Eli Park SORENSEN Associate Professor
BA(University of Southern Denmark, SDU), MA, PhD (University College London, UCL)

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Tel 3943 8550
Email eliparks@cuhk.edu.hk
Office Fung King Hey 315

Administrative Post:
Postgraduate Coordinator (Literary Studies)
Research Committee Convenor


Teaching
ENGE2130/UGED2186 Masterpieces of Literature
ENGE2110/UGED2195 Crime Fiction
ENGE2120/UGED2185 Literature and Human Rights
ENGE2640 Introduction to World Literature
ENGE3190 Literature and Culture
ENGE5720 Comparative Approaches in Literary Studies
ENGE5850 Special Topics in Literary History: Literature and Censorship
ENGE5210 Advanced Studies in Literature
ENGE5260 Life Writing

Research Interests
Postcolonialism, comparative literature, cultural studies, twentieth-century fiction, philosophy and literature, literary theory

Selected Publications
Books
2021
Postcolonial Realism and the Concept of the Political. Routledge, 2021

2021
Science Fiction Film: Predicting the Impossible in the Age of Neoliberalism. Edinburgh University Press, 2021

2020
East-West Dialogues on the Humanities: The Transferability of Concepts in the Humanities. Edited collection with Christoph Bode, Michael O’Sullivan and Lukas Schepp. Peter Lang, 2020.

2010
Postcolonial Studies and the Literary: Theory, Interpretation and the Novel. Palgrave Macmillan, 224pp (hbk), 2010 [ISBN: 978-]

Articles and Book Chapters
2020
'Between the Private and the Public Spheres: The Politics of Realism in Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey'. Studies in Canadian Literature/études en littérature Canadienne 45:1, 2021: 182-203.

2020
'Literary Realism as a Political Concept'. East-West Dialogues on the Humanities: The Transferability of Concepts in the Humanities. Edited collection with Christoph Bode, Michael O’Sullivan and Lukas Schepp. Peter Lang, 2020. 255-273.

2020
'Introduction East-West Dialogues on the Humanities' (with M. O’Sullivan). East-West Dialogues on the Humanities: The Transferability of Concepts in the Humanities. Edited collection with Christoph Bode, Michael O’Sullivan and Lukas Schepp. Peter Lang, 2020. 7-15.

2019
'"My shadow has gone mad": Irony and Self-Consciousness in H.C. Andersen's The Shadow'. Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures 3:2, 2019: 65-77

2019
'The Future as a Number' (with D. Huddart), Situations 12:1, 2019: 87-106.

2017
'The Nation at War with Itself: Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance', JELL: The Journal of English Language & Literature 63:1, 2017: 95-114.

2017
'Emergency, Oikodicy, and the Return of the Real', SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English 54:1, 2017: 1-17.

2016
'Between Friends and Enemies: Ridley Scott's Alien', Trans-Humanities: Ewha Institute for the Humanities 9:3, 2016: 51-78

2015
'Blade Runner and the Right to Life', Trans-Humanities: Ewha Institute for the Humanities 8:3, 2015: 111-129

2015
'Postcolonial Realism in the Novels of Rohinton Mistry', The History of the Indian Novel in English (edited by Ulka Anjaria), Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015. 193-206.

2014
‘“Everything has been written”: Literary Space and Borges’ “The Library of Babel”’, Chungnam Institute Journal 96, 2014: 156-179

2014
‘‘Like a melancholy burglar’: on Larry Sultan’s Pictures from Home and the Myth of the Family’ (with M. Lee), Kyungsung University Institute Journal 31, 2013: 295-317.

2014
'Postcolonial Literary History and the Concealed Totality of Life', Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Thought 37:2, 2014: 235-253

2014
'Korean Adoption Literature and the Politics of Representation', Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and The History of Ideas 12:1, 2014: 155-179

2013
'Postcolonialism and the Experience of Belatednes', MBALL: The Association of Modern British and American Language and Literature 31:1, 2013: 153-173.

