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I focus on digital humanities, media studies, and contemporary literature in English. I hold a PhD from the English Department of the University of California, Irvine, with a concentration in critical theory.
My previous writing has appeared or will appear in College Literature, Contemporary Literature, Critique, Life Writing, Mosaic, Partial Answers, Post45, Textual Practice, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and elsewhere. I am the co-editor of a collection of essays entitled Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture.
For several years, I explored the capacities and affordances of social annotation technologies for teaching literature. Results appeared in Arts and Humanities in Higher Educationand English in Education.
I founded the large-scale community reading project 我城我書 / One City One Book Hong Kong and am general editor of Xi Xi City, a digital humanities project that celebrates the work of Hong Kong's most delightful writer.
My office is B3-2/F-17.
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Hong Kong Education Bureau Curriculum Development Council / Examinations and Assessment Authority, Committee on Literature in English, 2019-2025.
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Whitman on the Grid: Surveillance, Democracy, and the Autobiographical Moment in Contemporary American Literature
CLAPP, J. M. (PI)
01/01/17 → 31/12/18
Project: Research project
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The ethics of alterity and the ethics of care in literary studies
CLAPP, J. M., 2025, In: Educational Philosophy and Theory. 57, 3, p. 262-273Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
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Seductions of form in contemporary autofiction
CLAPP, J. M., Mar 2024, In: Contemporary Literature. 64, 1, p. 1-23Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
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The feeling of thinking: Social annotation with emojis
CLAPP, J. M. & BANERJEE, B., 2024, In: English in Education. 58, 2, p. 160-177Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
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One Book? One City?: Community reading in Hong Kong
CLAPP, J. M., Dec 2022.Research output: Contribution to conference › Papers
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Review of the book Lindsay Thomas, Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11
CLAPP, J. M., 2022, In: American Literary History. 34, 4, p. 1718-1721Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review