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The Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong
offers studentships in conjunction with its Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programmes.  We are looking for exceptional
candidates with a strong research plan in any of the following areas:  

Visual Cultures, Digital Media and Film Studies  
critiques of space; world cinemas; feminist film theory; film studies and
film language; new media technologies and aesthetics; media and cultural
theory; performance studies; popular culture; theories of representation;
contemporary visual culture; virtual reality and cyberspace; cinemas of Asia
and the Asian diaspora 
Feminism and Gender Studies 
feminism and psychoanalytic approaches to literature; feminist cultural
studies; gender and sexuality; technology and the body; women's writing and
women's studies 
Postcolonial and Global Studies 
colonial, postcolonial and globalization studies; feminist and postcolonial
theories; cultural identity and representation; the cultures of contemporary
cities; East-West culture from the early modern period to the present;
orientalism 
Literature and Critical/Cultural Theory 
East-West comparative literary/cultural relations; French and German theory;
postmodernism; problems of aesthetics; reception studies; semiotics;
critical theory; literary and cultural theory/philosophy; modernism;
narrative theory; psychoanalytic theory; Marxisms  
Hong Kong/China Studies 
Hong Kong cinema, culture and literature; Chinese Modernism;  Hong Kong
cultural policy in the global context; Hong Kong, Taiwan, PRC cultural
studies; urban Chinese cultures from the late Qing to the contemporary; Hong
Kong, Taiwan, PRC modern and contemporary literature and film; cultural
memory in Chinese-language cinemas; historiography of Maoist and post-Mao
China 
The current faculty includes:  Esther Cheung, Esther Yau, Daniel Vukovich,
Mirana May Szeto, and Gina Marchetti.
 
Closing date for applications for 2009-10 is December 31, 2008.
 
For more information on the application process to the University of Hong
Kong, visit  http://www.hku.hk/gradsch/web/apply/ 
 
For more information on specific requirements for the Department of
Comparative literature, visit,
http://www.hku.hk/complit/postgrad/mphilphd_guidelines