Grant HAMILTON

B.A., M.A. (Winchester), Ph.D. (UNSW)

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Fung King Hey 313

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Twentieth-century world literature, postcolonial literatures, African literatures in English, literary theory, computational literary studies

Books / Monographs Authored

2021	The London Object: Writing London at the End of Capitalism. London: Routledge.
2016	The World of Failing Machines: Speculative Realism and Literature. Winchester: Zero Books.
2011	On Representation: Deleuze and Coetzee on the Colonized Subject. Leiden: Brill.

Edited Volumes

2024	Mapping the Posthuman. London: Routledge (co-edited with Carolyn Lau).
2016	A Companion to Mia Couto. Suffolk: James Currey (co-edited with David Huddart).
2013	Reading Marechera. Suffolk: James Currey.2016

Chapters in Books

2024	At First Blush: New Materialism and Computational Literary Studies. New Materialist Literary Theory: Critical Conceptions of Literature for the Anthropocene, edited by K. Howaldt and K. Merten, 63-77. Lanham, MA: Lexington Books.
2024	Technology and Literary Criticism. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Technology and the Humanities, edited by S. Chan, K. Mak and S.M. Leung, 247-258. London: Routledge.
2024	Introduction: An Orientation. Mapping the Posthuman, edited by G. Hamilton and C. Lau, 1-24. London: Routledge (with C. Lau).
2023	Densities and Fugitive Vectors. Advances in Techno-Humanities: Case Studies from Culture, Philosophy and the Arts, edited by K. Mak, 28-43. London: Routledge.
2020	J.G. Ballard's Shanghai. Revealing/Reveiling Shanghai: Cultural Representations from the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, edited by L. Bernstein and C. Cheng, 143-158. New York: SUNY Press.
2019	Shklovsky and World Literature. Viktor Shklovsky's Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy, edited by Slav Gratchev and Howard Mancing, 139-150. Lanham, MA: Lexington Books.
2018	Defamiliarization and the Act of Reading World Literature. Deleuze and the Humanities: East and West, edited by R. Braidotti, K.Y. Wong, and A.K.S. Chan, 11-26. London & New York: Rowman & Littlefield International.

Articles in Journals

2024	The Book, Meaning, and Densities of Essential Forms in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe. LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, vol. 35, no. 1: 18-38.
2018	Aporia and Diaspora: The Unliveable Life in Dinaw Mengestu's How to Read the Air. Journal of the African Literature Association, vol. 12, no. 2: 153-165.
2018	The Communion of Clouds: Becoming-woman in Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians. Australian Literary Studies: Special Issue on J.M. Coetzee, vol. 33, no. 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.20314/als.23561c8f3f

Conference Papers

2023	Dark Seed: Desert Islands and Beginning Again. An invited talk presented at Thinking Islands: Exploring the Sea and the Land in Literature, Film and Philosophy. University of Hong Kong, HK. 6 October.
2022	Building and Using a Literary Corpus: Introducing Computational Literary Studies. An invited talk presented at the Research Institute for the Humanities Webinar Series: Digital Humanities Across the Faculty. Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK. 9 March.
2022	A Literature of Densities and Fugitive Vectors. Building a Techno-Humanities Culture in Hong Kong. Caritas Institute of Higher Education, HK. 7 January.
2019	At First Blush: Object-Oriented Ontology and the Reading Machine. An invited conference paper presented at New Materialist Literary Theory. University of Erfurt, GERMANY. 19 September.
2018	The Communion of Clouds: A Reading of Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians. An invited lecture. University of Tokyo. JAPAN. 25 May.
2018	Object-Oriented Philosophy and the Art of Literary Criticism. An invited lecture given at The Society of Fellows Lecture Series. University of Hong Kong, HK. 9 April.

ENGE2380	Twentieth-Century Fiction
ENGE2640	Introduction to World Literatures in English
ENGE3250	Other Literature in English
ENGE5210	Advanced Studies in Literature
ENGE5270	Major Contemporary Novels
ENGE5310	Science Fiction and Utopia
ENGE5340	Distant Readings

Internal
2018-2019	Direct Grant for Research
2015	Humanities Fellowship of the Faculty of Arts, 2015
2015-2016	Direct Grant for Research
2012-2013	Direct Grant for Research
External
2023-2026	General Research Fund

Editorship
2018-present	General Editor. Hong Kong Review of Books