related to the application of digital humanities in the discipline of English literary studies, especially through the visualisation digital tools, and exploring the definition of Irishness as part of the world literary discourse. Her monograph in progress titled Re-Considering C.S. Lewis brings to light Lewis’ influence in the formation of the English syllabus of the Oxford English School during the interwar years, and how this syllabus has influenced the English syllabus today. The monograph is qualitative research supported by archival documents at the Bodleian Library, the University of Oxford, and oral history.

Dr Kwok was a Scholar in Residence of C.S. Lewis Foundation, Oxford, the recipient of the prestigious Sin Wai Kin CUHK Golden Jubilee Scholarship in Arts, History and Philosophy, and judge of the HKSAR Outstanding Students’ Union Selection.