Dear all, Please circulate to interested undergraduates and MA students, or wherever else. Many thanks, Dan SUBJECT: Studentships in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies The Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong offers studentships in conjunction with its Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programmes. We are looking for exceptional candidates with a strong research plan in any of the following areas: Chinese Modernism; Cold War and Orientalism; colonialism and postcolonialism; cultural identity and representation; East-West comparative literary/cultural relations; global cinemas; feminist cultural studies; feminist film; feminist and postcolonial theories; film studies; Frankfurt School and critical theory; French philosophy and theory; gender and sexuality; German philosophy and theory; globalization and culture; Hong Kong cinema and literature; Hong Kong cultural policy and cultural studies; digital culture and new media; literary and cultural theory/philosophy; narrative theory; Marxisms; Maoist and post-Mao China; performance studies; popular culture; postmodernism; problems of aesthetics; theories of representation; third world cinemas; violence and space; women's writing and women's studies. The current faculty includes: Esther Cheung, Daniel Vukovich, Mirana May Szeto, and Gina Marchetti. Closing date for applications for 2007-8 is January 2007. For more information on the application process, visit http://www.hku.hk/gradsch/web/apply/guide0607/INDEX.HTML# For more information on graduate studies in the Department of Comparative Literature, contact: Gina Marchetti at marchett@hku.hk
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