Dr. Cherrie Kwok / 郭明欣

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I was born and raised in Hong Kong, and I also have roots in Vancouver, Canada. I specialize in Global Anglophone literatures from the long nineteenth century to today, with a focus on race, imperialism, and an artistic style and political concept called decadence. My interests run across the British Romantic and Victorian literatures, American literature, and the literatures from the Global South, with a secondary focus on some Francophone and Sinophone literatures in their original forms and in translation. I place these interests in conversation with scholarship from Asian Diaspora Studies, Black Studies, Caribbean Studies, Indigenous Studies, Decolonial and Postcolonial theory, and Queer-of-Color critique. I also have interests in World Literature and Translation Studies, the Digital Humanities, and the teaching of Writing and Composition. I have been a Fellow at the Jefferson Scholars Foundation since 2020, and I serve as a Co-Director for Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (UVC). I also hold a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Decadence Research Centre at Goldsmiths, University of London, where I am the Founder of the newly conceived Global Decadence Lab. In August 2024, I will be a Research Associate and Lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia, where I expect to teach a course titled "Whose Land? Settler Histories, Indigenous Futures."

Last updated: July 2024