Our New Faculty Members 2012

Division of Humanities

May-yi SHAW Ph.D. Harvard University Adjunct Assistant Professor Professor Shaw received her Ph.D. degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations (modern China and Japan) from Harvard University, and her B.A. degree East Asian Studies (Japanese concentration) and Political Science from University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining HKUST, she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism and Communication at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the co-host of “Culture Matters” program on International Channel of Shanghai (ICS). Research Interests: Modern Chinese and Japanese literature, culture and film; Sino-Japanese wartime history and literature; intercultural and transnational identity formation; studies of third culture kids.

Martien A HALVORSON-TAYLOR Ph.D. Harvard University Visiting Associate Professor Professor Halvorson-Taylor received her AM and PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (Hebrew Bible) from Harvard University, her MDiv from Harvard Divinity School, and her BA in English Literature from Yale University. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. Research Interests: The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament); history, religion and literature of ancient Israel; wisdom literature (for example, the book of Job); biblical narrative (for example, the books of Genesis and Esther); the Babylonian Exile; biblical interpretation in the Second Temple period; canonical process; literary approaches to and reception history of the Hebrew Bible in Judaism and Christianity; collective memory and identity in the Jewish Diaspora; history of biblical scholarship; classical (biblical) Hebrew language.

David Cheng CHANG PhD, University of California, San Diego Assistant Professor Professor Chang received his PhD in modern Chinese history from the University of California, San Diego in 2011, his MA in East Asian studies from Stanford University in 2006, and his BA in economics and international studies from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 1998. Prior to joining HKUST, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University. Research Interests: POW studies as social, political, and military history; Cold War international history; China-Burma-India Theatre in WWII; wartime education and migration (1930s-1940s); history of Sino-U.S. relations; elections and constitutionalism in modern China.

Jianmei LIU Ph.D, Columbia University Associate Professor Professor Liu received her BA from Beijing University and her MA (East Asian Languages and Literatures) from University of Colorado at Boulder and PhD (East Asian Studies) from Columbia University. She is Associate Professor of Chinese literature at University of Maryland and will join the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Division of Humanities, in September 2012. Research Interests: Modern and contemporary Chinese fiction, classical Chinese fiction, gender studies, the relationship between literature and religion, popular culture, and films studies.

Eli MARSHALL MMus (Master of Music), Hamburg Hochschule für Musikund Theater Visiting Scholar Eli Marshall studied music composition at Bard College, the Yale School of Music, and the Curtis Institute of Music. He was a Fulbright Fellow (2003) to China and holds a Master of Music degree (2011) from the Hamburg Hochschule für Musik. From 2005-2009, Eli was artistic director of the Beijing New Music Ensemble. In 2011, he was composer-in-residence at the Witten/Herdecke University, where he taught an interdisciplinary seminar on the sociology of Western music history. Research interests: Music composition, cultural theories of music, East-West music interaction, acoustics.