Research Interests
Virginia Woolf; Joseph Conrad; modernism; literature and the professions; literature and education
Selected Publications
Books
2022
Work, Inheritance, and Deserts in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
2020
Evelyn Tsz Yan Chan, Flora Ka Yu Mak, Thomas Siu Ho Yau, Yutong Hu, Michael O’Sullivan, Eddie Tay. The Value of the Humanities in Higher Education: Perspectives from Hong Kong. Singapore: Springer, 2020.
2016
The Humanities in Contemporary Chinese Contexts (2016). Eds. Evelyn T. Y. Chan and Michael O’Sullivan. Singapore: Springer.
2014
Virginia Woolf and the Professions. New York; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Articles and Chapters
2021
Narrative Community-Building in Mrs Dalloway: A Close Reading. Correspondence: Hitotsubashi Journal of Arts and Literature,. no. 6, 2021, pp. 151‒68.
2019
The Moral Dimensions of Sympathy as Inheritance in Razumov and Heyst. The Conradian. 44:1 (2019): 43‒63.
2019
Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo: Work, Inheritance, and Desert in the Modernist Novel. Modernist Work: Labour, Aesthetics, and the Work of Art. Eds. John Attridge and Helen Rydstrand. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019. 113‒29.
2017
'A Manifestation of a Deep, Inborn Inherited Instinct': Modernist Aesthetics and the Instabilities of Inheritance in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim. Transcultural Studies. 13.2 (2017): 197–216.
2017
The Ends of Irony: Kierkegaard and Conrad’s Razumov. Conradiana. 47.2 (2017): 79–93.
2016
The Value of English Literary Studies in Hong Kong: Insights from Interviews with MA Students. The Humanities in Contemporary Chinese Contexts. Eds. Evelyn T. Y. Chan and Michael O’Sullivan. Singapore: Springer, 2016. 37‒53.
2016
'Being an English Major, Being a Humanities Student': Connecting Academic Subject Identity in Literary Studies to Other Social Domains. Studies in Higher Education. 41.9 (2016): 1656–73.
2014
The Ethics and Aesthetics of Healing: Woolf, Medicine, and Professionalization. Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 43.1 (2014): 25–51.
2013
Anarchism and the Irony of Professional Work in The Secret Agent. The Conradian 38.2 (2013): 18–35.
2012
A Balancing Act: Specialization in Between the Acts. Woolf Studies Annual 18 (2012): 77–107.
2010
Professions, Freedom and Form: Reassessing Woolf’s The Years and Three Guineas. Review of English Studies 61.251 (2010): 591–613.
Research Grants and Awards
External Grants
2021-2022
Principal Investigator of Doctors' Narratives: The Construction of Meanings and Values Supporting Doctors' Work in the Public Hospital Sector in Hong Kong. General Research Fund (2021–22), Research Grants Council, Hong Kong.
2016-2017
Principal Investigator of The Humanities in Higher Education in Hong Kong: Implications for Society and the Individual. General Research Fund (2016–17), Research Grants Council, Hong Kong.
2015-2016
Principal Investigator of The Perilous Inheritances of Joseph Conrad’s Heroes.General Research Fund (2015-16), Research Grants Council, Hong Kong.
Awards
2018-2019
English Department Exemplary Teaching Award 2018–19
2016
Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award 2016
2015-2016
English Department Exemplary Teaching Award 2015–16
2015
Young Researcher Award, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2015
2013
Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award 2013
2012-2013
English Department Exemplary Teaching Award 2012–13
