The School of Modern Languages and Cultures has an active research culture that draws Faculty and Graduate Students into collaborative projects.
Our key research interests are in the cultural, anthropological, political, philosophical, historical and literary aspects of diverse countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas.
We explore the ancient, modern and contemporary contexts of social and cultural change around the globe and publish our research in diverse languages of the world.
This breadth of regions, languages, cultures and disciplines is the foundation of the School’s research strength in interdisciplinary and comparative research projects.
The School of Modern Languages and Cultures has:
• a vibrant research seminar series (all welcome) that operates during university semesters on Wednesday afternoons 4.30-6.00 pm.
• an active research mentoring program for HKU academic colleagues and graduate students.
• regular international conferences and workshops.
• faculty with publications in top academic journals and with prestigious publishing houses
Title | Staff Name | Type | Start date | End date | amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Negotiating Spirituality and Urban Space in Jiangbeicheng: Local History, Religion and the Making of Modern China | Li Ji | ECS | January 1,2018 | June 30, 2021 | 523056 |
Early Career Scheme Award from Research Grants Council, Government of Hong Kong | Poch Daniel Taro | ECS | 2016 | 2017 | 450000 |
Epidemic Disease and Medical Innovation in Early Modern Japan | ECS | January 1, 2017 | June 30, 2020 | 378600 | |
Production of Popular Fiction: Romance and Family Themes in Modern and Contemporary Korea | Kim Su Yun | ECS | December 1, 2014 | May 30, 2018 | |
The Fall of Neoliberalism in the Chilean Post-Dictatorship Novel (2000-2020) | Fernández Melleda Bárbara | ECS | January 2023 | December 2025 | 415,000 |
Traumatic Histories and the National Imagination: Narrative Construction in National Memory Museums in the United States | Gruenewald Tim | ECS | July 1, 2016 | April 30, 2019 | 340000 |
Inventing Lives: Fictional Artistic Practice in the Shadow of Cold War Hollywood | Steinberg Monica | ECS | January 1, 2021 | December 31, 2023 | 474000 |
Louis Cha Fund of Faculty of Arts and Strategic Research Theme, China-West Studies Fund, Co-PI | Kim Su Yun | Faculty of Arts | |||
Abe Fellow, ocial Science Research Council, American Council of Learned Societies, and The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership | Fellowship | 1999 | |||
King's/HKU Fellowship Awards 2019-20 | Wong John D. | Fellowship | August 31, 2018 | Auguest 31, 2021 | 50000 |
Canon Foundation in Europe Research Fellowship | Poch Daniel Taro | Fellowship | 2010 | 2011 | 265000 |
Asia Leadership Fellow, nternational House of Japan and The Japan Foundation Asia Center | Fellowship | 2003 |
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
SMLC Book Series with Hong Kong University Press
Series Editor: Dixon H. W. Wong
The Global Connections series explores the movement of ideas, people, technologies, capital and goods across national and regional borders. Books in the series reveal how these interconnections have the power to produce new global forms of cultures, politics, identities and economies. Seeking to explore the dynamics of change, the series includes both historical and contemporary topics. It focuses on interactions between the world's diverse cultures through the production of new interdisciplinary knowledge.
Global Connections welcomes submissions to the series from authors working on sole authored or edited volumes. The series has published in Chinese and English at this point but welcomes authors working in other languages as well.
Contact the Editor, Dixon Wong in the first instance to discuss your proposal.
