Dr CLAPP, Jeffrey Michael

Associate Professor

2948 7835
B3-2/F-17
jmclapp@eduhk.hk

Scholarly Books, Monographs and Chapters

Clapp, J. (2019). "The Unique Identity Project: Surveillance Society and Democratic Culture in Aravind Adiga's India". Wasihun, B., Narrating Surveillance--Überwachen erzählen (143-168). Würzberg, Germany: Ergon Press. More Details
Clapp, J. (2018). "Hong Kong's Edward Snowden / Edward Snowden's Hong Kong". In Polley, Poon, and Wee (eds)., Cultural Conflict in Hong Kong: Angles on a Coherent Imaginary (131-148). London: Palgrave.
Clapp, J. (2017). "Surveilling Citizens: Claudia Rankine, From the First to the Second Person". In Mackay, A & Flynn, S, Spaces of Surveillance: States and Selves (169-184). London: Palgrave MacMillian. More Details
Clapp, J. (2016). "Safe from His Readers: Interpretation as Inhospitality in Cold War America". Clapp, J. and Ridge, E., eds., Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture (175-189). New York: Routledge. More Details
Clapp, J., & Ridge, E. (2016). Introduction: Risking Hospitality. in J. Clapp, & E. Ridge (Eds.), Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture: Modern and Contemporary Perspectives (1-16). New York: Routledge.
Clapp, J., & Ridge, E. (Eds.). (2016). Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture: Modern and Contemporary Perspectives. New York: Routledge.

Journal Publications

Clapp, J., & Chen, Y. (2024). The Value Theory of Labor: Xi Xi, Teddy Bears, and World Literature. Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal, 55(4), 0-0.
Clapp, J. (2021). Jeff VanderMeer, or the Novel Trapped in the Open World. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 62(4), 414-427. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2020.1816890
Clapp, J., DeCoursey, M., Lee, S. W. S., & Li, K. (2020). “Something fruitful for all of us”: Social annotation as a signature pedagogy for literature education. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 0, 0-0.
Clapp, J. (2020). "Undisguised Alter Ego: Mary McCarthy's Autofictional Career". Life Writing, 17(1), 27-43. More Details
Clapp, J. (2019). "The 'Along Comes' Device: Surveillance Capitalism and the Space of Appearance in Lyn Hejinian's Twenty-First Century Writing". College Literature, 46(3), 712-740. More Details
Clapp, J. (2018). "Robert Lowell, Richard Nixon, and Surveillance Culture". Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 60 (1), 1-31. More Details
Clapp, J. (2015). "Nicotine Cosmopolitanism: From Italo Svevo's Trieste to Art Spiegelman's New York". Partial Answers, 13 (2), 311-336. More Details
Clapp, J. (2013). "From Signing to Strangling: Arthur Miller and the National Security State". Textual Practice, 28 (3), 365-384. More Details
Clapp, J. (2011). "Richard Wright and the Police". Post45, ., 1-21. More Details

Conference Papers

Clapp, J. (2020, May). Surveillance in Contemporary American Autofiction. Departmental Seminar of the English Department of City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Clapp, J. (2019, June). We are Data!: Twee Surveillance in Miranda July and Sheila Heti. Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong.
Clapp, J. (2019, May). The Strength of Weak Ties: One City One Book Hong Kong as Neighborhood. Hong Kong Studies Symposium, Hong Kong.
Clapp, J. (2019, April). Surveillance, Democracy, and American Autofiction. Keynote at 1st Annual Heterotopic Junctions Postgraduate Conference, Hong Kong.
Clapp, J. (2018, October). Inverting Infrastructure in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy. Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, New Orleans.
Clapp, J. (2018, June). Reading Claudia Rankine Empathetically. Modernism and Empathy, Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Clapp, J. (2018, January). Data Exhaust: Tao Lin’s Quotation Marks and Surveillance Capitalism. Modern Language Association Convention, New York.
Clapp, J. (2017, June). Memoir against Metafiction: David Foster Wallace and the Internal Revenue Service. The American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Utrecht.
Clapp, J. (2016, December). Post-Paranoid David Foster Wallace. Surveillance, Form, Affect. Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Clapp, J. (2016, May). Non-Obvious Relationship Awareness: Surveillance, Algorithms, and the Forms of Contemporary American Fiction. Literary Form and Reform, Fudan University, Shanghai.
Clapp, J. (2016, April). Surveillance and Transparency in Claudia Rankine’s American Lyric. The Joint Conference of the Irish and British Associations for American Studies, Queen's University, Belfast.
Clapp, J. (2016, March). Surveilling Citizens: Claudia Rankine, from the First to the Second Person. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Boston.
Clapp, J. (2015, June). Monuments to Information: Kenneth Goldsmith and Maya Lin. Between Monumentalism and Miniaturization: Thinking Big and Small in Contemporary Culture. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Clapp, J. (2015, May). Hospitality, Hong Kong, and the Culture of Total Information Awareness. Paper presented at Departmental Seminar, Hong Kong.
Clapp, J. (2015, April). Technooriental Hong Kong, from William Gibson to Edward Snowden. International Conference on the History of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Clapp, J. (2015, March). “Hospitality and Dataveillance”. American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Seattle.
Clapp, J. (2014, October). Surveillance and Privacy in U.S. Law and Literature. Law and Literature Colloquium of the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Clapp, J. (2014, January). Smoking on the Streets of New York: Art Spiegelman as ‘Rooted Cosmopolitan’ in the Shadow of September 11. Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago.
Clapp, Jeffrey (2013, October). "Rooted Cosmopolitan: Art Spiegelman in New York, circa 9/11/01". Chinese University of Hong Kong English Department, Hong Kong.
Clapp, Jeffrey (2013, October). "Rooted Cosmopolitan: Art Spiegelman in New York, circa 9/11/01". Chinese University of Hong Kong English Department, Hong Kong.
Clapp, Jeffrey (2013, January). “U.S. Sovereignty and International Law in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian and The Border Trilogy”. American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Toronto.
Clapp, Jeffrey (2012, May). “Art, the State, and Ectoplasm: Arthur Miller’s The Archbishop’s Ceiling”. American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco.
Clapp, Jeffrey (2011, January). “Author or Authoritarian? Nabokov’s Realities and Cold War Confessional Discourse”. Modern Language Association Conference, Los Angeles.

Creative and Literary Works, Consulting Reports and Case Studies

Au Chung-to, Jeffrey Michael Clapp, Loi Ho Man (2014). In Other Words : poetry in translation from HKIEd. Hong Kong: HKIED.