Ling Hon Lam

Professor Ling Hon Lam received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He was an An Wang postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and a Newhouse research fellow at Wellesley College in 2010-11. His research and teaching interests cover premodern drama and fiction, sex and gender, history and theory of emotion, nineteenth- and twentieth-century media culture, and critical theories. He is the author of The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China: From Dreamscapes to Theatricality (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018). His other publications include “The Matriarch's Private Ears: Performance, Reading, Censorship, and the Fabrication of Interiority in The Story of the Stone” (HJAS 65.2), “Reading off the Screen: Toward Cinematic Il-literacy in Late 1950s Chinese Opera Film” (Opera Quarterly 26.2-3), “A Case of the Chinese (Dis)order? The Haoqiu zhuan and the Competing Forms of Knowledge in European and Japanese Readings” (East Asian Publishing and Society 3), “The Peony Pavilion: Emotions, Dreams, and Spectatorship” (How to Read Chinese Drama), “Borrowed Time and Infinitude: Narrative, Media, and the Body in the Jing Ping Mei” (Approaches to Teaching the Jing Ping Mei), “‘Stone’s New Clothes: ‘Red Chamber’ Films at Recent Present, 1920s and 50s” (Nanyang Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture), and “What Noise Does a Psychotic Door Listen To: Information, Intermediality, and Guo Baochang’s Peking Opera Film Dream of the Bridal Chamber” (JCLC 11.1). His new project is concerned about media forms, energy, and information in early modern China.