Lisa Lai-ming Wong Associate Professor Division of Humanities Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Research 1. Publications (a) Books 2017 Trans. The Completion of a Poem: Letters to Young Poets by Yang Mu, with Translator s Introduction and Notes. (Leiden: Brill, 2017). 169 pages. 2015 搜尋的日光 : 楊牧的跨文化詩學 (Rays of the Searching Sun: The Transcultural Poetics of Yang Mu), translated into Chinese by Zhan Minxu [ 詹閔旭 ] and Shih Chun-chou [ 施俊州 ], reviewed and edited by Tseng Chen-chen [ 曾珍珍 ]. Taipei: Hongfan, 2015. 346 pages. 2009 Rays of the Searching Sun: The Transcultural Poetics of Yang Mu (No. 23 in New Comparative Poetics Series). Brussels: P. I. E. Peter Lang S. A., 2009. 300 pages (b) Refereed Journal Articles 2015 Living between Languages: Aboriginal Life Writing in Modern Taiwan Poetry in 30 Years 30 Essays: a/b Auto/Biography Studies. A selection of 30 essays in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the journal. Eds. Ricia Anne Chansky and Emily Hipchen. Published on 4 March 2015. http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/ah/ab-30years 2012 The Personal Lyric of Grief. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 39.1 (March 2012) : 27-47. 2009 台灣, 中國, 以及楊牧的另類民族敘事 [Taiwan, China, and Yang Mu s Alternative to National Narratives]. First appeared in CLCWeb (2006), translated into Chinese by Shih Chun-chou [ 施俊州 ] and collected in 楊牧專號 : 舉向再生的團圓 [Special Issue on Yang Mu: To Be Reborn in Unity]. 新地文學 [New Land Literature] 10 (December 2009): 342-357. 2007 The Making of a Poem: Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Spender, and Yang Mu. The Comparatist (USA) 31 (2007): 130-147. 2006 A Promise (Over)Heard in Lyric. New Literary History (USA) 37.2 (Spring 2006): 271-284. 2006 Between You and I : the Performative Utterance in Lyric. International Journal of the Humanities (USA) 3.8 (2005/2006): 135-138. 2006 Epiphany in Echoland: Cross-cultural Intertextuality in Yang Mu s Poetry and Poetics. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 31.1 (March 2004) [Oct. 2006]: 27-38. 2006 Voices from a Room of One s Own: Examples from Contemporary Women s Poetry. Modern China (USA) 32.3 (July 2006): 385-408. 2006 - Taiwan, China, and Yang Mu s Alternative to National Narratives.
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (USA) 8.1 (March 2006) 9 pages. 2005 Living between Languages Aboriginal Life Writing in Modern Taiwan Poetry. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies (USA) 19:1-2 (Summer and Winter 2004): 295-311. 2004 A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever: Yang Mu s Letters to Keats. The Keats-Shelley Review (UK) 18 (September, 2004): 188-205. 2004 (Un)tying a Firm Knot of Ideas: Reading Yang Mu s The Skeptic. Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate (Germany/USA) 12. 2-3 (2002/2003): 292-306. 2003 何遠之有? 楊牧詩中的本土與世界 [How Is It Far? The Local and the Global in Yang Mu s Poetry]. In 雝和 : 楊牧專輯 [Chorus: Special Issue on Yang Mu] 中外文學 [Chung Wai Literary Monthly] (National Taiwan University) 8:31 (January 2003): 133-160. 2002 Clear a Theoretical Ground for Modern Chinese Poetry: Re-readings of the Etymological Roots of Shih. Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, New Series (Taiwan) 30.4 (December 2000): 541-560. 2002 Writing Allegory: Diasporic Consciousness as a Mode of Intervention in Yang Mu s Poetry of the 1970s. Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese (Hong Kong Lingnan University) 5.1 (July 2001): 1-28. 2000 Landing on a Home: Negotiations of Cultural Identity in Modern Taiwan Poetry. Lun Heng (University of Hong Kong) 5.1 (June 2000): 1-47. (c) Book Chapters 2018 Measure Words Not for Measure: A Linguistic Experiment in Modern Chinese Poetry. In Chinese Poetic Modernisms. Ed. Christopher Lupke and Paul Manfredi (Leiden: Brill, Forthcoming) 2013 A Comparative Study of Lyric Fear. In Expanding the Frontiers of Comparative Literature: A Return to the Transnational Tradition. Ed. Sung-Won Cho (Seoul: Chung-Ang University Press, 2013), pp. 276-284. 2010 Emotions and the Modern Self in Ibsen s Poetry. In Acta Ibseniana VII: Ibsen and the Modern Self. Eds. Kwok-kan Tam, Terry Siu-han Yip, and Frode Helland (Oslo and Hong Kong: Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo and The Open University of Hong Kong, 2010), pp. 163-180. 2010 Liberation of Femininity? Women s Poetry in Post-Mao China. Gender, Discourse and the Self in Literature: Issues in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Eds. Kwok-kan Tam and Terry Siu-han Yip (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2010), pp. 91-108. 2009 Taiwan, China, and Yang Mu s Alternative to National Narratives. First appeared in CLCWeb (2006). Collected and reprinted in Cultural Discourse in Taiwan (Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities Series). Eds. Chin-Chuan Cheng, I-Chun Wang, and Steven Tőtősy de Zepetnek. (Kaohsiung: College of Liberal Arts, National Sun Yat-sen University, 2009), pp. 87-107. 2005 An Island of Voices: Negotiations of Cultural Identity in Modern Taiwan Poetry. Transgressing Cultural and Ethnic Borders, Boundaries, Limits and Traditions. Ed. Ampie Coetzee (Pretoria: University of South Africa Press, 2004), pp. 454-463. (d) Book Review 2009 Review of Yang Lian, Riding Pisces: Poems from Five Collections. Trans. 2
