Contacts
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Education
- PhD, English Studies, Department of English, University of Macau.
- M.A. in English Studies, Department of English, University of Macau.
- B.A. in English Studies, Department of English, University of Macau.
- Professional certificate of TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), University of California, Santa Barbara.
Current Position
- Aug 2020 – Present: Assistant Professor, General Education Department, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, City University of Macau.
Teaching Experience
- Aug 2019 – Aug 2020: Resident Fellow (書院導師), Ma Man Kei and Lo Pak Sam College, University of Macau.
- Jan 2018 – Jun 2019: Instructor (Part-time), Department of English, University of Macau. Course taught: Creativity and Writing: English for a Global Readership.
- Aug 2016 – Dec 2017: Instructor (Part-time), English Language Center, University of Macau (UM).
- Feb 2012 – Jul 2013: Lecturer, Department of General Education, Macao University of Science and Technology (MUST).
Courses Taught
- 2020 - Present English III (Department of General Education, City University of Macau)
- 2018 - 2019 Creativity and Writing: English for a Global Readership (Department of English, University of Macau)
- 2016 - 2018 Academic English (English Language Center, University of Macau)
- 2017 Summer Immersion English (English Language Center, University of Macau)
- 2013 Practical Writing (Department of General Education, MUST)
- 2012 - 2013 Reading I &II (Department of General Education, MUST)
- 2012 Listening and Speaking I (Department of General Education, MUST)
- 2012 Translation Skills (Department of General Education, MUST)
Research Project Participation
- Sept 2018 – Aug 2019: Research project entitled “Asian Diaspora Literature in English: Resource Development and Outreach” (MYRG2017-00219-FAH)
- Sept 2015 – Sept 2018: Research project entitled “Contemporary Literature in English: Resource development and outreach” (Ref: MYRG2015‐00083‐FAH), funded by the University of Macau.
- Sept 2013 – May 2016: Co-Principal Investigator of research project entitled “Asian American Literature in the Global Context” (Ref: MYRG2014-00156-FAH), funded by the University of Macau.
Research Interests
- Asian American Literary Studies
- Drama and Theater
- Cultural Studies
- Gender & Sexuality Studies
Journal Papers & Conference Presentations
- Kong, I. C. (2021). Revisiting theatre of the minoritarian in neoliberalism: The Embodied Memories in Denise Uyehara’s and Dan Kwong’s Auto-performances. Rupkatha Journal (special issue on East and Southeast Asian Literary and Cultural Studies), 13(3). (forthcoming, indexed by Scopus, WoS, MLA, ESC)
- Kong, I. C. (2021). “A Sick Way of Thinking?”: The Unorthodox Dramaturgy of Young Jean Lee’s Identity Politics Theater. The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance, 1(2), 1–30. (Published by De La Salle University)
- Kong, I. C. (2020). Performing Refugee’s Body and Memory: Poetics of Diaspora in Lê Thị Diễm Thúy’s Autoperformance. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanaties, 12(5). https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v12n5.rioc1s21n1 (indexed by Scopus, WoS, MLA, ESCI)
- Kong, I. C. “COVID: Karma in Macao.” CUNY Forum, vol. 8, no. 1, 2020, https://aaari.info/cuny-forum-8-kong/
- Kong, Io Chun. “A Racial Contingent Performance: Freedom, Forgetting Race, and ‘a New Form of Whiteness’ in Diana Son’s Satellites.” Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies, 2020. (Under Review)
- 20-22 Aug 2020: Conference presentation, “Performing Refugee’s Body and Memory: Poetics of Diaspora in lê thi diem thúy’s Autoperformance”, 1st Rupkatha International Open Conference on Recent Advances in Interdisciplinary Humanities, Virtual.
- Kong, Io Chun. “COVID: Karma in Macao.” CUNY Forum, vol. 8, no. 1, 2020, https://aaari.info/cuny-forum-8-kong/
- Kong, Io Chun. “Passing through from Colonial to Post-Colonial: Staging Macanese Patua as a Language of Their Own.” Projections, no. 3, 2014, pp. 1–14.
- 1-3 Aug 2019: Conference presentation, “Racial Contingency in Asian American Theater: Freedom, Forgetting Race, and a New Form of Whiteness in Diana Son’s Satellites”, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Conference 2019, Silliman University, Dumaguete.
- Dec 2014: Conference presentation, “Globalization and Asian American Theater: Reading The Square as a Neoliberal Multicultural Artwork”, International Conference on Asian American Literature, Xiamen University.
- May 2007: Conference presentation, “The Negotiation of Space and Identity in Chay Yew’s Porcelain”, 2nd Pearl River Delta English Studies Graduate Conference, Shenzhen University.
Academic Scholarships
- 2013-2016: PhD Scholarship, University of Macau.
- 2003-2004: Dean’s Honor List, University of Macau.
- 2002 –2003: Exchange Scholarship to Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), USA.
Professional Affiliations
Reviewer of Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanaties