Audrey Chan, St John's

Biographical Information

Audrey Chan is a PhD student reading English at St. John’s College of the University of Cambridge and a Gallery Assistant at Heong Gallery, Downing College. Her research project focuses on Hemingway’s transcultural experience in transmedial arts and the influences of diasporic Spanish and Cuban artists on his writing. She was the convenor of the Twentieth Century and Contemporary Research Seminar at Cambridge. She has worked with renowned artists like Ai Weiwei to organise art events to explore the intersections between art and social activism at various institutions, including the Fitzwilliam Museum and Heong Gallery. She is also the Vice President of St John’s Samuel Butler Room (the MCR postgraduate society). She has also recently been awarded the Noonan Award, Frank Hollick Fund, Blake Emerging Scholar Award, and the Jim and Nancy Hinkle Student Travel Grants. Audrey earned an MSc in Literature and Modernity: 1900 to the Present at the University of Edinburgh with Distinction.

 

Research Interests

My research interest lies in the interdisciplinary studies between contemporary literature and the visual arts.

 

Selected Publications

Peer-reviewed articles and books:

Pun, Jack, and Audrey Chan. Exploring clinical communication in Asia: culture, discipline, best practice, clinicians’ voice. Bloomsbury, forthcoming.

Chan, Audrey. “The Aesthetics of Mythical Cityscapes from Cubism to Ultraísmo: The Metaphysical Quests for Collective National Identities in Joyce’s Dublin and Borges’ Buenos Aires.” eSharp, vol. 31, 2024, gla.ac.uk/research/az/esharp/esharp/31winter2023-memory/.

Chan, Audrey. “Alberto Breccia’s Parody of Futurist Paintings in Modern Bande Dessinée: Resisting Transatlantic Fascism.” FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & The Arts, vol. 34, Oct. 2023, doi:10.2218/forum.1.9149.

Chan, Audrey. “Sailing Beyond Capitalist Disciplinarity: Kraus and Nelson’s Conceptual Boat and Performative Writing as ‘Failures.’” Ad Alta, vol. XII, Mar. 2022, https://issuu.com/adaltabjl/docs/ad_alta_2020-21. 

Chan, Audrey. “The Contemporary Art of the Nature Morte in the Age of Artificial Life Forms: The Metafictional Illusion of Life in Installation Art and Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein.” FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & The Arts, no. 32, Oct. 2021, doi:10.2218/forum.32.6469. 

Chan, Audrey. “Book Review: Violent Minds: Modernism and the Criminal.” Crime Fiction Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, Sept. 2021, doi:10.3366/cfs.2021.0049 

 

Conference papers:

Chan, Audrey. “The Transformation of Life Forms in Hemingway and Miró’s Primitive Spanish Land: Boxing as Creative Processes and the Aesthetics of Movements.” 2024 Hemingway Society Conference: EH-EH: Ernest Hemingway and EUSKAL HERRIA, Hemingway Society, 14-20 July 2024, Kursaal and Hotel Carlton, San Sebastian and Bilbao. Conference Presentation.

Chan, Audrey. “The Everyday Museum in Matisse’s Paintings: A. S. Byatt’s Matisse Stories." What Happens Now 2023 Conference, British Association For Contemporary Literary Studies, 6-8 September 2023, University of Birmingham. Conference Presentation.

Chan, Audrey. “The Aesthetics of Mythical Cityscapes from Cubism to Ultraísmo: The Metaphysical Quest for National Identity in Joyce’s Dublin and Borges’ Buenos Aires.” Postcolonial Fault-lines: Branching into the Unknown, University of Glasgow, 10-12 October 2022, University of Glasgow, Online. Conference Presentation. 

Chan, Audrey. “The Unrepresentable Female Body: Persian Miniatures and Myths in Persepolis. Women in World(-)Literature, Warwick Research Collective, 22-23 June 2022, University of Warwick. Conference Presentation. 

Chan, Audrey. “When Indian Art Meets the West in The Moor’s Last Sigh: Repainting Indian Modernist Art Beyond British Colonialism and Secular Nationalism.” Annual Meeting 2022, American Comparative Literature Association, 15-18 June 2022, National Taiwan Normal University, Online. Conference Presentation. 

Chan, Audrey. “The Contemporary Art of the Nature Morte in the Age of Artificial Life Forms: The Metafictional Illusion of Life in Installation Art and Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein.” Futurity in Crisis, Ctrl Network, 24 June 2021, University of Birmingham, Zoom. Flash Presentation. 

Chan, Audrey. “Alberto Breccia’s Parody of Futurist Paintings in Modern Bande Dessinée: Resisting Transatlantic Fascism.” Transitions 9: New Directions in Comics Studies, The Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Literature, 9 April 2021, Birkbeck, University of London, Microsoft Teams. Conference Presentation. 

Chan, Audrey. “Haruki Murakami’s Rhizomatic Underground: Traumatic Memory and New Journalism.” Canon and Values in Contemporary Literary Studies, Contemporary Studies Network, 12 December 2020, University of Birmingham, Zoom. Conference Presentation.