Digital Humanities

My interests in digital humanities are primarily related to computational literary studies. I am conducting a grant-funded project which takes a quantitative approach to contemporary literature in English.

I direct the MA in Digital Humanities for Cultural Professionals at EdUHK, which offers a broad and interdisciplinary look at the relationships among culture, arts, technology, and the creative industries. The programme was founded in 2024.

Talks


Memory, Perception, and Narrative in English-Language Autofiction

July 27, 2026

Conference presentation, DH2026, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, Daejeon, South Korea

Upcoming presentation.

Does Autofiction in English Exist? Generic and Narrative Measures

May 28, 2026

Conference presentation, Conference on Computational Literary Studies, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Autofiction in English: Generic and Narrative Characteristics

May 18, 2026

Conference presentation, Computational Cultural Science Workshop, École national des chartres, Paris, France

Recent Quantitative Approaches to Literary Studies

February 10, 2026

Conference presentation, English Literature and Language Cluster, Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

The Event of Autofiction in English

January 23, 2026

Conference presentation, Hong Kong Association of Digital Humanities Conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Small Language Models: Contemporary Literature and the Style Transfer Task

December 06, 2025

Keynote, Literary Studies Symposium, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong

What is an Antiracist Ontology?

November 11, 2024

Invited talk, English Department Seminar, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

We are Data! Twee Surveillance in Miranda July and Sheila Heti

June 07, 2019

Conference presentation, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Hong Kong

Hospitality, Hong Kong, and the Culture of Total Information Awareness

April 16, 2015

Invited talk, English Department, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Hospitality and Dataveillance

March 26, 2015

Conference presentation, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA

Teaching


Global Media Histories

Graduate, Education University of Hong Kong

Upcoming. The best of “global media” and “media history,” with an East Asian lens.

Critical Making and Media Theory

Graduate, Education University of Hong Kong

Upcoming. Physical media, social media, computational media. History and theory of the media concept.

English Literature and Data Analytics

Graduate, Education University of Hong Kong

Computational and quantitative methods applied to the study of English literature.

Digital Humanities

Undergraduate, Education University of Hong Kong

Undergrad version. Core methods in digital humanities including text analysis, data visualization, and network analysis.

Digital Humanities Methods

Graduate, Education University of Hong Kong

Postgraduate version. Core methods in digital humanities including text analysis, data visualization, and network analysis.