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Faculty of Humanities
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies
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Department of Literature and Cultural Studies

Prof ERNI , John Nguyet

Prof ERNI , John Nguyet

Dean(HM) / Faculty of Humanities
Chair Professor
ProfileResearch InterestsSelected OutputsProjectsResearch GrantsAwards & Fellowships (Selected)

Scholarly Books, Monographs and Chapters

  • Erni, J. N. & Striphas, T. (Eds.) (2022). The Cultural Politics of COVID-19. New York & London: Routledge.
  • Erni, J.N. (2022). Color Charts: A Cultural Chronicle of Non-Chinese Ethnic Images in Hong Kong Cinema. In M. Hjort & T. Nannicelli (Eds.), A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value (357-381). Massachussetts: Wiley Blackwell.
  • Erni, J.N. & Zhang, Y. (2020). Ethnic minority youth as digital cultural participants: Toward a critical indicator study. Sunny Sui-kwong LAM, New media spectacles and multimodal creativity in a globalised Asia: Art, design and activism in the digital humanities landscape (3-24). Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7341-5_1
  • Erni, J.N. (2019). Law and cultural studies: A critical rearticulation of human rights. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315575377
  • Erni, J.N. (2019). The antiecstasy of human rights: A foray into queer cinema on “homophobic Africa”. Mette HJORT, Eva JØRHOLT, African cinema and human rights (256-279). USA: Indiana University Press. https://julac.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,991017773891103410&vid=EDUHKFind@EdUHK Library
  • Erni, J.N. (2019). W v. Registrar of Marriages (2013). Howard CHIANG, Global encyclopedia of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) history (1713-1716). Gale. https://julac.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,991017965129603410&vid=EDUHKFind@EdUHK Library
  • Erni, J.N. (2019)。 種族劃分主義。朱耀偉， 《香港關鍵詞：想像新未來》 (233-244)。中文大學出版社。 https://julac.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,991017413313703410&vid=EDUHKFind@EdUHK Library
  • Henderson, Lisa, Erni, John N., Hogan, Mél, and Christian, Aymar Jean (2018). A dossier on making and doing. Adrienne SHAW, D. Travers SCOTT, Interventions: Communication research and practice (273-283). Peter Lang Publishing. https://julac.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,991017991114603410&vid=EDUHKFind@EdUHK Library
  • Erni, J.N., Zhang, Y. (2018). In with expectations and out with disappointment: Gay-tailored social media and the redefinition of intimacy. Rikke ANDREASSEN, Michael Nebeling PETERSEN, Katherine HARRISON, Tobias RAUN, Mediated intimacies: Connectivities, relationalities and proximities (143-156). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315208589-13
  • Erni, J.N. (2017). Introduction: Affect and critical multiculturalism in Asia. John Nguyet ERNI, Visuality, emotions and minority culture: Feeling ethnic (1-9). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53861-6_1
  • Erni, J.N. (2017). Sex and freedom in the chatroom: The Hong Kong golden forum as method. Yiu-Wai CHU, Hong Kong culture and society in the new millennium: Hong Kong as method (33-58). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3668-2_2
  • In J. N. ERNI (Ed.) (2017). Visuality, emotions and minority culture: Feeling ethnic. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53861-6
  • Erni, J.N., Ho, L. (2017). Happy campers: “All about us” and self-representation. John Nguyet ERNI, Visuality, emotions and minority culture: Feeling ethnic (93-110). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53861-6_7
  • Fung, A. Y. H., Erni, J. N., & Yang, F. (2017). Asian popular culture review. Toby MILLER, The Routledge companion to global popular culture (481-491). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203081846-54
  • Erni, J.N. (2016). Afterword: On meta-media for trans-Asia. Daniel BLACK, Olivia KHOO, Koichi IWABUCHI, Contemporary culture and media in Asia (225-230). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. https://julac.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,991007148969703410&vid=EDUHKFind@EdUHK Library
