Guo-Juin Hong, Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Film historiography, film theory, sound studies, postcolonial theory and theories of culture and globalization; film and other media of Taiwan, Hong Kong and China

Contact Info:

Office Location:	2204 Erwin Road, Room 220, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2026):

• AMES 631.01, NATIONAL CINEMAS Synopsis

  Franklin 230, Th 01:25 PM-03:55 PM

  (also cross-listed as CINE 632.01, LIT 632.01, VMS 632.01)

• MFAEDA 721.01, CRITIQUE II Synopsis

  Carpentry 201, F 10:15 AM-01:15 PM

• MFAEDA 723.01, CRITIQUE IV Synopsis

  Carpentry 201, F 10:15 AM-01:15 PM

Office Hours:

Tuesday 10:00-12:00 and by appointment

Education:

Ph.D.	University of California, Berkeley	2004
M.A.	San Francisco State University	1995
B.A.	Fu Jen Catholic University (Taiwan)	1991

Specialties:

Chinese

Research Interests:

Film historiography, film theory, sound studies, postcolonial theory and theories of culture and globalization; film and other media of Taiwan, Hong Kong and China

Keywords:

Motion picture film • Propaganda • Voice

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Chia-Yu Hsu  
• Rodger Frey  

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Hong, GJ, Our neighbors (1963): Historiography of home and emerging realism in post-1949 Taiwan, in Thirty Two New Takes on Taiwan Cinema (December, 2022), pp. 22-35, ISBN 9780472075461
2. G. Hong, Limits of Visibility: Taiwan's Tongzhi Movement in Mickey Chen's Documentaries, positions: asia critique, vol. 21 no. 3 (Summer, 2013), pp. 683-701
3. Hong, GJ, Voices and their discursive Dis/Content in Taiwan documentary, Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, vol. 7 no. 2 (January, 2013), pp. 183-193, ISSN 1673-7318 [doi]  [abs]
4. Hong, G, Theatrics of Cruising: Bath Houses and Movie Houses in Tsia Ming-Linag’s Films, in Queer Sinophone Cultures, edited by Chiang, H; Heinrich, AL (2013), Routledge
5. Hong, G, Voice and Its Dis/Content in New Taiwan Documentary, Frontiers of Literary Studies in China (2012)