Karen Fang
Professor
- Phone: (713) 743-2949
- Email: kfang@uh.edu
- Office: 222D Roy Cullen Building
Biography
Karen Fang is Professor in the Department of English, and founder and chair of the CLASS initiative in Media and the Moving Image. A scholar of literature as well as film, Karen Fang is interested in literary and visual narrative under conditions of global capitalism. Her books include Arresting Cinema: Surveillance in Hong Kong Film (Stanford University Press 2017); Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs (University of Virginia Press 2010); and John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow (Hong Kong University Press 2004). She also is a regular contributor to the nationally distributed public radio series, The Engines of Our Ingenuity. A firm believer in art’s value for civic engagement, Fang is a frequent speaker and collaborator with museums and film festivals around the world. She is currently at work on a biography about Chinese immigrant artist and Disney Legend, Tyrus Wong.
Education
- Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
- B.A., University of Pennsylvania
Publications
- Arresting Cinema: Surveillance in Hong Kong Film (Stanford, 2017)
- Surveillance in Asian Cinema: Under Eastern Eyes (Routledge, 2017)
- Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs (University of Virginia Press, 2010)
- John Woo's A Better Tomorrow (Hong Kong University Press, 2004)
Research Interests
British Romantic literature, film studies,surveillance, imperial history, cultural studies
Teaching
Recent Courses
- ENGL 3315 The Romantic Movement
- ENGL 3358 Hong Kong Cinema (Selected Topics)
- ENGL 4397 Surveillance Films (Selected Topics in Literature and Film)
- ENGL 7396 Theories of the Movies Image (Selected Topics)
- ENGL 8356 English Romanticism (Later)
- ENGL 8386 Surveillance and Orientalism (Topics in Postcolonial Studies)