Karen Fang
English
Professor
Office: 222D Roy Cullen Building
Phone: 713-743-2949
Email: kfang@uh.edu
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.
Critical Studies Courses
- ENGL 3358 - Hong Kong Cinema
- ENGL 4373 - Film, Text, and Politics (“Vision and Power”)
- ENGL 4397 - Selected Topics in Film, Literature, and Culture (“Surveillance Futures”)
- ENGLI 7396 - Theories of the Moving Image [offered Spring 2018]