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 Island, 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 also have interests in critical theory, queer theory, world literature and translation, postcolonialism, and the digital humanities. I am crafting my first book project based on my doctoral dissertation, "After Haiti: Race, Empire, and Global Decadent Literary Resistance, 1804-1984," which I defended in April 2024 in the Department of English at the University of Virginia. I also serve as a Co-Director for Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (UVC), and 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