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Lecturer

School of General Education and Languages

Contact details

Email: vivien_chan@thei.edu.hk

Phone: +852 3890-8157

TEACHING AREAS
  • English for Academic Studies
  • Teaching English and Literature in the ESL Classroom
  • PhD in English Literary Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • MPhil in English Literary Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • BA in English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2026- now Lecturer School of General Education and Languages, THEi
2024 – 2026 Visiting Lecturer College of Professional and Continuing Education, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2018 – 2023 Tutor The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2018 – 2023 Research Assistant The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2017 – 2018 Proofreader and Transcriber The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Teaching English and Literature in the ESL Classroom
  • British Romanticism and Poetry
  • Phenomenology of the Body
  • Literature and Empathy Studies

  • Chan, C., and Vivien Chan. “Poetry, Cross-modality, and the Matter of Keatsian Taste(s).” Palgrave Handbook of Phenomenology and Literature. Accepted, forthcoming.

  • Chan, Vivien. “The Poetics of Becoming in John Keats’s Creative Encounters with Alterity.”, Cardiff University Press. Accepted, forthcoming.

  • Chan, C., and Vivien Chan. “Stephen Dedalus and the Mourning Echoes to Shakespeare’s Hamlet.” Literature Compass, vol. 22, no. 2, 2025.

  • Chan, Vivien, and C. Chan. “Subjugated Pain, Mortality and Romanticized Spectatorship in Kafka’s ‘In the Penal Colony’.” Postgraduate English (Durham University Department of English Studies), no. 45, 2024.

     

  • Chan, Vivien (2026). Keats, Bentham, and the ‘Pleasure Thermometer’. Paper presented at The Keats Conference, London.
  • Chan, Vivien (2024). Keats, ‘Intermedial’ Pleasure, and Readerly Empathy. Paper presented at The Keats Conference, London.
  • Chan, Vivien (2023). ‘Such dim-conceived glories of the brain’: The poetics of becoming in John Keats’s poetry. Paper presented at Romantic Boundaries: BARS ECR & PGR Conference, British Association for Romantic Studies, The University of Edinburgh.
  • Chan, Vivien (2023). The ‘Chameleonism’ of wine drinking in ‘Ode to a Nightingale’. Paper presented at The Keats Conference, London.
  • Chan, Vivien, & Chan, C. (2022). ‘Remembrance of a jarring world’: The poetic art of re-making memories in Wordsworth and Keats. Paper presented at Memory: The Captive and The Fugitive Hybrid International Literature Conference, National Taipei University of Technology, online.
  • Chan, Vivien, & Cheung, S. (2021). Re-memorying McDull: Childhood, adulthood and Hongkongness. Paper presented at Modernity, Memory, and Asian Childhood International Conference, Taiwan Children’s Literature Research Association & National Cheng Kung University, online.
  • Chan, Vivien (2021). Ecologising romantic consciousness: Reconnecting nature, agency of matter and embodied thought in Lyrical Ballads. Paper presented at Romantic Disconnections/Reconnections: BARS Digital Conference, British Association for Romantic Studies, online.