Tze-yue G. Hu

Lecturer
SIAS/MLLL
Hester Hall, Room 132
(405) 325-2918
tze.yue.g.hu-1@ou.edu

Tze-yue G. Hu received her B.A. from the National University of Singapore. Her majors were philosophy and political science with a minor in Chinese studies. She began her graduate work in English studies and media culture at Strathclyde University, United Kingdom and received her M. Litt. in 1992. She was a full-time lecturer at a polytechnic design school in Singapore from 1993-96 where she taught courses in the fields of cultural and communication studies. With the award of a scholarship from the University of Hong Kong in 1997, she continued her graduate studies at the Dept. of Comparative Literature and received her Ph.D. in 2002. Her postdoctoral teaching commenced at the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University. In 2003, she was awarded a Japan Foundation Fellowship at Waseda University, Division of Cinema and Theater Arts.

From 2005-07, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Oklahoma, School of International and Area Studies. She became an adjunct lecturer in 2008 teaching an upper division course East Asian Identities and Cultural Trends. Her monograph work Frames of Anime – Culture and Image-Building, will soon be published by the University of Hong Kong Press (due December 2009). Her various journal articles and book chapters have been translated into French, Japanese and Chinese. For a sample of her work see this link, http://anm.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/2/1/43. She is also an editorial board member of Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal. She is presently engaged in co-editing a book of articles with Yokota Masao (chair of the Japanese Society for Animation Studies and a psychology professor at Nihon University) entitled, Teaching and Researching Japanese Animation: Asian Perspectives. Her current research focuses on visual representations of East Asia with interest in fantastic thinking and media creations and cross East-West cultural imagination.

For the 2009 fall semester, her adjunct lecturing position is a joint appointment in the School of International and Area Studies, and Department of Modern Literatures, Languages, and Linguistics. She is currently teaching a new IAS lower division course, Survey of Asian Civilizations and Cultures and a MLLL upper division course, Modern Japan through Film and Literature.