Dr TSE, Yin Nga Kelly    謝延雅 博士
Associate Professor
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies
Contact
ORCiD
0000-0002-4143-3633
Phone
(852) 2948 7383
Email
yntse@eduhk.hk
Address
10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong
Website
https://pappl.eduhk.hk/rich/web/person.xhtml?pid=271945&name=TSE, Yin Nga Kelly
Scopus ID
57202336454
Research Interests
  • World literature
  • Colonial and postcolonial writing
  • Hong Kong literature
  • Asian studies
Teaching Interests
  • World literature
  • Colonial and postcolonial writing
  • Hong Kong literature
  • Asian studies
Personal Profile

Dr. Kelly Yin Nga Tse is Associate Professor of English. She received her DPhil in English from the University of Oxford, and her MPhil and BA from the University of Hong Kong.

Her research and teaching interests lie in world literature, colonial and postcolonial writing, Hong Kong literature, and Asian studies. Her recent works have appeared in NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, and The Oxford Handbook of Southeast Asian Englishes, amongst others.



Research Interests
  • World literature
  • Colonial and postcolonial writing
  • Hong Kong literature
  • Asian studies
Teaching Interests
  • World literature
  • Colonial and postcolonial writing
  • Hong Kong literature
  • Asian studies
Research Outputs
Scholarly Books, Monographs and Chapters
Chapter in an edited book (author)
Tse, Kelly Yin Nga (2025). Perilous Pacific: Thanatic Archive and Vietnamese Refugees. In Banerjee, Bidisha , Judith Misrahi-Barak, and Thomas Lacroix (Eds.), Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces (00). Routledge.
Tse, Y.N.K. (2024). English-Language Literature of Hong Kong. In A.J. Moody (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Southeast Asian Englishes (pp. 361-379). United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192855282.013.19
Tse, Y.N.K. (2021). Cinematic Erasure: Translating Southeast/Asia in Crazy Rich Asians. In G.V.S. Chin (Ed.), Translational Politics in Southeast Asian Literatures: Contesting Race, Gender, and Sexuality (pp. 151-170). Abingdon, England & New York, America: Routledge.

Journal Publications
Publication in refereed journal
Tse, Kelly Yin Nga (2025). Looking Awry in Timothy Mo. Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 58 (1), 36-58. https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-11679288
Tse, Y.N.K. (2023). Perilous Pacific: Thanatic Archive and Vietnamese Refugees. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Latest Articles, online. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2190911
Tse, Kelly Yin Nga (2022). Queering imperial history: The ethics of reconciliation in Tan Twan Eng’s The gift of rain. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 57(1), 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989418769447

Conference Papers
Invited conference paper
Tse, Y.N.K. (2023, August). Hong Kong Literature and Port Poetics [Invited talk]. University of Macau Conference on "Blurred Boundaries: Islands, Ports, and Borders in Global History and Literature", Macau.
Refereed conference paper
Tse, Y.N.K. (2023, July). Reading Asian Waters [Paper presentation]. Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences Conference on "Reclaiming the Commons", virtual. https://aessconference.org/
Tse, Y.N.K. (2023, April). Maritime Crisis and the Language of Materiality [Paper presentation]. British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference, Edinburgh Napier University, virtual. https://www.bsls.ac.uk/2023-conference-edinburgh-napier/
Tse, Y.N.K. (2023, April). Of Boats and Bodies at Sea [Paper presentation]. Haunted Shores Network Annual Conference on "Aquatic Surfaces & Depths", virtual. https://haunted-shores.com/haunted-shores-2023-aquatic-surfaces-depths/
Other conference paper
Tse, Y.N.K. (2024, June). Teaching Hong Kong Literature [Paper presentation]. Transformation and Development in Teaching and Research: Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Hong Kong. https://www.fste.edu.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/HKUSPACECC_Conf_20240607_Rundown.pdf
Tse, Y.N.K. (2024, April). Archipelagic Asia and the Rhetoric of Hope [Paper presentation]. Critical Island Studies 2024 Colloquium, Macau. https://fah.um.edu.mo/department-of-english/critical-island-studies-conference-2024/

Projects
Asia and the Blue Humanities

Project Start Year: 2023, Principal Investigator(s): TSE, Yin Nga, Kelly

 
Redressing Atrocities: Forms of Reconciliation in Postcolonial Southeast Asian Literature
This project offers a critical exposition of reconciliation in contemporary Southeast Asian literature in English.
Project Start Year: 2022, Principal Investigator(s): TSE, Yin Nga, Kelly

 
Oceanic Poetics: Imagining Asian Migrant Subjectivities
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Project Start Year: 2020, Principal Investigator(s): TSE, Yin Nga Kelly 謝延雅

 
Repairing Asia-Pacific Environments: An Ecocritical Study
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Project Start Year: 2020, Principal Investigator(s): TSE, Yin Nga Kelly 謝延雅