Kenneth Chan

Dr. Kenneth Chan received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of English at the University of Florida in 1999. He began teaching at Clemson University and the University of Florida, while working on his graduate degrees; before going on to assistant professor positions at the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, where he offered courses in composition, literary studies and theory, film studies, and cultural studies. He joins UNC as Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the fall semester of 2008.

His forthcoming book, Remade in Hollywood: The New Global Chinese Presence in Post-1997 American Cinema, will be published in 2009 by Hong Kong University Press. Apart from the Chinese in Hollywood, Chan's research extends to transnational Chinese cinemas, Asian American film and literature, British-Asian literature, Singapore studies, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and contemporary American film. His essays have also appeared in various journals including Cinema Journal , Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature , and Journal of Chinese Cinemas ; with others forthcoming in Discourse , Moving Worlds , and Camera Obscura . Chan plans next to direct his research attention to the emerging political aesthetic of global screen violence and its ethical and cultural implications in a post-9/11 world order.

Kenneth Chan sits on the board of directors and is the Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Asian Film Archive (Singapore). With its mission to preserve and promote Asian cinema, the Asian Film Archive was accepted into the ranks of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), which includes world-leading organizations such as the British Film Institute. It has also won the New Non-Profit Initiative Award at Singapore's Annual National Volunteers and Philanthropy Awards.

In Fall 2008, Dr. Chan will offer two courses in film studies: HUM 320 Asians in Hollywood and HUM 211: History of Film II.

For more information about the Film Studies program at the University of Northern Colorado, please contact April Miller

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