FHM Researchers - Dr ZHANG Zimu
FHM Researchers - Dr ZHANG Zimu
Assistant Professor
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS)
Research Area(s):
- Cultural Studies
- Environmental Humanities
- Film Studies
I am an environmental humanities scholar working on visual culture, eco-cinema, and ecofeminist arts. I also practice filmmaking and curation. I welcome prospective students with research interests in the above-mentioned areas to get in touch with me to discuss their research proposals and supervision opportunities.
Selected Publications:
Zhang, Z. (2026). A Frog’s Anthropocene Story: An Ecofeminist Reading of Delta Amphibiousness Through the Novel Chao Xi Tu. Environmental Humanities, 18(2), 247-263.
Zhang, Z. (2025). Free-Roaming Bovids in Hong Kong, Worlding the More-Than-Human Care. European Journal of Cultural Studies,
Zhang, Z. (2025). Water on Cross-Border Screens, Hong Kong Water Tales from the 1960s. Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 1–19.
Zhang, Z., Wang, J., & Zheng, K. (2025). Conferencing as Environing with Care: Organising an Environmental Humanities Symposium in Hong Kong. Knowledge Cultures, 13(1), 139-162.
Zhang, Z. (2025). Village film and place-based film archive: Towards an ecological and archival Chinese independent documentary. In C. Berry, L. Robinson, S. Q. Yu, & L. Wu (Eds.), Chinese independent cinema: Past, present, and a questionable future (pp. 261-284). Amsterdam University Press.
Fellowships and Grants:
Early Career Scheme Grant (UGC), 2026 - 2028 (Principal Investigator): “Tracing the Chinese Pearl River Waterscape through Eco-arts”
Start-up Grant Research (EdUHK), 2024 (Principal Investigator): “Mapping Contemporary Ecological Moving Image Practices in the Pearl River Delta Region (PRD)”
Worldmaking China Fellow (2025), Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University
VisitANTS in Critical Studies of Biodiversity and the Anthropocene Research Fellowship (2023), University of Oulu, Finland
Landhaus Fellowship(2022), Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Joint initiative of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich & the Deutsches Museum
Audiovisual Essay Proposal Grant(2022), Asian Film Archive (Singapore)