Assistant Professor

PhD in Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong
MA in Literary and Cultural Studies, The University of Hong Kong
B Eng (Hons) in Civil Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Courses Taught

Modern Asian Fiction
Victorian Literature
Contemporary Literature
English Writing

Research Interests

European and American literature and culture
Chinese classic literature
Hong Kong literature and culture
Critical theories including gender-theory, psychoanalytic criticism and deconstruction
Architecture and the City

Publications

Monograph

Lo, Louis. Male Jealousy: Literature and Film (London: Continuum, 2008)

 

Reviews

Review of Jonathan Culler's The Literary in Theory (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007) in Modern Language Review 102.4 (October 2007)

 

Articles

勞維俊。〈解讀《餃子》的誘惑〉，《男女胴體》，第一期（2005年11月）：頁80-81。
[ Lo, Wai Chun. "The Seduction of Interpreting Fruit Chan's Dumpling." fe/male bodies 1 (Nov 2005): 80-81. <http://femalebodies.hk.st/>]

 

Collaborative books and articles

Louis Lo and Jeremy Tambling. Walking Macao, Reading the Baroque. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008. (In press)

Louis Lo and Jeremy Tambling. ‘Excess Structures: On Reading Jin Ping Mei’. Textual Practice. (In press)

 

Published Photography

75 B/W photographs in Jeremy Tambling. Going Awry: Dickens and London. London: Longman, 2008. (In press)

 

Creative Works

勞維俊。〈笑靨〉，收入張佩思編：《文窗：理工文藝創作比賽（八九至九五年）得獎作品選集》，香港：香港理工大學學生會學生報編輯委員會，1996 年，頁 117-118。
[" A Smile." Wen Chuang: Hong Kong Polytechnic University Creative Writing Competition. Ed. Zhang Peisi (Hong Kong: Press Committee, Students' Union, HK Polytechnic University, 1996) 117-118.]

勞維俊。〈吾妹艾美〉，《文窗：理工文藝創作比賽（八九至九五年）得獎作品選集》，頁 130-138。
["My Sister Amy." Wen Chuang 130-138.]

International Conferences

‘Reading Dickens, Photographing London’. Literary London: Representations of London in Literature. Department of English, Brunel University, Kingston University, London, and University of Northampton. 2-4 July 2008.

‘Folding Architecture, Reading Henry James’ The Aspern Papers’. Interpreting Architecture: 7th Prague Interpretation Colloquium. Charles University. Prague, June 14-15, 2008.

Lo, Louis. 'Calvino's and Dickens's Invisible Cities.' Dickens, Victorian Culture, Italy. Universities of Genova and Milan, Italy. 13-17 June 2007.

Lo, Wai Chun. "Fragmenting Sexuality, Queering National Identity: Reading Funny Boy." Journal of South Asian Popular Culture: 3rd International Conference. Organized by the Journal of South Asian Popular Culture and the Centre for Screen Studies in Drama, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures at The University of Manchester, UK. 27-28 June 2006.

Lo, Wai Chun. "Ethics of Incest: Revenge in Park Chan-wook's Oldboy." The Film Scene: Cinema, the Arts, and Social Change. Organized by the Film Culture Project of the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Music, and the Centre of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong, 21-22 April 2006.

Lo, Wai Chun. "'Your Life Didn't Belong to You': Jealousy in Almodovar's Carne Tremula." Rhetoric, Politics, Ethics. Organized by the Flemish Research Council, and Ghent University, Belgium, 21-23 April 2005.

Lo, Wai Chun. "Gilda and Jealousy." Hong Kong/Hollywood at the Borders: Alternative Perspectives, Alternative Cinemas. Organized by HK Fulbright Program, the Hong Kong-American Center, the Hong Kong Film Archive, the Center for Asian Studies, the American Studies Program, and the Department of Comparative Literature of HKU, 2-5 April 2004.

Invited Talks

‘The Return of the Algerian in Caché’. Kubrick Bookstore, 20 July 2008.

‘Being Out of Time in Wong Kar Wai’s 2046’. Technoscience and Films. Organized by The Moving Images Society. Hong Kong Shue Yan University, 2 April 2007.

‘Lust and Love’. Philosophical Vaccination for Love Influenza. Integrated Learning Program. Lingnan University, 7 Mar 2006.
‘Reading Intersection Writing’. Writing and Reading. Organized by Hong Kong Central Library and The Young Writers’ Society, 21 May 2005.

‘Adaptation: The Uniqueness of Film’. Literature and Film. Organized by Hong Kong Central Library and The Young Writers’ Society, 15 May 2004.

Membership of Professional/Academic Associations

Academic Director, Philosophia Cultural Society                                                                          2004 - date       

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