John Nguyet Erni
Professor
Humanities
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
China
Biography
Academic training in cultural studies, communication theory and research, media studies, and international human rights law. Elected Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities in 2014. Elected the Academy's President in 2017. Previously Head of Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, and taught at City University of Hong Kong, University of New Hampshire, and University of Wisconsin. Educated at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (PhD), University of Oregon (MA), University of Hong Kong (LLM in Human Rights), and Whitworth University (BA). Research focus on international and Asia-based media and cultural studies; gender and sexual politics related to media and visual culture; youth popular culture studies in transnational contexts; critical public health studies; the cultural politics of race/ethnicity; human rights philosophy and politics.
Research Interest
Cultural studies, cultural theories, media studies, research methods, critical race theory, queer theory, human rights, legal humanities
Publications
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Erni JN (2013) When Chinese Kids meet Harry Potter:Translating Consumption and Middle-class Identification. In Anthony Y.H. Fung (ed.), Asian Popular Culture: The Global Discontinuity. New York: Taylor and Francis pp: 21-41.
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Erni JN (2014) Understanding South Asian Minorities in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
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Erni JN (2016) Cultural Studies, Human Rights, and the Legal Imagination: Reframing Critical Justice. UK: Ashgate Publishing.
