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Dr. Miriam L.C. Lau 劉亮之博士
Academic Co-ordinator and Lecturer, Generic Content - Core Language Courses (English Language) - English Academic Writing II, Division of Arts and Languages
Teaching Areas
Course(s) taught:- CCLC1201 English Academic Writing I
- CCLC1202 English Academic Writing II
- ELSS2215 Exploring English Cinema
Research Interests
- Drama
- Shakespeare Studies
- Second language acquisition
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Selected Publications
- Lau, L.C.M, & TSO, W.B.A (2026). Reinventing Shakespeare - Translation, Adaptation and Afterlives, Routledge.
- Lau, L.C.M (2026). The Making of Hong Kong Shakespeare: Post-1997 Adaptations and Appropriations, Palgrave Macmillan, London.
- Lau, L.C.M (2025). Treading the footsteps of my beloved grandparents in their paths of cultivating education in the New Territories of Hong Kong. The Punctum (3).
- Lau, L.C.M (2025). “Inclusiveness of Shakespeare4all: Promotion of English Language Proficiency among Hong Kong Students through Theatre Performances”, The Vistas of Inclusive Innovations in Educational Communications and Technology: Opportunities and Challenges, Springer.
- Lau, L.C.M (2024). “Tang Shu-wing's King Lear”, Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare, Springer.
- Lau, L.C.M (2024). “From King Lear to Queen Lear: unravelling an all-female cast in Tang Shu-wing’s physical theatre.” International Shakespeare Conference. Hosted by Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, organised by University of Birmingham. July 24 - July 26, 2024. (Conference proceeding). By invitation only.
- Lau, L.C.M (2024). “Doubleness of Gender and Theatre Forms in Mitsuya Mori’s Double Nora (2005): A Japanese Noh Adaptation.” VXth International Conference. Hosted by Nanjing University, co-organised by Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo and Nanjing University. June 24 - June 26, 2024. (Conference proceeding).
- Lau, L.C.M (2022). Adapting Shakespeare in Hong Kong: Tang Shu-wing’s Macbeth in 2016 and 2019. Shakespeare Jahrbuch (158), 136-154.
- Lau, L.C.M (2020). Caesar & Lear in Hong Kong: Appropriating Shakespeare to Express the Inexpressible. Shakespeare Survey (73), 93-106.
- Lau, L.C.M (2020). Adapting Hamlet in Colonial Hong Kong: Richard Ho’s Hamlet: Sword of Vengeance. Shakespeare Jahrbuch (156), 72-88.
- Lau, L.C.M (2020). Rev. of Adele Lee, The English Renaissance and the Far East, 2018, in Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 20 (1), 119-122.
- Lau, L.C.M (2018). “Zhuqing de Zhongxi Hebi”《鑄情》的中西合璧 [The East-West integration of Romeo & Juliet Peony], “Yiping Bizhen” 藝評筆陣 [Art Criticism], International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong).
- Lau, L.C.M (2017). Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students: The Study of Language Arts in Four Major Plays, 1st Ed., Springer, Singapore, 149pp.
- Lau, L.C.M (2016). “When to Laugh? When Not to Laugh? That’s the Question”, Ming Pao Monthly, 5 (5), 10-15.
- Lau, L.C.M (2015). “Effects of Chinese opera on the reproductions of Henrik Ibsen's plays”, Nordlit (34), 315-32.
- Lau, L.C.M (2014). “A Fusion of Small and Big Times: Chinese Shakespeares in the Universities Shakespeare Festival”, Shakespeare Review, 50 (5), 881-894.
- Lau, L.C.M (2012). “Beyond the Tarantella: Re-visualizing Pain/Pleasure in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House”, Ibsen Across Cultures, Fudan University Press, pp. 233-245.
Professional / Community Services
- July 2026 – June 2029: Hong Kong Arts Development Council – Reviewer for the Drama and Arts Criticism sectors
- 2024 – Present: Trustee, Foreign Theatre Association, China
- 2024 – Present: Committee Member, Hong Kong Association for Educational Communications & Technology
- 2020 – Present: Member, International Shakespeare Conference, University of Birmingham
Grants
- Principal investigator, “Transplantation of Shakespearean Drama into Asian Culture”, UGC/IIDS23/H01/25, Nov 2025-Oct 2026 (Amount: HKD $447,625)
- Co-investigator, “Diverse and Multicultural Shakespeare: Children’s and Young Adult Book Adaptations and Retellings in the 21st Century”, UGC/FDS14/H13/25, Sep 2025-June 2027 (Amount: HKD $412,720)
- Co-investigator, “Hans Christian Andersen and Worlding in His Tales”, UGC/IIDS14/H03/24), Jan 2025 – Dec 2026 (Amount: HKD $222,050)
- Principal investigator, “Teaching modern theatre to enhance English proficiency for college students in Hong Kong: A case study of CIE”, SCE Seed Grant Funding Scheme, Jan 2024 – Jan 2025.
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