Talks and presentations

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

One City One Book Hong Kong: Community Reading and the Strength of Weak Ties

December 13, 2024

Conference presentation, Hong Kong meets Kazakhstan: A Humanities Cultural Crossroads within the Belt & Road, Hong Kong

What is an Antiracist Ontology?

November 11, 2024

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

Social Annotation in the Humanities

May 01, 2024

Invited talk, Elmira College Teaching Workshop, Elmira, NY, USA

Miranda July's Social Medium

April 24, 2024

Invited talk, Media Studies Lecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Friendly Strangers and Strange Friends: Writing Relationality Now

April 19, 2024

Invited talk, Department of English, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

Friendly Strangers and Strange Friends: Writing Relationality Now

April 18, 2024

Invited talk, School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

The Ethics of Alterity and The Ethics of Care

November 02, 2023

Conference presentation, Hong Kong 2023 Humanities Conference on Comparative Cultures of Care, EdUHK, Hong Kong

Reading: It Happened to Me - Can It Happen to You?

March 24, 2023

Invited talk, Reading Festival, Good Hope Secondary School, Hong Kong

Creative Writing as Community Reading

December 05, 2022

Invited talk, Bringing Creative Writing into the Community, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Exploring Narrative and Point of View in Fiction

May 20, 2022

Invited talk, Hong Kong Education Bureau Professional Development Programme, Hong Kong

Social Annotation and Affective Pedagogy in the Literary Studies Classroom

May 13, 2022

Invited talk, Faculty of Humanities, EdUHK, Hong Kong

Xi Xi and the Value Theory of Labor

November 09, 2020

Invited talk, HKBU English Department Seminar Series, Hong Kong

Social Annotation in the Literature Classroom

June 19, 2020

Invited talk, Hong Kong Education Bureau Professional Development Programme, Hong Kong

Surveillance in Contemporary American Autofiction

May 14, 2020

Invited talk, City University of Hong Kong English Department Seminar Series, Hong Kong

Internet Censorship and State Surveillance Systems

May 12, 2020

Public talk, A Cha Discussion, 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

The Strength of Weak Ties: One City One Book Hong Kong as Neighborhood

May 11, 2019

Conference presentation, Hong Kong Studies Symposium: The Neighborhood, Hong Kong

Surveillance, Democracy, and American Autofiction

April 13, 2019

Keynote, Heterotopic Junctions Postgraduate Conference, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Inverting Infrastructure in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy

October 17, 2018

Conference presentation, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, New Orleans, LA, USA

Reading Claudia Rankine Empathetically

June 15, 2018

Conference presentation, Modernism and Empathy, Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Data Exhaust: Tao Lin's Quotation Marks and Surveillance Capitalism

January 04, 2018

Conference presentation, Modern Language Association Convention, New York, NY, USA

Memoir against Metafiction: David Foster Wallace and the Internal Revenue Service

June 06, 2017

Conference presentation, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Utrecht, Netherlands

Post-Paranoid David Foster Wallace

December 07, 2016

Conference presentation, Surveillance, Form, Affect, Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Non-Obvious Relationship Awareness: Surveillance, Algorithms, and the Forms of Contemporary American Fiction

May 17, 2016

Conference presentation, Literary Form and Reform, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Surveillance and Transparency in Claudia Rankine's American Lyric

April 07, 2016

Conference presentation, Joint Conference of the Irish and British Associations for American Studies, Belfast, UK

Surveilling Citizens: Claudia Rankine, from the First to the Second Person

March 17, 2016

Conference presentation, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, USA

Surveilling Citizens: Claudia Rankine, from the First to the Second Person

October 19, 2015

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

Monuments to Information: Kenneth Goldsmith and Maya Lin

June 11, 2015

Conference presentation, Between Monumentalism and Miniaturization, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 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

Technooriental Hong Kong, from William Gibson to Edward Snowden

April 11, 2015

Conference presentation, International Conference on the History of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong

Hospitality and Dataveillance

March 26, 2015

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

Surveillance and Privacy in U.S. Law and Literature

October 27, 2014

Invited talk, Law and Literature Colloquium, City University of Hong Kong Law School, Hong Kong

Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's Chinese Spaces

June 29, 2014

Conference presentation, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Shanghai, China

Smoking on the Streets of New York: Art Spiegelman as Rooted Cosmopolitan

January 10, 2014

Conference presentation, Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, IL, USA

Rooted Cosmopolitan: Art Spiegelman in New York, circa 9/11/01

October 11, 2013

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

U.S. Sovereignty and International Law in Cormac McCarthy

April 06, 2013

Conference presentation, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada

Art, the State, and Ectoplasm: Arthur Miller's The Archbishop's Ceiling

May 25, 2012

Conference presentation, American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA

Author or Authoritarian? Nabokov's Realities and Cold War Confessional Discourse

January 07, 2011

Conference presentation, Modern Language Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Crisis of Confidence: Richard Nixon and the Male Feminist

April 10, 2010

Conference presentation, (Dis)-junctions Graduate Conference, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA