Congratulations to Professor Marco Wan, who has been elected as a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities. The Academy honors the most distinguished scholars and practitioners of the humanities in Hong Kong, nurtures promising early-to-mid-career academics, and plays a major role in advancing the humanities. Professor Wan is the first legal scholar to be elected to the Academy.
Professor Wan’s research focuses on the intersections between law and the humanities — especially literature, film, and the visual arts — as well as constitutional law and legal theory. He is the author of Film and Constitutional Controversy (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Masculinity and the Trials of Modern Fiction (Routledge, 2017; winner of the biennial Penny Pether Prize from the Law, Literature, and Humanities Association of Australasia). His recent work explores how the arts engage with ideas about rights and justice in a global context; a special issue on world literature and law, which he is co-editing with Professor Peter Goodrich, is forthcoming in Law & Literature later this year.
The list of Fellows of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities is available here.