  • Erni, J.N. (2016). Internet sex chatting and “vernacular masculinity” among Hong Kong youth. Julia COFFEY, Shelley BUDGEON, Helen CAHILL, Learning bodies: The body in youth and childhood studies (105-122). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0306-6_7
  • 陳錦榮, 何建宗 (2016)。 若隱若現：香港電影的非華人形象（1970至2010年代）。手民出版社。 https://julac.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,991017866260203410&vid=EDUHKFind@EdUHK Library
  • 陳錦榮、何建宗和楊春 (2016)。 香港電影的另一面。陳錦榮, 何建宗， 若隱若現：香港電影的非華人形象（1970至2010年代） (4-12)。手民出版社。 https://julac.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,991017866260203410&vid=EDUHKFind@EdUHK Library
  • Erni, J.N. (2015). The dis-encompassed: On the precarious politics of citizenship management. Terence Patrick MURPHY, John Nguyet ERNI, Between literary and cultural studies: Asian explorations (1-18). Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
  • Murphy, T. P., Erni, J. N. (2015). Between literary and cultural studies: Asian explorations. Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
  • Erni, J. N., Leung, L. Y.-M. (2014). Understanding South Asian minorities in Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press. https://julac.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,991002390199703410&vid=EDUHKFind@EdUHK Library
  • Erni, J.N. (2014). Marriage rights for transgender people in Hong Kong: Reading the W case. Deborah S. DAVIS, Sara L. FRIEDMAN, Wives, husbands, and lovers marriage and sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and urban China (189-216). Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804791854-011
  • Erni, J.N. (2014)。 女孩的空間。香港藝術中心， 創意全記錄：影像無國界 (31-33)。香港藝術中心。 https://julac.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,991004407489703410&vid=EDUHKFind@EdUHK Library, https://allaboutus.hk/2014/tc/blog/?p=134published version
  • Erni, J.N. (2014)。 從懲罰到寬恕。香港藝術中心， 創意全記錄：影像無國界 (28-30)。香港藝術中心。 https://julac.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,991004407489703410&vid=EDUHKFind@EdUHK Library, https://allaboutus.hk/2014/tc/blog/?p=132published version
  • Erni, J.N. (2014)。 權力和真實性。香港藝術中心， 創意全記錄：影像無國界 (24-27)。香港藝術中心。 https://julac.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,991004407489703410&vid=EDUHKFind@EdUHK Library, https://allaboutus.hk/2014/tc/blog/?p=130published version
  • 陳錦榮 (2014)。 不陌生的陌生人：香港少數族裔的陌生化。文潔華， 粤語的政治：香港粤語的異質與多元 (117-132)。中文大學出版社。 https://julac.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,991017307819403410&vid=EDUHKFind@EdUHK Library
  • Erni, J.N. (2013). Law, embodiment, and the case of ‘harbourcide’. Jeroen DE KLOET, Lena SCHEEN, Spectacle and the city: Chinese urbanities in art and popular culture (227-242). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wp73q.17
  • Erni, J.N. (2013). When Chinese youth meet Harry Potter: Translating consumption and middle-class identification. Anthony Y.H. FUNG, Asian popular culture: The global (dis)continuity (21-41). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203581278
  • Erni, J.N. (2012). Chan Pak-keung, Danny. May HOLDSWORTH, Christopher MUNN, Dictionary of Hong Kong biography (73-74). Hong Kong University Press. https://julac.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,991014925059703410&vid=EDUHKFind@EdUHK Library
  • Erni, J.N. (2012). Cheung Kwok-wing, Leslie. May HOLDSWORTH, Christopher MUNN, Dictionary of Hong Kong biography (86-87). Hong Kong University Press. https://julac.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,991014925059703410&vid=EDUHKFind@EdUHK Library
  • Erni, J.N. (2012). Mui Yim-fong, Anita. May HOLDSWORTH, Christopher MUNN, Dictionary of Hong Kong biography (330-331). Hong Kong University Press. https://julac.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,991014925059703410&vid=EDUHKFind@EdUHK Library
  • Erni, J.N. (2012). Who needs human rights? Cultural studies and public institutions. Meaghan MORRIS, Mette HJORT, Creativity and academic activism: Instituting cultural studies (175-190). Hong Kong University Press. https://julac.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,991017512831803410&vid=EDUHKFind@EdUHK Library
  • Erni, J.N. (2008). Hall, Stuart. Wolfgang DONSBACH, The international encyclopedia of communication. John Wiley and Sons Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405186407.wbiech028

