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Prof. WONG Kwok Sonia

Prof. WONG Kwok Sonia

Assistant Professor

B.Ed. (Alberta); M.Div. (CUHK);
M.A., Ph.D. (Vanderbilt)

About Prof. WONG Kwok Sonia

Sonia Wong received a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Vanderbilt University, specializing in Hebrew Bible with a minor in Ancient Near East. She wrote her dissertation on “The Solomonic Kingdom as a Cultural Fantasy of the Imperialized Yehudites,” in which she conducts a historical-critical analysis of 1 Kings 1:1-12:24 from a postcolonial-psychoanalytic perspective with the analytic notion of fantasy as a wish-fulfilling narrative. Her research interests include the Deuteronomistic (Hi)Story, the Pentateuch, postcolonial biblical criticism, psychoanalytic criticism, and cross-textual interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in the Chinese social and religious contexts.

 

Besides her Ph.D., Sonia holds a B.Ed. from the University of Alberta, an M.Div. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and an M.A. from Vanderbilt University. She received training in ecotourism and completed a unit of Clinical Pastoral Education. Before she embarked on her academic journey, she taught high-school mathematics and music for eleven years. She still enjoys playing the piano and singing for leisure. She is a member of the Methodist Church of Hong Kong.

 

Her publications include “The Birth, Early Life, and Commission of Moses: A Reading from Post-Handover Hong Kong,” in Exodus and Deuteronomy (ed. Athalya Brenner and Gale A. Yee; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2012), 139-155; “The Notion of k-p-r in the Book of Leviticus and Chinese Popular Religion,” in Leviticus and Numbers (ed. Athalya Brenner and Archie C. C. Lee; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2013), 77-95; and “A Comparison of Chinese Creation Myths and Biblical Texts,” in Global Perspectives on the Bible (ed. Mark Roncace and Joseph Weaver; Boston: Pearson, 2014), 2-3.

 

Sonia is currently working on a cross-textual reading between the biblical narratives on Zelophehad’s Daughters and the Lienü zhuan traditions in imperial China and another cross-textual reading between the naked exposure of the female body as a part of sexual policing in the Hebrew Bible and modern China.

 

 

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  • Research Interests
    • Deuteronomistic (Hi) Story
    • The Pentateuch
    • Postcolonial Theories and Postcolonial Biblical Criticism
    • Psychoanalytic Theories and Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism
    • Cross-Textual Hermeneutics of the Hebrew Bible and Chinese (Con)Texts
    • Feminist Biblical Criticism
    • Ancient Southwest Asian Culture and Literature
    • Persian Empire
  • Recent Research ProjectS
    1. Postcolonial-Psychoanalytic Criticism of the Solomonic Kingdom
    2. Political Ambiguity in the Deuteronomistic (Hi) Story
    3. Cross-Textual Criticism of Didactic Literature for Women in the Hebrew Bible and the Chinese Imperial Era
  • Representative Publications

    Articles/ Book Chapters

    1. “Naked Exposure of the Female Body in the Hebrew Bible and Modern China.” In Asian Feminist Biblical Studies, edited by Maggie Low. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, CUHK, forthcoming.
    2. “Zelophehad’s Daughters as Lienü (Exemplary Women): Reading Numbers 27:1-11 and 36:1-12 in the Discursive Context of Confucianism.” In Handbook to Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics, edited by Uriah Y. Kim and Seung Ai Yang. New York: T&T Clark, forthcoming.
    3. “Gendering Nakedness ( ערוה ) and Sexual Policing.” In Wisdom Commentary: Leviticus, by S. Tamar Kamionkowski. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, forthcoming.
    4. “Naked Exposure as a Shaming Device: A Cross-Cultural Perspective.” In Wisdom Commentary: Leviticus, by S. Tamar Kamionkowski. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, forthcoming.
    5. “The Questionable Legitimacy of the Ransoming Power of Purification and Reparation Offerings: A Chinese Cultural Perspective.” In Wisdom Commentary: Leviticus, by S. Tamar Kamionkowski. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, forthcoming.
    6. “A Comparison of Chinese Creation Myths and Biblical Texts.” In Global Perspectives on the Bible, edited by Mark Roncace and Joseph Weaver, 2-3. Boston: Pearson, 2014.
    7. “The Notion of כפר [k-p-r] in the Book of Leviticus and Chinese Popular Religion.” In Leviticus and Numbers, edited by Athalya Brenner and Archie Chi Chung Lee, 77-95. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2013.
    8. “The Birth, Early Life, and Commission of Moses: A Reading from Post-Handover Hong Kong.” In Exodus and Deuteronomy, edited by Athalya Brenner and Gale A. Yee, 139-155. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2012.

     

 

>>  Click here to Prof. WONG's profile on Divinity School of Chung Chi College website.