Prof. WEISS Timothy


Title

Professor

Tel 2609 7017
Office Fung King Hey 323
Profile B.A. (Colorado), M.A. (Wisconsin),
Ph.D. (New Mexico)
E-mail tweiss@cuhk.edu.hk

Administrative Post

  • Postgraduate Conference Coordinator

 

Research Interests

  • World literatures in English, especially Caribbean and African literatures; Orientalism in Western literature; translation and identity.

 

Selected Publications

  • "The Windrush Generation," Chapter 11 in The Cambridge Companion to the 20th Century English Novel. Ed. Robert L. Caserio. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009: 163-175.
  • Translating Orients: Between Ideology and Utopia. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2004.
  • English and Globalization: Perspectives from Hong Kong and Mainland China. Eds. Kwok-kan Tam and Timothy Weiss. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2004.
  • On the Margins: The Art of Exile in V.S. Naipaul. 276 pages. Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1992. <http://www.netLibrary.com>


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