Benjamin FREUDENBERGSenior LecturerDirector, Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies Programme
PhD in Humanities. HKBU
M.A. in Sinology & Media Studies, Trier University
Diploma in Video Production, HKAPA
Courses TaughtContemporary Critical Thought
Modern China Through Film
Literature and Visual Culture
Visual Culture Studies
Literature and Film
Digital Games: Reality, Simulation, Interaction
Hong Kong Kung-fu Novels, Films and Chinese Culture
English Usage
English Writing
Research InterestsFilm Studies
Critical Theory
Media Theory
Selected Publications"The Asian Underworld as Ideological Battleground: Observations on the Yakuza in Hong Kong Cinema." In: Frank Jacob (ed.).The Yakuza in Popular Media: Honorable Criminals or Violent Gangsters?Marburg: Büchner-Verlag, 97-124, 2021.
“The Doctor is in … on Modernity” in: Tao Siu Tip, The Stage Art of Dr. Faustus, Hong Kong: Repertory Theatre, 212-228, 2011.
Review ofAnalyses of Script: Properties of Characters and Writing Systems(edited by Gabriel Altmann & Fan Fengxiang) in:Journal of Quantitative Linguistics17(1): 68-73
Selected Conference Presentations"'Derridean Chinese': A Defense
'She Remains a Problem': Nature, First and Second, in the Anthropocene
Schelling on China: Myth, Music, Language, Script", American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference, Utrecht University, 2017

“Projected Force and ‘Abstract Nationalism’”, Asian Cinema Studies Society (ACSS) conference, University of Hong Kong, 2012
“Slick Lumpen from Mong Kok to Maaskantje”,Rethinking Resistance, University of Macau, 2011
“Re-/Dis-‘Disconnected’: Linguistic Identity and Ideological Bifurcation”, Association for Cultural Studies (ACS)Crossroads, Lingnan University, 2010