Teaching Staff
Prof. John Nguyet ERNI | 陳錦榮教授

Fung Hon Chu Endowed Chair of Humanics, Chair Professor in Humanities and Department Head
Office: RRS 605
Tel: 3411 7860
Email: johnerni@hkbu.edu.hk
Selected Funded Projects:
2012-present, Erni, John, Principal Investigator, “Cultural Studies, Human Rights, and the Legal Imagination: Reframing Critical Justice.” A book project with Ashgate Publishing UK.
2012-2014, Erni, John, Principal Investigator, “Visual Narratives and the Making of Ethnic Feelings: A Cultural Study of Affect, Ethnicity, and Practices of Social Recognition among South Asians in Hong Kong,” RGC GRF (HKD936,406).
2010-2014, Erni, John, Co-Investigator, “Mapping the Hong Kong Game Industry: Cultural Policy, Creativity and the Asian MARKET,” RGC Strategic Public Policy Grant (HKD3.5 million)
2010-2012 , Erni, John, Principal Investigator, “Sex/Text: A Netnographic Analysis of Internet Sex Chatting and ‘Vernacular Masculinity’ in Hong Kong,” Direct Research Grant, Lingnan University (HKD108,000)
2008-2009, Erni, John, Principal Investigator, “Toward an Interconnected Cultural Citizenship: An Empirical Study of a Transborder Public Culture of Health in the Hong Kong-Guangdong Region,” RGC CERG (HKD505,050)
2006-2007, Erni, John, Principal Investigator, “Agents of Cultural Circulation: An Empirical Study of the Tourist Service Class as Cultural Intermediaries in the Pearl River Delta,” RGC CERG (HKD586,336)
2003-2005, Erni, John, Principal Investigator, “Transnational Text, Local Reading: A Reception Study of Harry Potter and the Formation of Middle-class Culture in Urban China,” RGC CERG (HKD566,600)
1999-2001, Erni, John, Co-Investigator, “Popular Culture Consumption and Youth Identities in Hong Kong: Trajectories and Transitions,” RGC CERG (HKD452,000)
Representative Publications:
2016 (forthcoming), Erni, John N. Cultural Studies, Human Rights, and the Legal Imagination: Reframing Critical Justice. UK: Ashgate Publishing.
2014, Erni, John N. and Leung, Lisa, Understanding South Asian Minorities in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
2013, Erni, John N. “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, 21-41.
2013, Erni, John N.“Law, Embodiment, and the Case of ‘Harborcide’.” In Jeroen de Kloet & Lena Scheen (eds.), Spectacle and the city – Urbanity in popular culture and art in East Asia. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 227-242.
2012, Erni, John N. “Who Needs Strangers?: Un-imagining Hong Kong Chineseness.” Chinese Journal of Communication, 5(1): 1-10.
2012, Erni, John N. “Who Needs Human Rights: Cultural Studies and Public Institutions.” In Meaghan Morris and Mette Hjort (eds.), Creativity and Academic Activism: Instituting Cultural Studies. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 175-190.
2011, Erni, John N. “Legal Education and the Rise of Rights-consciousness in China.” In Zelizer, Barbie (ed.), Making the University Matter. London and New York: Routledge, 228-235.
2011, Erni, John N. (Ed.). Cultural Studies of Rights: Critical Articulations. New York & London: Routledge.
2009, Erni, John N. “War, ‘Incendiary Media’, International Human Rights Law.” Media, Culture & Society, 31(6): 1-20.
2009, Erni, John N. “Human Rights in the Neo-liberal Imagination: Mapping the ‘New Sovereignties’,” Cultural Studies, 23(3): 417-436.
2008, Erni, John N. “Enchanted: Harry Potter and Magical Capitalism in Urban China.” Chinese Journal of Communication, 1(2): 138-155.
2008, Erni, John N. “Almost Under the Same Sky: Reclaiming Urbanity beyond an Epidemic.” Meaghan Morris, ed., Special Issue on “Urban Imaginaries,” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 9(4): 598-611.
2007, Erni, John N. “SARS, Avian Flu, and the Urban Double-take.” In Deborah Davis & Helen Siu (eds.), SARS: Reception and Interpretation in Three Chinese Cities. New York: Routledge, 45-73.
