Cherrie Kwok / 郭明欣

Me, with my friend Maya. Belle Isle, VA. 2023. Photo credit: Sam
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Selected Work

Note: much of this is abridged. A full CV is available upon request.

Peer-Reviewed Literary Criticism

Journal Articles

“Symbolism, Empire, and the Dance: On Sarojini Naidu’s “Eastern Dancers” and Arthur Symons’s “Javanese Dancers.” Volupté: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies, 4.2, (2021), 157-71.

Awarded the 2021 British Association of Decadence Studies Postgraduate Essay Prize

Book Chapters

“The Church Missionary Gleaner and the Multifaceted Portrayal of Colonial Christianity.” Winter Jade Werner, peer rev.; Adrian S. Wisnicki, peer-rev. ed.; Dino Franco Felluga, copy ed. “BIPOC Voices,” One More Voice, solidarity edition; Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education (COVE); 2022-23.

Encyclopedia Entries

"Oscar Wilde's De Profundis". Ed. by Grace Moore, University of Otago. The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.07: English Writing and Culture of the Victorian Period, 1837-1901. Vol. editors: Gillian Fenwick (University of Toronto), Grace Moore (University of Otago). First published 15 March 2023.

Peer-Reviewed Pedagogical Papers

“Using Wikipedia in the composition classroom and beyond: Encyclopedic “Neutrality,” Social Inequality, and Failure as Subversion.”The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP). Issue 18. December 2020.

Peer-Reviewed Curricular Materials

“Undisciplining the Dramatic Monologue.” Carolyn Betensky, Melissa Free, Ji Eun Lee, collab. peer revs.; Sophia Hsu, lesson plan cluster dev. Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, 2021.

Teaching

I have taught as an instructor of record for courses related to writing and composition and digital media since 2019. I have also served as the founder and co-director for an anti-racist pedagogy group in my department since 2020, a pedagogy mentor for upcoming graduate students in 2020, and tutored for the university's Writing Center since 2019. My assistant editorship with the Undisciplining Victorian Classroom Project has also involved preparing, editing, and peer-reviewing syllabi and curricular materials about enslavement, colonialism, and race in nineteenth-century literature for other instructors in my field.

Conferences

Conferences Organized

In 2023, I chaired a field-wide conference about race and global Decadence, funded jointly by the Jefferson Scholars Foundation at the University of Virginia and the Decadence Research Centre at Goldsmiths, University of London, and co-chaired another conference (with Anastatia Curley) at UVa about pedagogical approaches. In 2020, I co-chaired (with John Modica) the UVa English Department's graduate conference. From now until 2025, I will serve on the program committee for the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies 2025 World Congress at the Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait.

Conference Papers Presented

2023, “After Haiti: Jeanne Duval and the Rise of Duvalian Decadence.” Theorizing Decadence Panel. Global Decadence, Race, and the Futures of Decadence Studies, Jefferson Scholars Foundation at the University of Virginia and the Decadence Research Centre at Goldsmiths, University of London.

2022, “The Duvalian Movement in Decadent Literature,” The Caribbean at the Fin de Siècle panel, The Caribbean Philosophy Association, Michigan State University.

2022, “On Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Maryse Condé’s Windward Heights, and the Undisciplined Future of Victorian Studies,” Postcolonialism and Global South Contemporary Literature: Diasporic Subjecthood, Agency, Trauma, and Race panel, Institute for World Literature, Harvard University.

2022, “Victorian Dialogue, Subaltern Muteness, and Punctuation: Jo’s trial talk in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House.” Victorian Talk, Belcher Colloquium in Victorian Studies, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University.

2022, “W.E.B. Du Bois’s Quare Dandyism.” Victorian/Modern Crisis, Revolt, and Survival panel, Victorian and Early 20th Century LLC, Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, Washington D.C.

Service

2023, Chair, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Membership Selections Committee, The Raven Society, UVa's Honorary Society.

2020, Mock Examiner, Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam on the Victorian Period, Department of English

Awards, Grants, and Honors

2022, The Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award in the Arts and Humanities, the Provost and the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs, University of Virginia

2021, Postgraduate Essay Prize, British Association of Decadence Studies

2021, Flash Funding Grant for Teaching Writing and Anti-Racism in the ENWR 1510 Classroom, The Jefferson Trust, University of Virginia

2021, Praxis Digital Humanities Fellowship, UVa Library’s Scholars’ Lab

2020, Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Research Award, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia

2018, Dean’s Graduate Research Development Fund Award, University of Virginia

2017, The Millicent Bell Prize for the Most Outstanding M.A. Thesis, Department of English, New York University

2015, College of Humanities Commendation for Contribution to the Life of the English Department, University of Exeter