PUBLICATIONS
monographs:
Map-ability: The Imperative to Map in Contemporary Literature and Culture (in progress).
Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire. London & New York: Continuum, 2012.
Edited Collections and Special Issues of journals:
The Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adaptations in the Twenty-First Century. Co-edited with Prof. Brandon Chua. London & New York: Routledge, 2023.
Neo-Victorian Heterotopias. Special issue of Humanities. Co-edited with Prof. Marie-Luise Kohlke and Dr. Akira Suwa. 11.1 (2022).
Neo-Victorian Asia. Special issue of Neo-Victorian Studies, 11.2 (2019).
Thatcher & After: Margaret Thatcher and her afterlife in contemporary culture. Co-edited with Louisa Hadley. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Journal articles:
“Moving Islands: Thinking with the Archipelago in Hong Kong.” Verge: Studies in Global Asia. 11.1 (2025).
“Heterotopic and Neo-Victorian Affinities: Introducing the Special Issue on Neo-Victorian Heterotopias.” Humanities: Special Issue: Neo-Victorian Heterotopias. 11.1 (2022) https://doi.org/10.3390/h11010008
“Heterotopic Heritage in Hong Kong: Tai Kwun and Neo-Victorian Carceral Space.” Humanities: Special Issue: Neo-Victorian Heterotopias. 11.1 (2022) https://doi.org/10.3390/h11010012
“Maps and Mapping Practices in Post-reunification Hong Kong.”Cultural Critique, 113 (2021): 103 - 130
“Temporal Rifts in Hong Kong: the Slow Arts of Protest.” ASAP/Journal, 4.3 Oct. (2019): 619 – 644.
“‘Last Empress’ Fiction and Asian Neo-Victorianism”. Neo-Victorian Studies: Special Issue: Neo-Victorian Asia, 11.2 (2019): 64 – 90.
“Introduction to Neo-Victorian Asia: An Inter-imperial Approach”. Neo-Victorian Studies: Special Issue: Neo-Victorian Asia, 11.2 (2019): 1 – 17.
“Small steps towards an ethos of partnership: a focus group on ‘homework’.” International Journal of Students as Partners 1 (2), 2017. https://doi.org/10.15173/ijsap.v1i2.3198
“Faculty-student engagement in teaching observation and assessment: a Hong Kong initiative,” Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 41.8 (2015): 1193 - 1205.
“Victorian maids and neo-Victorian labour in Kaoru Mori’s Emma: A Victorian Romance,” Neo-Victorian Studies: Special Issue: Neo-Victorianism and Feminism: New Approaches, 6.2 (2013): 40 – 63.
“I think it’s really about us:” Review of Lisa See’s Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Wayne Wang’s film adaptation. Neo-Victorian Studies, 4.2 (2011): 191-202 (review essay).
“From having it all to away from it all:” Post-feminism in Posy Simmonds’s graphic novel, Tamara Drewe. College Literature, 38.2 (2011): 45 – 65.
“Postimperial landscapes: Psychogeography and Englishness in Alan Moore’s graphic novel From Hell.”Cultural Critique, 63 (2006): 99 – 121.
“Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs and the trauma of convictism.” Antipodes: A North American Journal for Australian Literature, December, 17.2 (2003): 124 – 132.
Book chapters:
“Empire Fictions.” Handbook on Neo-Victorianism, eds. Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben. Amsterdam: Brill. Forthcoming, 2025.
“Translating Pedagogical Partnership in/to Academic Staff Development in the Global South” with Alison Cook-Sather, Amrita Kaur, and Tayyaba Tamim. Academic Staff Development: Disruptions, Complexities, Change, eds. Nalini Chitanand and Shoba Rathilal. South Africa: African Sun Media (2024).
“The Child, Public Housing and Public Space in Yeung Hok-Tat’s How Blue Was My Valley”. Routledge Companion of Literary Urban Studies, ed. Lieven Ameel. London: Routledge (2022).
“The Geography Helps”: Affective Geographies and Maps in A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers. Re-mapping Homeland: Affective Geographies and Cultures of the Chinese Diaspora, eds. Robert T. Tally Jr. and Melody Yunzi Li. Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies series, Houndsmill Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2022).
“Asian Masculinity and Whiteness in Cassandra Clare’s Infernal Devices Trilogy”. The Victorian Period in 21st Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature, eds. Sara K. Day and Sonya Sawyer-Fritz. London & New York: Routledge (2018).
Reprinted in Race in Young Adult Dystopian and Speculative Fiction, eds. Miranda Green-Barteet and Meghan Gilbert-Hickey. University of Mississippi Press (2020).
“Politicizing Maps and Emotion: Transforming Cities, Transforming Texts”. Transforming Cities: Narratives of Urban Change in the 19th and 21st Centuries, eds. Nora Plesske, Monika Pietrzak-Franger and Eckart Voigts. Universitatsverlag Heidelberg (2017).
“Adapt Re-use: Hong Kong’s neo-Victorian spaces,” Neo-Victorian Cities: Reassessing Urban Politics and Poetics, eds. Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben. Amsterdam: Brill (2015).
“The Neo-Victorian-At-Sea: Towards a Global Memory of the Victorian,” Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture: Immersions and Revisitations, eds. Nadine Boehm and Susanne Gruss, London & New York: Routledge (2014).