2007, Erni, John N. “Gender and Everyday Evasions: Moving with Cantopop,” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 8(1) (March): 86-105.
2006, Erni, John N. “Epidemic Imaginary: Performing Global Figurations of ‘Third World AIDS’,” Space and Culture: International Journal of Social Spaces, 9(4): 429-452.
2005, Erni, John N. & Chua Siew Keng (Eds.) Asian Media Studies: Politics of Subjectivities. Oxford, UK; Malden, Mass.; Victoria, Australia: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
2005, Abbas, Ackbar & Erni, John N. (Eds.). Internationalizing Cultural Studies: An Anthology. Oxford, UK; Malden, Mass.; Victoria, Australia: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Translated into Chinese edition, published by Peking University Press, June 2006.
2001, Erni, John N. and Spires, Anthony J. (2001). “Glossy Subjects: G & L Magazine and ‘Tongzhi’ Cultural Visibility in Taiwan,” Sexualities, 4(1): 25-49.
2001, Erni, John N. “Media Studies and Cultural Studies: A Symbiotic Convergence.” In Toby Miller (ed.), A Companion to Cultural Studies. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 187-213.
2001, Erni, John N. “Like a Postcolonial Culture: Hong Kong Re-imagined,”Cultural Studies, 15(3/4): 389-418.
1998, Erni, John N. “Queer Figurations in the Media: Critical Reflections on the Michael Jackson Sex Scandal,” Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 15: 158-180.
1994, Erni, John N. Unstable Frontiers: Technomedicine and the Cultural Politics of “Curing” AIDS. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Selected Grants:
2012-2014, Erni, John, Principal Investigator, “Visual Narratives and the Making of Ethnic Feelings: A Cultural Study of Affect, Ethnicity, and Practices of Social Recognition among South Asians in Hong Kong,” RGC GRF (HKD936,406).
2010-2014, Erni, John, Co-Investigator, “Mapping the Hong Kong Game Industry: Cultural Policy, Creativity and the Asian Market,” RGC Strategic Public Policy Grant (HKD3.5 million)
2010-2012 , Erni, John, Principal Investigator, “Sex/Text: A Netnographic Analysis of Internet Sex Chatting and ‘Vernacular Masculinity’ in Hong Kong,” Direct Research Grant, Lingnan University (HKD108,000)
2009-2011, Erni, John, Principal Investigator, “Human Rights as Legal-cultural Struggles: Examining Three Landmark Cases and Issues in Post-1997 Hong Kong,” Direct Research Grant, Lingnan University (HKD95,000)
2009-2010 , Erni, John, Principal Investigator, “Reconstructing the Cultural Aspirations of Middle-classness among Young Adults: An Empirical Investigation,” Academic Programme Research Grant (Arts), Lingnan University (HKD30,000)
2008-2009, Erni, John, Principal Investigator, “Toward an Interconnected Cultural Citizenship: An Empirical Study of a Transborder Public Culture of Health in the Hong Kong-Guangdong Region,” RGC CERG (HKD505,050)
2007-2008, Erni, John, Principal Investigator, “Race, Culture and Law: A Study of the Formation of Subjecthood among Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong,” Academic Programme Research Grant (Arts), Lingnan University (HKD29,600; USD3,795)
2006-2007, Erni, John, Principal Investigator, “Agents of Cultural Circulation: An Empirical Study of the Tourist Service Class as Cultural Intermediaries in the Pearl River Delta,” RGC CERG (HKD586,336)
2004, Erni, John, Principal Investigator, “SARS, Civil Society and the Media: Toward a New Public Culture?,” FHS Research Grant, CityU (HKD62,100)
2003-2005, Erni, John, Principal Investigator, “Transnational Text, Local Reading: A Reception Study of Harry Potter and the Formation of Middle-class Culture in Urban China,” RGC CERG (HKD566,600)
2003, Erni, John, Principal Investigator, “Constructing ‘Managerial Masculinity’ in Hong Kong’s Corporate Culture: Views of Junior Male Employees,” Small-Scale Research Grant, CityU (HKD51,660)
1999-2001, Erni, John, Co-Investigator, “Popular Culture Consumption and Youth Identities in Hong Kong: Trajectories and Transitions,” RGC CERG (HKD452,000)