Jennifer Gresham

Jennifer Gresham received her B.A. and M.A. in English literature from the University of Toronto. In 2018, she earned her PhD from the University of Hong Kong, where she was a Hong Kong PhD Fellow in the School of English. Her research interests include transnational genre and processes of genrification; cultures of taste, cult fandom, and subcultural taste formations; transnationalism and cross-cultural theory; film and television; and, more recently, world modernisms.

Before joining CUHK SZ in 2020, she taught Master's courses on world modernisms and world literature at the University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University. Between 2008 and 2013, she taught humanities and literature at Toronto's Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning.

Education Background

• PhD (The University of Hong Kong)
• MA (University of Toronto)
• Hons. BA (University of Toronto)

Research

• Genre, Taste Cultures, Cult Reception, Transnationalism and Cross-Cultural Theory, New Media and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century Literature, Film and Television

Publications

Academic Conference Presentations and Seminars:

• "Unauthorized Bonds: Shaw's Bond-type Films and the Problem of Genre"
  School of English Seminar Series
  The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (April 27, 2017)

• "Sasori vs. The System?: The Female Convict Scorpion Series as Cult Cinema"
  IAFOR ACAH 2015 - Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities
  Osaka International Conference Centre, Osaka, Japan (April 2-5, 2015)

• "Pulp Crossings: International Pulp Fiction as a Site of Cross-Cultural Exchange"
  Cutlure Factor: 3rd Annual Humber Liberal Arts Conference
  Humber College ITAL, Toronto, Canada (September 29-30, 2012)