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CHOW-QUESADA, Emily S. M.

Associate Professor


3411 7806
OEM 1118
echowquesada@hkbu.edu.hk
Qualifications
  • PhD English (Literary Studies), Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • MPhil English (Literary Studies), Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • MA English (Literary Studies), Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • BA (Hons) English Language and Literature (Comparative Literature), Hong Kong Baptist University
     
Research Interests
  • Anglophone African Literature
  • Literature and Postcolonialism
  • Utopian and Dystopian Studies
  • Anglophone Hong Kong Literature
  • Representations of “Blackness

Selected Publications
  • The Zimbabwean Maverick: Dambudzo Marechera and Utopian Thinking. London: Routledge, 2023. DOI: 10.4324/b23075
  • Echo: Black Women Artists in Hong Kong, 2023. [Documentary Film]
  • “Canonising the Mundane: Narrating and Transgressing the Nigerian Queer Self/Selves in Embracing My Shadow (2020) and Lives of Great Men (2017).” Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism: Special Issue on Struggle & Hustle: Queer Nonfiction Prose. 42:3 (2023): 298-326. DOI: 10.1080/01440357.2022.2145837
  • “Redefining the Female Body: the re-emergence of beauty pageants in Hong Kong” in L. Getty and J. Vice (ed). Gendered/Transgendered Bodies in Popular Culture Since 2010, McFarland, (Forthcoming 2023).
  • “Racialised Masculinities: The “Flawed” AfroAsian Brothers in Rush Hour Series” in R. Kumar and S. Lee (ed). Queer and Femme Gazes in AfroAsian Visual Culture, Palgrave, (Forthcoming 2023).
  • “Cognitive Re-territorialisation and Spatial De-territorialisation: the “cramped space” in selected post-2019 literary works of Hong Kong” in M. Ki and W. Liang (ed). Hong Kong Discourse: Surveillance, Resistance, Transformation, Brill, (Forthcoming 2023).