Name	Prof. TAM Kwok-kan
	Title	Professor, Reader
	Tel	2609 7003
	Office	Fung King Hey 329
	Profile	B.A. (CUHK), M.A., Ph.D. (Illinois), Post-Doct (East-West Center)
	E-mail	kwokkantam@cuhk.edu.hk

 Administrative Posts

• Director of Comparative Literature Research Programme
• Director of MA in East-West Drama

 Research Interests

• Literary and cultural theory, drama/theatre studies, 20th century Chinese- Western literary relations, gender studies, psychoanalysis, cultural politics & language.

Selected Publications

• English and Globalization: Perspectives from Hong Kong and Mainland China (edited, with Timothy Weiss). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2004. 276 pp. With a critical introduction and a chapter.

• Soul of Chaos: Critical Perspectives on Gao Xingjian (edited). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press. 2001. viii + 345 pp. With a critical introduction and a chapter. 

• Ibsen in China 1908-1997: A Critical-Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, Translation and Performance. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press. 2001. x + 263 pp. 

• The Politics of Subject Construction in Modern Chinese Literature [Zhuti jiangou zhengzhi yu xiangdai Zhongguo wenxue]. Hong Kong; New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. viii + 231 pp. 

• New Chinese Cinema (co-authored with Wimal Dissanayake). New York: Oxford University Press. 1998. vii + 96 pp. + 8 pp. of plates. 

Research Projects

• RGC Earmarked Grant of HK$428,656 for research on "Performative Language and Self in the Drama of Gao Xingjian," 2005-08.

• HKADC Grant of HK$335,000 for research and publication on "Drama/Theatre Criticism in Hong Kong" (with IATC), 2005-06.

• HKADC Grant of HK$105,963 for research and conference on "Gender and Contemporary Literature," 2000-01.

• RGC Earmarked Research Grant of HK$441,000 for research on "Localism and Culture Politics in English Education in Hong Kong and PRC," 1999-2002.

• HKADC Grant of HK$185,200 for research on the self in Asian Chinese communities, 1997-99.

• Earmarked Grant of HK$350,000 from Ho Sin Hang Education Endowment Fund for research on "Localism, Globalism, and Opinion-Makers in Asia," 1995-97.