Brain Holton. Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2008, 215 pages. Renditions 72 (November 2009): 108-111. (e) Chinese-English Translations 2017 Ars Poetica, Rays of the Searching Sun, and The Lost Ring -- for Chechnya in Hawk of the Mind: Collected Poems of Yang Mu. Ed. Michelle Yeh (New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming), pp. 99-100, 114-116, and 130-136. 2011 The Previous Life and The Ultimate Order by Chen Xianfa. In Push Open the Window: Contemporary Poetry from China. A National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) Anthology. Eds. Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Lin (Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2011), pp. 146-148. 2008 Conch Shells in the Mist by Chung Wai-man, and At midnight, I saw your little shoes hanging at the bathroom window to Ying-ying and Still Unborn by Wong Leung-wo. In To Pierce the Material Screen: An Anthology of 20 th Century Hong Kong Literature. Vol. II Essays and Poetry. Ed. Eva Hung (Hong Kong: Renditions Book, 2008), pp. 104-5, 151-2, and 229. 2008 Thinking of You in Rainy Days by Hsiung Hung. The Taipei Chinese PEN 143 (Spring 2008): 9-10. 2006 The Mansion Outside the Mansion by Hsiang Ming, A Sketch of Morning Lights by Lu Ti, and Brief Notes on Chiayi by Du Yeh. The Chinese PEN, Taipei (Spring 2006): 58-61, 63. 2004 The Fugitive Train by Lin Ling and The Lost Ring for Chechnya by Yang Mu. In Special Section: New Taiwan Poetry, Renditions (Hong Kong) 61 (Spring 2004): 61-65, 71-81. 2004 Helplessness: Ten Lines by Hsia Ching. Reprinted in Selected Poems of Hsia Ching. (Hong Kong: Milky Way Publishing Co., 2004), p. 63. 2003 The Beginning of Spring by Lin Sheng-pin, The End of a Year by Li Kuei-hsien, and Speechless Grass by Chen Kun-lun. The Chinese PEN, Taipei (Autumn 2003): 42-3, 47-50. 2001 Rainy Days by Lin Fuan-chan, Helplessness: Ten Lines by Hsia Ching, and Graduation Performance by Jiao Tong. The Chinese PEN, Taipei (Summer 2001): 47, 49-51. 2. Seminar, and Conference Presentations (a) Seminars 2009 Presenter, Interdisciplinary Seminar I: Emotions Emotions and the Self in Ibsen s Poetry School of Humanities and Social Science, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 27 November 2009. 2009 Guest Speaker, Department Seminar (by invitation) Born of a Backward Glance that Kills: The Survival of Lot s Wife and Eurydice. Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University, 12 January 2009. (b) Conference Presentations 2010 Events in Search of Their Moments in Time: A Preliminary Study of Yang Mu s Lyrical Essays, printed and distributed at The Completion of a Poem: the International Conference in Celebration of Yang Mu s 70 th Birthday. 3
National Cheng Chih University, Taipei, Republic of China. 25-26 September. 2010 A Comparative Study of Emotions in Lyric, The XIXth Congress of International Comparative Literature Association in Seoul, Korea. 14-21 August 2010. 2008 Lay Adream: The Modern Self in Ibsen s Poetry. Ibsen and the Modern Self: A Multidisciplinary Conference, jointly organized by the Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, and Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Hong Kong, 18-24 November. 2004 Epiphany in Echoland: Cross-cultural Intertextuality in Yang Mu s Poetry and Poetics. Workshop on A New Concept of World Literature. The XVIIth Congress of International Comparative Literature Association, Hong Kong, 15-20 August. 2004 The Possible Homes: English and Bilingual Poetry of Hong Kong, the International Conference on Inhabiting Multiple Worlds: Auto/biography in an (Anti)global Age of the International Auto/Biography Association (IABA), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 15-20 March. 2003 Biliteracy and Trilingualism: The Identity of Hong Kong. the International Conference on Language and Nationhood: Confronting New Realities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Putrajaya, 16-18 December. This paper was published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Language and Nationhood: Confronting New Realities (Putrajaya: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2003). CD Rom. 12 pages. 