Jeffrey Mather is currently the Associate Head of the Department of English and holds a PhD in English from the University of Kent. His research and teaching interests focus on twentieth-century literature and historical representations of China through Western writing. His is the author of Twentieth-Century Literary Encounters in China: Modernism, Travel, and Form (2020) is also working on an RGC funded project to do with the poet and editor Harriet Monroe and her professional and literary networks during the early decades of the twentieth century. He has published on a number of twentieth-century authors including Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, James Hilton, Emily Hahn, and Han Suyin. His other interests include graphic novels, periodical studies, and travel writing as a form of literary representation.
Research Grants
- Harriet Monroe in China: Modernism, Travel, and Transnational Poetics, General Research Fund, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2019 - 2021, Jeffrey Mather (PI).
- China Up-Close: Emily Hahn’s Literary Journalism, General Research Fund, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2016 - 2019, Jeffrey Mather.
Journal
- Mather, Jeffrey. (2017). Captivating Readers: Middlebrow Aesthetics and James Hilton’s Lost Horizon. CEA Critic. 79.2. 231 - 243.
- Mather, Jeffrey. (2017). Hong Kong Comics: Reading the Local, Writing the City. Wasafiri: International Contemporary Writing. 32.3. 79 - 86.
- Mather, Jeffrey. (2016). Ethnography and Poetic Method: Southwest China, Joseph Rock, and Ezra Pound's "Drafts & Fragments: Cantos CX-CXVII". Neohelicon - Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum. 43.2. 501 - 514.
- Mather, Jeffrey. (2016). Perspectives on Palestine: Architecture and Narrative in Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature. 47.4. 175 - 186.
- Mather, Jeffrey. (2016). Propaganda and Memory in Li Kunwu and Philippe Ôtié’s 'A Chinese Life'. Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies. 42:1. 99 - 118.
- Mather, Jeffrey. (2014). Laughter and the Cosmopolitan Aesthetic in Lao She's Mr. Ma and Son. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture. 16.1.
- Mather, Jeffrey. (2014). Response to Gary Okihiro, "Of Space/Time and the Pineapple.". Atlantic Studies: Global Currents. 11:1. 103 - 105.
- Mather, Jeffrey. (2014). Stopping to Read the Flowers in Virginia Woolf's "Kew Gardens.". The Explicator. 72:2. 80 - 83.
- Mather, Jeffrey. (2011). "Lao She". The Literary Encyclopedia.
- Mather, Jeffrey. (2010). Botanising in a Sinocentric world: Robert Fortune's travels in China. Studies in Travel Writing. 14/3. 257 - 270.
- Mather, Jeffrey. (2009). Camping with the Divine Jane: Jane Austen and Reginald Farrer's China. Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing. 10/2. 45 - 64.
Book
- Mather, Jeffrey. (2019). Twentieth-Century Literary Encounters in China: Modernism, Travel, Form. Routledge.
Book Chapter
- (2019). Graphic Visions - Translating Chinese History Through Collaborative Graphic Autobiography. Literature, Memory, Hegemony - East/ West Crossings. (pp. 141 - 158). Palgrave Macmillan.
- (2019). The Novel of Mainland China. The Oxford History of the Novel in English. Oxford University Press.
- Mather, Jeffrey. (2015). Watching/Reading: Graphic Narratives and University Writing. Creativity and Discovery in the University Writing Class: A Teacher's Guide. (pp. 277 - 296). Sheffield. Equinox Publishing Ltd.
- Mather, Jeffrey. (2009). Ma Jian's "Red Dust": a Global China and the Travelling Self. Rerouting the Postcolonial: New Directions for the New Millennium. (pp. 139 - 150). Edited by Janet Wilson, Cristina Sandru, and Sarah Lawson Welsh. New York. Routledge.
Service in CityU
Administrative Assignment
- 2019 - Now, Department of English, Associate Head.
- 1 Jul 2018 - 1 Jan 2019, BA English Studies Programme, Leader.
Last update date :
27 Oct 2020
