RGC Competitive Grants Award
The following research projects in Arts are supported by the Research Grants Council in the 2026-27 round.
Principal Investigator(s) | Department | Project Title | Scheme |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof TAN Li Wen Jessica | Chinese | Silver Threads: Weaving Narratives of Aging, Illness, and Identity across Sinophone Literature | GRF |
| Prof KINDLER Benjamin Joseph | Cultural Studies | After revolution, after narrative: problems of form and the quest for de-familiarization in roots-seeking literature | GRF |
| Prof KWAN Hiu Lap Haley | Cultural Studies | Gendering Electromobility: Exploring Chinese Women's Mobilities and Challenges in China's Male-dominated Platform Work | ECS |
| Prof HO Chui Fun Selina | Digital Arts & Creative Industries | Curating Art in East Asia: Exhibition as “Worlding” Practices in Global Museums and Contemporary Art Institutions | GRF |
| Prof HUANG Fanglei Corey | English | Multimodal Writing, Visual Art and Mental Health | GRF |
| Prof SEWELL Andrew John | English | Metaphors of language and their significance: a cross-cultural survey and analysis | GRF |
| Prof ZHOU Feifei | English | Convention, Creativity, and Identity: An Interdisciplinary Study of Dialect Writing in the Digital Age | GRF |
| Prof DU Chunmei | History | The Forgotten Tribunal: American War Crimes Trial of Hankou | GRF |
| Prof FANCIULLO James Eric | Philosophy | Desire and Welfare | GRF |
| Dr HEAD Jennifer Nicole | Philosophy | Courage, Conviction, and "Scary Crazy" Inquiry: Conspiracy Theorizing as Social-Epistemic Threat | GRF |
| Prof MARSHALL Daniel Graham | Philosophy | Higher-order Metaphysics and Nominalism | GRF |
| Dr O'BRIEN Gary David | Philosophy | Meaning, Value, and AI Technology | GRF |
| Dr PALLIES Daniel Steven | Philosophy | Dimensions of Pleasure: Qualitative Hedonism Revisited | GRF |
| Prof SAUCHELLI Andrea | Philosophy | The Ethics of Pessimism | HSSPFS |
| Prof SUNG Leora Urim | Philosophy | The Heart of Altruism | GRF |
General Research Fund (GRF)
Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS)
The following research projects in Arts are supported by the Research Grants Council in the 2025-26 round.
Principal Investigator(s) | Department | Project Title | Scheme |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof CHEN Fangdai | Chinese | Writing the Low Stratum and the Margin in Contemporary Hong Kong Literature: Social Engagement, Aesthetic Innovations, and Identity Construction | ECS |
| Prof KINDLER Benjamin Joseph | Cultural Studies | Towards a Communist Life: The Challenge of Maoist Subjectivation and the Everyday, 1962-1966 | GRF |
| Prof LEUNG Shi Chi | Cultural Studies | Returning Waste to the Field: Human Excrement, Sustainability and Circularity in Contemporary Rural China | GRF |
| Prof LEUNG Yuk-ming Lisa | Cultural Studies | Minority Workers in Hong Kong - stories of migration, race and labour | HSSPFS |
| Prof SHIN Kei-wah Victor | Cultural Studies | Reinventing Traditions in Post-Socialist and Capitalist Societies: A Comparative Institutional Study of the field of Cantonese Opera in Mainland China and Hong Kong since 1949 | GRF |
| Prof TANG Tse-shang Denise | Cultural Studies | Mapping Links Between Trans and Non-Binary Experiences on Social Media and Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence among Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan Youth | GRF |
| Prof LI Youjia | History | “Transport and electricity (norimono to akari)” – Regional Conglomerate, Energy Transition and Early Japanese Industrialization | ECS |
| Prof TSUI Chung Man | History | Concreting Modernism: Reinforced Concrete and the Emergence of Modern Architecture in Early Twentieth-Century Hong Kong | GRF |
| Prof ZHANG Lei | History | Fueling the City: The Enterprise of Camels in Beijing, 1750–1950 | GRF |
| Prof BRADLEY Adam Lee | Philosophy | Reasons of the Heart: Affective Experience, Cognition, and Rationality | GRF |
| Prof HAWKE Peter Michael | Philosophy | Practical Reasoning and Fragmented Expressivism | GRF |
| Prof O'BRIEN Gary David | Philosophy | Population Ethics and Nonhumans | GRF |
| Prof LUNG Wai Chu | Translation | The figurative meanings of chongyi (interpret in relay) in Chinese politico-cultural discourse in Han dynasty | GRF |
General Research Fund (GRF)
Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS)
The following research projects in Arts are supported by the Research Grants Council in the 2024-25 round.
