Topics in comparative literature and cultural studies:
Anthropology of culture; architectural theory and criticism; avant-gardes in literature, film, architecture and the visual arts; Chinese Modernism; colonialism and postcolonialism; comparative poetics; comparative studies in Chinese/English poetry; critiques of space; cultural identity and representation; dance theory; East-West comparative literary/cultural relations; world cinemas; feminism and psychoanalytic approaches to literature, feminist cultural studies; feminist film theory; feminist and postcolonial theories; film studies and film language; French philosophy and theory; gender and sexuality; German philosophy and theory; Hong Kong cinema, culture and literature; interactive technology; literary and cultural theory/philosophy; Chinese, British, European and American literature of all periods; literature and film/myth/sociology; modernism; multimedia studies; narrative theory; new media technologies and aesthetics; nineteenth-century studies; opera and cultural studies; performance studies; popular culture; postmodernism; problems of aesthetics; psychoanalytic theory; reception studies; semiotics; surrealism; East-West culture from the early modern period to the present; technology and the body; theatre; theories of representation; theories of romanticism and postmodernism; contemporary visual art; third world cinemas; violence and space; virtual reality and cyberspace; Walter Benjamin; women's writing and women's studies.