Journal Publications

 

  • Erni, J.N. (2025). Re-articulating care and carelessness in precarious times: An introduction. Educational Philosophy and Theory. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2024.2442745
  • Erni, J.N., Pun, N. (2025). Introduction: Commoning as unthinkable politics: Hong Kong against hard times. Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2024.2442439
  • Erni, J.N. (2024). Between consciousness and conscience: on ‘restorative commoning’ among moderate youth. Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2024.2442448
  • Erni, J.N. (2024). Negative Justice: The Case of the Human Rights Museum. European Journal of Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494241258972
  • Erni, J.N. (2022). Discerning the Human Rights Museum. European Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, 2(4), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.24018/ejsocial.2022.2.4.275.
  • Erni, J.N. & Zhang, Y. (2022). Wild hopes: Sourcing the political vocabulary of digital citizenship from the LIHKG forum. International Communication Gazette, 84(4), 349-375. https://doi.org/10.1177/17480485221094123
  • Erni, J.N. (2021). Is ethnic cultural participation the answer?: A cultural capacity analysis. Situations, 14(1), 1-33. https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/ci/sereArticleSearch/ciSereArtiView.kci?sereArticleSearchBean.artiId=ART002699652published version
  • Erni, J.N. (2021). Toward a juris-cultural studies of human rights. IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, 6(Special Issue), 3-14. https://doi.org/10.22492/ijcs.6.SI.01
  • Erni, J.N. & Striphas, T. (2021). COVID-19, the multiplier. Cultural Studies, 35(2-3), 211-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2021.1903957
  • Erni, John N; Leung, Daren (2019). The dilemma of mobility: On the question of youth voluntourism in times of precarity. Cultural Studies, 33(6), 915-943. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1660691
  • Martin, F., Erni, J.N., Yue, A. (2019). (Im)mobile precarity in the Asia-Pacific. Cultural Studies, 33(6), 895-914. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1660690
  • Erni, J.N. (2016). Citizenship management: On the politics of being included-out. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 19(3), 323-340. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877915573772
  • Erni, J.N. (2016). Disrupting the colonial transgender/law nexus: Reading the case of W in Hong Kong. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 16(4), 351-360. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708616643987
  • Erni, J.N. (2015). A legal realist view on citizen actions in Hong Kong's umbrella movement. Chinese Journal of Communication, 8(4), 412-419. https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2015.1063526
  • Erni, J.N. (2014). Locating desires—screens and urban culture in Asia: Notes on the special issue. Situations, 7(2), 1-11. http://situations.yonsei.ac.kr/product/item.php?it_id=1535539152&ca_id=1080&page=1&sort1=&sort2=published version
  • Erni, J.N. (2013). Cultural studies meets rights criticism. Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies, 10(2-3), 238-241. https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2013.812593
  • Erni, J.N. (2013). Legitimating transphobia: The legal disavowal of transgender rights in prison. Cultural Studies, 27(1), 136-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2012.722305
  • Fung, A. Y. H., Erni, J. N. (2013). Cultural clusters and cultural industries in China. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 14(4), 644-656. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2013.831207
  • Erni, J.N. (2012). Who needs strangers? Un-imagining Hong Kong Chineseness. Chinese Journal of Communication, 5(1), 78-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2011.647748

 

Conference Papers

 

  • Erni, J.N. (2022, June). Recognizing the Unrecognizable: The Case of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Paper accepted for presentation at the 2022 Cultural Studies Association Conference (unattended due to COVID-19 travel restrictions), Chicago, USA.
  • Erni, J.N. (2022, May). Art, Surveillance Culture, and Hong Kong’s National Security Law. Paper accepted for presentation at the 72nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (unattended due to COVID-19 travel restrictions), Paris, France.
  • Erni, J.N. (2021, August). Clashing Aspirations?: Experiences of Youth Volunteering in Times of Social Unrest. Paper accepted for presentation at The 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars (unattended due to COVID-19 travel restrictions), Kyoto, Japan.
  • Erni, J.N. (2021, July). Critical Remarks at the Closing Roundtable. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Virtual Conference, Singapore.
  • Erni, J.N. (2021, July). Weaponizing COVID-19: A Cultural Chronicle. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Virtual Conference, Singapore.
  • Erni, John N. (2019). Open world empire: Rethinking law, culture, and rights. Proceedings of international conference: "Peace and Conflict Resolution Conference 2019", Bangkok, Thailand. https://www.pcrconference.org/pcrc2019-proceedings.htmlpublished version
  • Erni, J.N. (2015, May). On citizenship management: The curious lives of the “included-outs”. Paper presented at The 65th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association
  • Erni, J.N. (2014, November). The curious lives of the "included-outs". Paper presented at Monash Asia Institute's International Conference "Asian Cultural and Media Studies Now"

All Other Outputs

  • Erni, J.N. (2016). Transgendering the law [Review of the book Transforming citizenships: Transgender articulations of the law, by Isaac West]. Cultural Studies (1031-1034). publisher. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2015.1007387