WONG K.Y.

Wong Kin Yuen

Professor & Head of Department
Director, Technoscience Culture Research and Development Center

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego
M.A. in English Literature, University of Redlands
Diploma in English, Hong Kong Baptist College

Courses Taught

Graduate Level:
The Making of Contemporary Culture
Basic Issues in Contemporary Culture
Comparative Poetics
Literary Theory

Undergraduate Level:
Technology and Culture
Science Fiction in Literature and Films
Introduction to Cultural Studies
American Literature
Comparative Literature in East and West
World Literatures
Contemporary Literature
Ecology, Environmental Ethics and Literature

Research Interests

Intercultural Studies
Technoscience Culture
Ecology and Environmental Ethics
Science Fiction
Urban Studies
Consumer Culture
Contemporary Literature

Selected Publications

Books

Wong Kin Yuen co-edited with Gary Westfahl & Amy Kit-sze Chan. (2005) World Weavers: Globalization, Science Fiction, and the Cybernetic Revolution. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
王建元著．(2006)《球場大朝聖-透視體育運動文化》，香港，天窗，120頁
王建元著．(2002)《文化機械人》，台北，書林，236頁
王建元著．(2001)《文學文化與詮釋》，台北，書林，226頁
王建元著．(1998)《現象詮釋學與中西雄渾觀》(Phenomenological Hermeneutics and the Concept of the Sublime)，台北，東大，226頁

Articles in English

Wong, Kin Yuen. (2000) "Urbanity, Cyberpunk and the Posthuman in Taiwan SF," delivered as keynote speech at 8th Quadrennial International Conference on Comparative Literature, Taipei. Tamkang Review Vol. XXXI, No.3 (Winter 2000). 71-102.

Wong, Kin Yuen. (2000) "On the Edge of Spaces: Hong Kong Cityscape, Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell" in Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 27, Part 1 March 2000. 1-21.

Wong, Kin Yuen. (1998) "Sight Being Site: an Analysis of Hong Kong Times Square" in Hong Kong Cultural Studies Bulletin. Published by the Hong Kong Cultural Studies Programme.

Wong, Kin Yuen. (1996) "The Poetics of Imagination in Classical Chinese Painting: A Phenomenological Approach," in Proceedings of the XIIth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association. Ed. William Peer and Elrud Ibsch, 546-554.

Wong, Kin Yuen. (1995) "Hermeneutics and Translation", an entry in An Encyclopedia of Translation, ed. Chan Sin-wai and David E. Pollard. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, pp.333-346.

Articles in Chinese

王建元著．(2000)〈詮釋學與翻譯〉《翻譯再思－　可譯與不可譯之間》．台北：書林，頁95-124.
王建元著．(2000)〈梅露彭迪的知覺藝術與女性主義的身體論述〉，台北：《中外文學》2000年5月．第28卷.第12期，頁6-40。
王建元著．(1998)〈《科學怪人》一百八十年 ─ 典範轉移‧女性主義科學‧文化研究〉，台北：《幼獅文藝》 1998年8月1 日. 頁62-81.
王建元著．(1997)〈景觀文化‧科幻電影機械人‧性別政治〉，台北：《幼獅文藝》.1997年1月.頁23-26.
王建元著．(1995)〈當代台灣科幻小說中的都市空間〉,《當代台灣都市文學論》.鄭明琍編‧ 台北：時報，頁231-261.