ESTHER YAU (PhD) teaches cinema studies in the Department of Comparative Literature. Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong in 2008, she taught Senior Thesis Filmmaking, Introductory Super-8 Filmmaking, Aesthetics of Cinema, and Film Seminar, among other cinema courses at Occidental College, USA from 1990-2007. She was Chancellor’s Visiting Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine (1997) and Visiting Associate Professor at University of Southern California and University of California, Los Angeles (1998). Her recent books include Hong Kong Neo-Noir (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015).