Professor TAM Kwok-Kan （譚國根教授）

Professor Tam Kwok-kan is the Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science (SHSS) and Chair Professor of English. Before joining The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, he worked at different institutions, including the East-West Centre (Honolulu), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and The Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU, formerly known at the Open University of Hong Kong). A renowned academic, Professor Tam has an outstanding track record in teaching, research and higher education administration. He has proven success in the development of creative arts programmes.

Professor Tam was Professor-Reader in English and served various administrative roles at CUHK, including Department Chairmanship, Graduate Studies Headship, and Research Centre Directorship. He was also Fellow and Trustee of Shaw College, CUHK. In the institutions he previously served, he developed many new programmes that created niche areas of teaching and research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, such as the BA/BFA programmes in creative writing, film production, advertising design, animation film and cinematography, and MA programmes in Chinese literature, cultural industries management, and cultural heritage studies. He was the Founding Director of the Research Institute for Digital Culture and Humanities and of the Tin Ka Ping Centre of Chinese Culture at HKMU.

Professor Tam received his PhD and AM in Comparative Literature from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA and his BA (Hons) in English from CUHK. He has held visiting positions and fellowships in teaching and research at the East-West Center (Honolulu), Stockholm University, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Frie Universität Berlin, Sophia University, Tokyo University, and National University of Singapore. He received an ASAIHL Fellowship for research on World Englishes. In addition to the many RGC Grants he has received, he directs the Dr Alexander Law Fund for Research in Global Cultural Dynamics.

An international leading scholar in Ibsen studies, he is the former Head of the International Ibsen Committee, University of Oslo. He is a Foundation Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities. He has authored and edited numerous books and has published more than a hundred articles on Ibsen, Gao Xingjian, Englishization studies, comparative literature, modern drama, and Chinese film. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of international journals in the humanities and social science and edits the Springer book series Digital Culture and Humanities.

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