2013
'A Pathological Core of Authenticity: Rereading the Case of Binjamin Wilkomirski's Bruchstücke', Forum for Modern Language Studies 49:1, 2013: 79-98

2012
'The Obscure Object of Desire: David Lynch’s The Elephant Man', MBALL: The Association of Modern British and American Language and Literature 30:2, 2012: 253-275

2012
'Melancholy Memories and Literary Language', AELLK: The Association of English Literature and Language 38:2, 2012: 129-149

2012
'History, Memory, and Post-migrant Experience', Yeungnam Journal of the Humanities 64, 2012: 189-212

2012
'Fragments of a Vessel: Aspects of Walter Benjamin’s Translation Theory', Chungnam Institute Journal 87, 2012: 81-105

2012
'Utopian Beginnings: Reflections on Place, Community, and Being', Journal of Korean Adoption Studies 3, 2012: 79-91

2012
'Post-Migrant Subjectivity and Secondary Loss: Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club', JELLA: Jungang English Language and Literature Association of Korea 54:4, 2012: 563-577

2012
'Ghostly Repetitions: Between Interpretive Violence and Hysteria', Yeungnam Journal of the Humanities 66, 2012: 79-106

2012
'Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman and Time', Modern Drama 55:3, 2012: 287-303

2011
‘Desire and Censorship in Astrid Trotzig’s Blod ?r tjockare ?n vatten’, COWOL: Comparative World Literature Association 37, 2011: 543-567

2011
‘Heroism, Fate, and Justice in Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim’, Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature vol.1, (edited by Jennifer McClinton-Temple), New York: Facts on File, 2011: pp. 301-304 [ISBN: 978-08-160-7161-6]

2011
‘Revisiting Macondo: Totality and Fragmentation in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude’, COWOL: Comparative World Literature Association 35, 2011: 361-385

2010
'Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken', Explicator 68:1, 2010: 26-28

2010
'Naturalism and Temporality in Ousmane Sembène's Xala', Research in African Literatures 41:2, 2010: pp.222-43

2009
'Imperial Nostalgia and the Detective Genre: Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans', English & American Cultural Studies 9:1, 2009: 323-348

2009
'The Art of Theft: Richard Prince’s Cowboys (1980-2002)', Journal of American Studies 41:1, 2009: pp.213-247

2009
'Novel Desires: Authority and Worldliness in Edward Said’s Literary Criticism', MESK: The Modern English Society of Korea 53:3, 2009: pp.275-305

2009
'Novelistic Interpretation: The Travelling Theory of Georg Lukács's Theory of the Novel', JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory, 39:1 (Winter), 2009: pp.57-86

2008
'The Crisis of Imagination: Postcolonial Studies and Migrant Fiction', Cross-Cultural Studies 12:2, 2008: pp.17-41

2008
'Excess and Design in Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance', NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, 41:2-3 (Spring/Summer), 2008: pp. 342-362

2008
'Formal Dissatisfactions: The Postcolonial Novel as a Literary Genre', Sub/versions: Cultural Status, Genre and Critique (edited by Pauline MacPherson, Christopher Murray, Gordon Spark and Kevin Corstorphine), Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008: pp. 112-123 [ISBN: 978-18-471-8372-9]

2007
'Arcades of Foreignness: J.M. Coetzee’s Foe', Peer English: The Journal of New Critical Thinking, issue 2, 2007: pp. 45-62

2007
'Between Autobiography and Fiction: Narrating the Self in Gabriel García Márquez's Vivir para contarla', Stories and Portraits of the Self (edited by Helena Carvalh?o Buescu & Jo?o Ferreira Duarte), Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2007: pp. 189-200 [ISBN: 978-90-420-2328-4]

2007
'Postcolonial Melancholia', Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Thought, 30:2 (July), 2007: pp. 65-81


Research Grants and Awards
2020-2021
Luce East Asia Fellowship, The National Humanities Center

2019-2020
Publication Subvention Fund

2019-2020
General Research Fund

2019-2020
Direct Grant for Research

2016-2017
Direct Grant for Research

2015
National Research Foundation Excellence Grant

2013
National Research Foundation Excellence Grant

2011
National Research Foundation Excellence Grant






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