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Karen Fang

Professor

  • Phone: (713) 743-2949
  • Email: kfang@uh.edu
  • Office: 222D Roy Cullen Building

 

Biography

Karen Fang is Professor in the Department of English, and founder and chair of the CLASS initiative in Media and the Moving Image. A scholar of literature as well as film, Karen Fang is interested in literary and visual narrative under conditions of global capitalism. Her books include Arresting Cinema: Surveillance in Hong Kong Film (Stanford University Press 2017); Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs (University of Virginia Press 2010); and John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow (Hong Kong University Press 2004). She also is a regular contributor to the nationally distributed public radio series, The Engines of Our Ingenuity. A firm believer in art’s value for civic engagement, Fang is a frequent speaker and collaborator with museums and film festivals around the world. She is currently at work on a biography about Chinese immigrant artist and Disney Legend, Tyrus Wong.

Education

  • Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
  • B.A., University of Pennsylvania

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Publications

  • Arresting Cinema: Surveillance in Hong Kong Film (Stanford, 2017)
  • Surveillance in Asian Cinema: Under Eastern Eyes (Routledge, 2017)
  • Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs (University of Virginia Press, 2010)
  • John Woo's A Better Tomorrow (Hong Kong University Press, 2004)

Research Interests

British Romantic literature, film studies,surveillance, imperial history, cultural studies

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Teaching

Recent Courses

  • ENGL 3315 The Romantic Movement
  • ENGL 3358 Hong Kong Cinema (Selected Topics)
  • ENGL 4397 Surveillance Films (Selected Topics in Literature and Film)
  • ENGL 7396 Theories of the Movies Image (Selected Topics)
  • ENGL 8356 English Romanticism (Later)
  • ENGL 8386 Surveillance and Orientalism (Topics in Postcolonial Studies)

 

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