Collier NOGUES

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Assistant Professor

BA Barnard College of Columbia University; MFA UC Irvine; PhD HKU

Administrative Post

Undergraduate Coordinator (Literary Studies/Creative Writing)
Language Coordinator

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Office

Fung King Hey 327

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Email

cnogues@cuhk.edu.hk

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Tel

3943 7018

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Link

CV

Research Interests

Creative writing; 20th and 21st-century poetry in English; interactive, digital, and GenAI literatures; transpacific literatures; ecopoetics and documentary poetics; decolonization and demilitarization activism; archive studies

Publications
Teaching
Service
Grants and Awards

Books / Monographs Authored

2015	The Ground I Stand On Is Not My Ground, Drunken Boat [print book] [digital interactive book]
2011	On the Other Side, Blue, Four Way Books [print book]

Chapters in Books

2022	Nogues, Collier. “Experimentation.” A-Z of Creative Writing Methods, edited by Deborah Wardle, et al., Bloomsbury Academic, Research in Creative Writing Series. [link]

Articles in Journals

2024	Tsao, Jack and Collier Nogues. “Beyond the Author: AI, Creative Writing and Intellectual Emancipation.” Poetics. [link]
2023	Nogues, Collier. “Together in the Future Wilderness: CAConrad’s Queer Appearances.” Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture, vol. 8, no. 3. [link]
2023	Nogues, Collier, et al. “From DOCUMENT to DOKYU: Contemporary Forms of Cross-disciplinary Arts Practice and Scholarship.” ASAP/Journal, vol. 8, no. 3. [link]
2018	Nogues, Collier. “‘with [our] entire breath’: The U.S. Military Buildup on Guåhan (Guam) and Craig Santos Perez’s Literature of Resistance.” Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures, vol. 12, no. 1: Island Narratives and Literature. [link]
2012	Nogues, Collier and Devin Becker. “Saving-Over, Over-Saving, and the Future Mess of Writers’ Digital Archives: A Survey Report on the Personal Digital Archiving Practices of Emerging Writers.” American Archivist, vol. 75, no. 2. [link]

Invited Papers

2024	Hong Kong Polytechnic University: featured speaker representing CUHK at the UGC cross-university webinar “Real-world Applications of Generative AI in Learning, Teaching, and Assessment.” 750 attendees from 34 countries. Topic: “Student Approaches to Authorship and Originality: GenAI and the Future of the Humanities.”
2024	CUHK Department of Cultural Studies and University Library: invited panelist, “Evaluating GenAI: Perspectives Across Computer Science, Law, and Humanities.” Topic: “What Can Co-Authoring with Generative AI Teach Us About Authorship and Creativity?”
2024	Hong Kong Metropolitan University: invited speaker, “Hong Kong, Art, and Poetry: Four Poets in Dialogue,” with Jennifer Wong, Tim Tim Cheng, and Nicholas Wong.
2023	CUHK Office of Research and Knowledge Transfer Services Grant Writing Workshop: invited speaker, “Grantwriting for Poets: Tips and Tricks for Early Career Grant Capture.”
2023	CUHK Faculty of Arts General Research Fund/Early Career Scheme Grant Workshop: invited speaker, “Developing Successful Grant Proposals for Research-led Creative Practice.”
2023	Hong Kong Baptist University English Department Seminar Series: invited speaker. Topic: “Immersed in the Archive: VR Poetry as Cross-disciplinary Creative Practice.”
2022	Yale University School of Art: invited speaker. ART610: Duration, Audience, and Documentation. Topic: “Poetic Documentation and Immersive 3D Space.”

Creative Works

Research-led Creative Practice
2021-2023	Yale-NUS, DOKYU: Intersections of History, Creative Writing and Arts Practice: co-organizer June 2023-; core collaborator Jan 2021-June 2023. Grant-funded investigation of transdisciplinary approaches to archival research.
2017	Container Press “Multitudes” series: solicited writer/artist. Digital exhibition of solicited artist’s books, project #1: Rolodex Open Rotary Card File. Artwork title: “Miniature Perimeter.” [link]
2017	“The Perimeter.” Interactive lyric essay based on site-specific photography and text, Territory No. 4. [link]
2016	City University of Hong Kong, Gallery 360°: co-curator and digital poet. Public Exhibition of CURVED: Bilingual Literature for Immersive Multi-screen Environments, a Chinese/English animated digital poetry installation in a 360° immersive theater.
2014	SALTS Gallery, Basel, Switzerland: solicited artist. Gallery exhibition of hybrid text/print works curated by Quinn Latimer: The Printed Room: read the room / you’ve got to. Artwork title: “The Ground I Stand On Is Not My Ground.”

ENGE1310	Communications for English Majors
ENGE3280	Writing a Life Between Languages
ENGE4200	Advanced Creative Writing
ENGE4700	Independent Research Project

2022-present	Adjudicator, Poetry Remake Competition, Campaign on “Promoting Positive Values and Attitudes through English Sayings of Wisdom” (SOWCampaign), Hong Kong Education Bureau
2015-present	Examiner, Literary Arts & Publication Grants, Hong Kong Arts Development Council

Internal
2023-2024	CUHK Faculty of Arts Conference Grant, HK$150,000 to support “Poetry’s Englishes in Asia and the Diaspora: An International Symposium,” co-organized with Dorothy Wang (Williams College, American Studies) and Elmo Gonzaga (CUHK, Cultural Studies).
2023-2024	CUHK Faculty of Arts Strategic Impact Enhancement Fund, HK$154,000. Co-awardee with Professors Eddie Tay and Joanna Mansbridge for ongoing creative practice and community outreach.
2023-2024	CUHK Faculty of Arts Direct Grant, HK$43,200. “Both Sides of the Fence: Documenting Liminal Militarized Spaces through Immersive VR Poetry.”
External
2023-2025	Hong Kong Research Grants Council Early Career Award and Early Career Scheme, HK$284,500. “(Hemi)spherical Poetry: Connecting Transpacific Histories through Creative Research.”

External
2024	Early Career Fellow, Hong Kong Academy of Humanities
2023	Early Career Award, Hong Kong Research Grants Council