Karen Fang

Karen Fang
English
Professor
Office: 222D Roy Cullen Building
Phone: 713-743-2949
Email: kfang@uh.edu
Karen Fang is a film scholar and cultural critic who writes and speaks for museums and film festivals around the world. Originally trained as a Romanticist with a focus on imperial history, Prof. Fang is particularly interested in the confluence of eastern and western culture. She has written about the mutual influences of , dystopian echoes of , nineteenth century British writing about exotic objects, and Asian American representation in art and popular culture. She is also founder and chair of the Media and Moving Image initiative, including an annual Student Prize Competition which recognizes this campus鈥檚 many kinds of media studies-related work. For The Engines of Our Ingenuity, a popular nationally distributed public radio series about science and innovation, . Her latest book is a .
Critical Studies Courses
- ENGL 3358 - Hong Kong Cinema
- ENGL 4373 - Film, Text, and Politics (鈥淰ision and Power鈥)
- ENGL 4397 - Selected Topics in Film, Literature, and Culture (鈥淪urveillance Futures鈥)
- ENGLI 7396 - Theories of the Moving Image [offered Spring 2018]