2002 Living between languages Aboriginal life-writing in modern Taiwan poetry, the International Conference on Life-writing and the generations, of the International Auto/Biography Association, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 15-19 July. 2000 An Island of Voices: Negotiations of Cultural Identity in Modern Taiwan Poetry. Section 3: Transgressing Cultural and Ethnic Borders, Boundaries, Limits, Traditions. The XVI th Congress of International Comparative Literature Association, Pretoria, South Africa, 13-19 August. 3. Research Awards and Grants 2015 搜尋的日光 : 楊牧的跨文化詩學 [The Chinese translation of Rays of the Searching Sun: The Transcultural Poetics of Yang Mu] was awarded a publication grant of NT$80,000 by National Culture and Arts Foundation of Taiwan in April 2015. 2007-09 Principal Investigator, HK$69,000 (RGC Direct Allocation Grant) Project title: A Theoretical Study of Addressivity in Lyric 2003-05 Principal Investigator. HK$92,000 (RGC Direct Grant for Research) Project title: Dialogic Exchange in the Lyric Voice. 4. Research Projects in Progress 2009- Emotions in literature 2006- A Theoretical Study of Addressivity in Lyric 2000- Comparative Poetics in modern English and Chinese poetry. 4
Teaching 1. Awards and Honours 2009 Best Teaching Award School of Humanities and Social Science The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 2006 Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of English The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2004 The Vice-Chancellor s Exemplary Teaching Award 2003 The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2003 Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of English The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2. Courses taught at HKUST HUMA1300 Introduction to Western Literature HUMA 113 Approaches to Western Literature HUMA 231/2210 Western Short Stories HUMA 313/4250 Masterpieces of Modern Literature HUMA 5360 History and Theory of Comparative Literature HUMA 5480 Lyricism in Literature and the Arts HUMA 601N Topics in Literary Theory: Intertextuality 3. Supervision of Postgraduate Research at HKUST 2015- Leung Ka Heng (M. Phil, Literature) 2009-11 Shi Jing (M. Phil, Literature) 2007-09 Tam Yee Lok, Enoch (M. Phil, Literature) Service 1. University Service Internal Selection Committee 2016- Member, School Representative Committees of Senate 2008-11 Member, Scholarship Committee University Core Education Office 2010-11 Member, Course Review Panel for the University Common Core (Chinese and English Communication Courses) Additional Member, Course Review Panel (Arts and Humanities) School of Humanities and Social Science 2011 Member, Executive Committee 2009-11 Member, Global China Studies UG Major Committee 2011 The 20 th Anniversary Lecture Series Organizing and hosting Prof. Lydia Liu s visit and her public lecture, The Freudian Robot 2009-10 Member, School Curriculum Taskforce 5
2009-10 Member, Service Committee Division of Humanities 2017- Member, Merit Salary Review Committee 2015- Member, PG Committee 2014-15 Member, Curriculum Committee 2014 Member, UG Committee (January -August) 2011 Chair, Curriculum Committee Member, Executive Committee Member, Staff-Student Liaison Committee 2011 Book Conference: The Historical Novel (for Prof. Kenny Ng) Organizing and hosting the Symposium and the Book Workshop 2011 Member, Merit Review Committee 2007-11 Member, Curriculum Committee 2007-10 Coordinator, Literature Group 2009-10 Member (elected junior faculty), Executive Committee 2006-7 Member, LLL Committee 2. Professional Service (a) Service for Other Institutions 2011-13 Member, The Advisory Peer Group (Programmes in Chinese and English) School of Arts and Social Sciences The Open University of Hong Kong (b) Refereeing for Academic Journals 2014- Journal of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong 2010- Chung Wai Literary Monthly (Taiwan) 2008- Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (USA) 2008- Renditions (Hong Kong) 2006- International Journal of the Humanities (Australia) 2005- positions: east asia cultures critique (USA) 2003- Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese (Hong Kong) (c) Translating Chinese Poetry into English 2000-08 Translator (poetry section) The Chinese PEN, Taipei Chinese Center, International P.E.N. (d) Proofreader/Reviewer of Chinese Translation of English Poetry 2007 Proofreader/Reviewer, Selected English Poems in Chinese Translation (Bilingual version). Trans. Yang Mu (Taipei: Hongfan, 2007) 2002 Proofreader/Reviewer, Selected Poems of John Keats (Bilingual version). Trans. Cha Liang-zheng [Mu Dan] (Taipei: Hongfan, 2002) 3. Public Service Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority 2009-13 Member, Sixth Form Subject Committee (Chinese Literature) Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority 6