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Carolyn LAU

Lecturer
Ph.D. (CUHK)

Tel 3943 7022
Email carolynlau@cuhk.edu.hk
Office Fung King Hey 318

Research Areas
Contemporary literature and culture, global speculative fiction, graphic narratives, posthumanism
 
Selected Publications
Books
2023
Posthuman Subjectivity in the Novels of J.G. Ballard. New York: Routledge.
Edited books
2024
Mapping the Posthuman. London: Routledge (co-edited with Grant Hamilton).
Recent Book Chapters & Journal Articles
2023
“Preface: Things to Come,” in AI and Design in Sci-Fi, edited by Luisa Mok. Hong Kong: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
2022
“Kathy Acker: A Late Modernist.” Modernism/modernity Print+.
“Foreword: The Next Five Minutes,” in Humanual, edited by Mariko Takagi. Kyoto: Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts.
2021
“Machine Learning Writing Tools as Oracle and Glitch,” in Proceedings of Art Machines 2: International Symposium on Machine Learning and Art.
2021
“Picturing Pathology: An Affirmative Reading of Lam Qua’s Medical Portraiture,” in Anatomy of the Medical Image Knowledge Production and Transfiguration from the Renaissance to Today, edited by Christiane Weller and Axel Fliethmann. Leiden: Brill.
2018
“Posthuman Literature and Criticism,” in Posthuman Glossary, edited by Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
 
Impact and Engagement
2019-Present
Founder and Project Manager of Science Fiction in the Classroom