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Professor Mung Chung

Ph.D
Pronouns: She/her

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Location

SLLLC Office: CHC

Background

Educational Background

PhD Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin , 2019

M.Phil Chinese Language and Literature , The Chinese University of Hong Kong ,

BA Chinese Language and Literature , The Chinese University of Hong Kong,

Biography

Mung Ting Chung is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the East Asian Studies program at the University of Calgary. Her research interests include Hong Kong literature, Sinophone studies, and the cultural Cold War. She co-edited the special volume Coming of Age in Chinese Literature and Cinema: Sinophone Variations of the Bildungsroman with Andrea Riemenschnitter and Kiu-wai Chu, which is forthcoming this June: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463720793/coming-of-age-in-chinese-literature-and-cinema

Her first monograph, Writing Beyond Borders: Hong Kong Literary Production in the Early Cold War Era (tentative title), is now under contract with Brill.

 

Research

Areas of Research

Hong Kong Literature, Sinophone Studies, Cultural Cold War Studies

Publications