Ms. LAM Melissa

	Title	Instructor
	Tel	2609 7022
	Office	Fung King Hey 312
	Profile	BA Hons (McGill), MA Hons (Canterbury), PhD (In Process) (London)"
	E-mail	mlam@cuhk.edu.hk

Interests

Transnationalism; American Literature; Postmodernization and Globalization; Diaspora studies; Comparative Study of Literature and the Visual Arts.

Selected Publications:

Authored Book:

Disenfranchised from America: Reinventing Language and Love in Nabokov and Pynchon. Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, June 2009.

Articles:

"Diasporic Literature: The Politics of Identity and Language" Vol 21 Issue 2 Journal of Asian Pacific Communications. John Benjamins Publishing Company February 2011 (Upcoming)

"Reconceptualizing Domesticity Shifting Transatlantic Spheres in New World Female Narratives" Vol 20 No.1 Journal of Literature and Aesthetics, University of Sydney July 2010.

"The Politics of Fiction: A Response to New Orientalism in Type" Vol 4 Issue 3 Journal of Multicultural Discourse, Routledge Press, Taylor and Francis Group, 257-262. 2009

"AAA Project: Review of A-Z, 26 Locations to Put Everything" Vol 8 No. 1 Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Art and Collection Group Ltd, 2009.

"Public Art and the shifting new role of the Curator" in Public Art and China. Chanchun Sculpture Institute and Chanchun University Press, 2008.

Current Projects:

Melissa Lam is currently working on the subject of late Seventeenth Century captivity narratives and the reworking of domesticity and transnationalism in America.

Chaired Panels:

MLA (Modern Language Association) Special Session proposal acceptance and Roundtable Presider and organizer for "Interactive Arts: The Languages of Public Space" (Dec 28th 2009, Philadelphia Marriot Convention Centre)

Memberships in Professional Associations:

Modern Language Association

ASAP. (Association of the Study of the Arts of the Present), (Chair of the Multidisciplinary Interface)