Karen Fang
Professor
- Phone: (713) 743-2949
- Email: kfang@uh.edu
- Office: 236B
- Website:
Biography
Karen Fang is a film scholar and cultural critic who writes and speaks for museums and film festivals around the world. Originally trained as a Romanticist with a focus on imperial history, Prof. Fang is particularly interested in the confluence of eastern and western culture. She has written about the mutual influences of , dystopian echoes of , nineteenth century British writing about exotic objects, and Asian American representation in art and popular culture. She is also founder and chair of the , including an annual Student Prize Competition which recognizes this campus鈥檚 many kinds of media studies-related work. For The Engines of Our Ingenuity, a popular nationally distributed public radio series about science and innovation, . Her latest book is a .
Education
- MA/PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1998, 2002
- BA, University of Pennsylvania, 1994
Research Interests
Film and media studies, visual culture, nonfiction narrative, global, imperial and postcolonial culture
Teaching
- ENGL 3301 Introduction to Literary Studies
- ENGL 3359 Hong Kong Cinema
- ENGL 4373 Forms of Film Authorship (Film, Text, and Politics)
- ENGL 4397 Biography and Creativity (Selected Topics in Literature and Film)
- ENGL 7396 Theories of the Moving Image
- ENGL 8386 Surveillance and Orientalism
- ENGL 8393 Writing for Publication
Selected Publications
(Rutgers University Press, 2024)
(Stanford University Press, 2017)
(University of Virginia Press, 2010)
鈥�.鈥� Nikkei Asia, March 2023
鈥�?鈥� Los Angeles Review of Books, October 2020