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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, global speculative fiction, posthumanism, creative computing
 
Selected Publications
Books
2023
Posthuman Subjectivity in the Novels of J.G. Ballard. New York: Routledge.
Edited books
2023, forthcoming
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.
“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