Principal Investigator(s) | Department | Project Title | Scheme |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof WANG Yuanfei | Chinese | Oceanic Heterotopias in Qing-Dynasty Literature (1761-1830) | GRF |
| Prof WANG Yuanfei | Chinese | Oceanic Heterotopias in Qing-Dynasty Literature | HSSPFS |
| Prof LEUNG Yuk-ming Lisa | Cultural Studies | 'Minority' Identity-Positioning, Collectivity and Tactical Belongingness among Younger Generation South/ South-East Asians in Hong Kong | GRF |
| Prof ZHOU Yang | Cultural Studies | Whither worker media? Migrant labour, platformized media/cultural production and working-class formation in China | GRF |
| Prof CHEN Fong Fong | Digital Arts & Creative Industries | Vanished Landscapes: Mapping Hong Kong's Historic Places of Visual Arts | GRF |
| Prof HOU Yiyang | Digital Arts & Creative Industries | Celluloid Attachments: Understanding the Materiality of Cinema in Post-Mao China, 1978-1989 | ECS |
| Prof TAM Yee Lok | Digital Arts & Creative Industries | Hong Kong Social Activist Documentary under Postcolonial Developmental Neoliberalism, 1997-2014 | ECS |
| Prof YEH Yueh-yu Emilie | Digital Arts & Creative Industries | Extra Historiography: Chinese Cinema in American Film Trade Journals (1908–1948) | GRF |
| Prof CHAN Wing Chun Julia | English | Cold War Hong Kong, Women's Writing, and the Making of the Global Anglophone | ECS |
| Prof ZOU Di | English | Computer-mediated and peer scaffolding for English speaking practices in spherical video-based immersive virtual reality in higher education | GRF |
| Prof CHAN Catherine See | History | Canine Lives in British Hong Kong | GRF |
| Prof DU Chunmei | History | Rape in Peking: Injured Women, Global Trial, and China–U.S. Sexual Politics | GRF |
| Prof DU Chunmei | History | The Friendly Occupation: American Soldiers in China, 1945-1949 | HSSPFS |
| Prof GIBBONS Adam | Philosophy | Why not Epistocracy? | ECS |
| Prof HILL Jesse Lewis | Philosophy | On Luck | GRF |
General Research Fund (GRF)
Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS)
The following research projects in Arts are supported by the Research Grants Council in the 2023-24 round.
Principal Investigator(s) | Department | Project Title | Scheme |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof GONG Haomin | Chinese | Reinstalling Nature: Ecocriticism and Minzu in Chinese Fiction from the 1980s | GRF |
| Prof GU Yixin | Chinese | Knowledge, Power, and Intermediality of Writing in Han and Early Medieval China | ECS |
| Prof HSU Tzu-pin | Chinese | Inheritance and Innovation in the Lingnan School of Confucian Studies: A Critical Study of So Man-jok’s Published and Unpublished Manuscripts on the Ritual Classics 嶺南經學的傳承與開拓：蘇文擢先生禮詁遺稿綜合研究 | GRF |
| Prof TAN Li Wen Jessica | Chinese | Engendering the Cold War Youth: Malleability, Mobility, and Liminality in Sinophone Southeast Asian Literature | ECS |
| Prof CASTILLO BAUTISTA Roberto Carlos | Cultural Studies | Race and Racism in Africa-China Relations: Contemporary Social Media Narratives and Representations | GRF |
| Prof KINDLER Benjamin Joseph | Cultural Studies | Factory humanisms: Sino-Soviet encounters, labour aesthetics and the fashioning of the post-socialist factory in reform-era China | ECS |
| Prof LU Miao | Cultural Studies | Competing for Africa’s Digital Infrastructure: Cables, Base Stations, and Chinese Telecom Companies in Ghana | ECS |
| Prof PUN Ngai | Cultural Studies | Cultivating worker communities among themselves: digital technologies, platform workers, and participatory culture in China | GRF |
| Prof CHEN Fong Fong | Digital Arts & Creative Industries | When Clothes Mattered in Female Figure Paintings: Wu Youru and the Media Turn in Shanghai (1870s-1920s) | ECS |
| Prof JACKS Wesley Aaron | Digital Arts & Creative Industries | On the Screen but Off the Map: Import Film Distribution in the PRC 1978-1993 | ECS |
| Prof LEE Sang Joon | Digital Arts & Creative Industries | Border Crossings in Celluloid Asia: South Korea’s Encounter with Sinophone Cinemas in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan | GRF |
| Prof ZENG Hong | Digital Arts & Creative Industries | Transforming national culture into intellectual property: Guofeng games in China’s online game industry | GRF |
| Prof ZHOU Feifei | English | Temporality, Embodiment, and Creativity: A Critical Multimodal Study of New Practices on Chinese Social Media | GRF |
| Prof FANCIULLO James Eric | Philosophy | Desire, Preference, and Context | ECS |
| Prof SAUCHELLI Andrea | Philosophy | Survival, Value and Existential Risk: Foundational Issues | GRF |
| Prof SONG Fei | Philosophy | The morality of risk: how to live morally in the world of uncertainty | ECS |
| Prof BAI Yunfei | Translation | Translation and the Making of Modern Tibetan Diction | ECS |
| Prof LI Bo | Translation | Interpreters for the Chinese Labour Corps During WWI | GRF |
General Research Fund (GRF)
Early Career Scheme (ECS)