CHRISTIE Stuart C. F.

Head and Professor

3411 7153

OEW 1112

scfchris@hkbu.edu.hk

Qualifications

Ph.D. in Literature, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1998
M.A. in Literature, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1993
B.A. in English and History, Oberlin College (Ohio), 1989

Research Interests

E. M. Forster Studies
Native/Indigenous American Studies
Twentieth-Century British and American Novel
Formalism in the Age of Deconstruction

I am presently interested in supervising PhD students rather than MPhil students, and Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) calibre students in particular. Applicants interested in working with me should present quality proposals via the HKBU Graduate School website on comparative literary ecocriticism and its emerging discourses (proposals bringing literary data analysis closer to home in the sinosphere, as well as in Asia more broadly, are particularly welcome), preferring the exploration of impacts reaching beyond the West and the English language. I am also accepting proposals on the problematics of “thing theory” in the age of speculative realism and correlationism, including post-Marxist approaches to being, objects, and identities discrepant of neoliberalism. I welcome post/formalist approaches to textuality while maintaining an iron-clad commitment to literary form. I am also an avid learner around science fictions as they are presently emerging in anglophone discourses throughout the globe.

Selected Publications

“E. M. Forster among the Ruins”. Affective Ecologies of the Modern Body, ed. Kara Watts, Molly Hall, and Robin Hackett. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2019, 55-78.

“E. M. Forster, Lionel Trilling, and the American Turn, 1942-1953.” The Wenshan Review. vol.11, no. 2, 2018, pp. 1-26.

“Umbrellas and Bottles: Teaching Welty’s Mythology in the Hong Kong Classroom.” Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty, eds., Julia Eichelberger and Mae Claxton. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Miss, 2018, pp. 147-157.

“Pearl S. Buck’s FBI File, 1938-1945.” The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945, special issue: International Intrigue: Plotting Espionage as Cultural Artifact. Guest eds., Phyllis Lassner and Will May. vol. 13, 2017.

5. “Empson the Space Man: Literary Modernism Makes the Scalar Turn.” Comparative Literature: East and West vol. 1, no. 1, 2017, pp. 25-39.

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