Miriam Leung-che Lau, PhD 

Lecturer I, Hong Kong Baptist University 

ORCID iD:        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3314-6976 

Profile 

A.             EDUCATION

| Degree (include field of study) | Institution name  | Dates attended | PhD, Shakespeare Institute, School of English  | University of Birmingham Supervisors: Prof. Michael Dobson, Dr. Abigail Rokison-Woodall | 05/2012 - 07/2018
| Master of Philosophy, School of English  | University of Hong Kong Supervisor: Dr. Page Richards | 09/2007 - 06/2009
| Bachelor of Arts, First Class Honours (double majored in English & Comparative Literature)  | University of Hong Kong Supervisor (special honours programme): Dr. Otto Heim | 09/2002 - 06/2005


B.             AWARDS

| Name of awards | Institution name & Location | Year | Fellow | Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, U.K.  | 2026
| Lively Teaching Award   | Hong Kong Polytechnic University   | 2012
| Caring Teaching Award     | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 2010                           
| Worldwide Undergraduate Exchange Scholarship   | University of Hong Kong   | 2005   
| Ellis Bell Prize in English & Comparative Literature    | University of Hong Kong   | 2004
| Dean’s Honours List | University of Hong Kong   | 2004
| Admitted into the Special Honours Programme   | School of English, University of Hong Kong   | 2004


C.             CURRENT LEADERSHIP ROLES

| Position | Name of Committee/Association & Location | Dates | Chairperson  | Grants Vetting Sub-committee Hong Kong Baptist University   | 2024-Present 
| Special Educational Needs (SENCO) Coordinator | Hong Kong Baptist University   | 2024-2025 
| Academic Coordinator   | Hong Kong Baptist University   | 2024-Present 
| Trustee | Foreign Theatre Association, School of Foreign Languages & Cultures, Nanjing Normal University   | 2024-Present 
| Committee Member | International Program Committee, Hong Kong Association for Educational Communications & Technology (HKAECT) | 2024-Present 
| Member | International Shakespeare Conference (ISC), University of Birmingham   | 2020-Present


D.             ACADEMIC POSITIONS

| Position | Institution name & Location | Dates | Lecturer I | Hong Kong Baptist University | 2023 – Present
| Assistant Professor | Yew Chung College of Early Childhood Education   | 2022 ‒ 2023
| Lecturer II | Hong Kong Polytechnic University   | 2012 ‒ 2022
| Assistant Lecturer | Hong Kong Polytechnic University   | 2010 ‒ 2012


E.             RESEARCH: Current Research Funding

  | Award Source: | University Grants Council (UGC)
 | Project title: | Transplantation of Shakespearean Drama into Asian Culture(Reference no.:UGC/IIDS23/H01/25) https://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/funding_opport/iids/funded_research/iids2526.html
| Total funding amount: | HKD $447,625
| Duration of support: | 1 year (11/2025-10/2026)
| Your role: | Principal investigator
| Major goals of this project: | To reposition Hong Kong as a centre for Shakespearean studies in Asia, and to connect research and performance studies on Asian perspectives about Shakespeare and adaptations of his work into Asian theatre forms.
 
  | Award Source: | University Grants Council (UGC)
 | Project title: | Diverse and Multicultural Shakespeare: Children’s and Young Adult Book Adaptations and Retellings in the 21st Century (Reference no.: UGC/FDS14/H13/25) https://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/funding_opport/fds/funded%20research/fds2526.html
| Total funding amount: | HKD $412,720
| Duration of support: | 1.5 years (9/2025-6/2027)
| Name of Principal Investigator: | Dr. Anna Tso
| Your role: | Co-investigator
| Major goals of this project: | To examine a diverse range of children’s adaptations of Shakespeare published from 2000 to 2025, and analyse how these texts reinterprettraditional characters through various cultural, racial, and social lenses.


Past Research Funding

  | Award Source: | University Grants Council (UGC)
 | Project title: | Hans Christian Andersen and Worlding in HisTales (Reference no.: UGC/IIDS14/H03/24) https://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/funding_opport/iids/funded_research/iids2425.html
| Total funding amount: | HKD $ 222,050
| Duration of support: | 1 year (01/2025-12/2025)
| Name of Principal Investigator: | Prof Tam Kwok-kan
| Your role: | Co-investigator
| Major goals of this project: | To bring international scholars and Hong Kong government officials together in a dialogue on Andersen’s contribution to world culture.   
 
  | Award Source: | Seed Grant, Hong Kong Baptist University
| Project title: | Teaching modern theatre to enhance the English proficiency for college students in Hong Kong: a Case Study of CIE
 | Total funding amount: | HKD $ 110,500
| Duration of support: | 1 year (01/2024-12/2024)
| Name of Principal Investigator: | Dr. Miriam Lau
| Your role: | Principal investigator
| Major goals of this project: | To investigate whether teaching English modern theatre to students in Hong Kong can be an effective tool in ESL classrooms to enhance students’ self-confidence, English speaking and writing skills.     
 
  | Award Source: | Research Fund, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
| Project title: | Drama Education: Experiencing Shakespeare in Hong Kong Schools
| Total funding amount: | HKD $ 15,000
| Duration of support: | 3 years (12/2012-07/2015)
| Name of Principal Investigator: | Dr. Miriam Lau
| Your role: | Principal investigator
| Major goals of this project: | To examine how Hong Kong associate degree students’ English proficiency benefit from participating in non-credit bearing drama workshops outside of their English curriculum.


F.             RESEARCH: Ongoing projects

1) Invited by Kyoto Sangyo University and Toyo University in Japan for a short-term fellowship scheme in the summer of 2026, and to give lectures and hold research meetings on cross-cultural theatre.

2) Principal investigator of “Hong Kong’s Hakka Schools in Disappearance”, a digitized project of the preservation of village schools in Hong Kong.


G.             PUBLICATIONS

Books as author

1) Lau, L.C.M (2026). The Making of Post-1997 Shakespeare: Hong Kong Adaptations and Appropriations, Palgrave Macmillan, London.

2) Lau, L.C.M (2017) and Tso, Anna. Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students: The Study of Language Arts in Four Major Plays, 1st Ed., Springer, Singapore, 149pp.

Book as editor and author of 1 chapter

1)    Lau, L.C.M and Tso, Anna (Eds.). (2026, accepted by Routledge). ReinventingShakespeare: Translation, Adaptation, and Afterlives, vol. 1.

2)    Lau, L.C.M and Tso, Anna (Eds.). (2026, accepted by Routledge). Shakespeare Transmedia: Translation, Adaptation, and Afterlives, vol. 2.


Chapters

1) Lau, L.C.M (2026, in press). “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, In Sit, H. H. W., Chan, A., Tso, W. B., & Chan, W. W. L. (Eds.), Springer.

2) Lau, L.C.M(2025)。《安徒生在香港：學校和劇場內外》。載於曹穎寶（主編），《安徒生的童話世界》。香港：香港中華書局。

3) Lau, L.C.M (2025). “Tang Shu-wing’s King Lear”, Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare, In Joubin, A. A. (Eds.), Palgrave. 

4) 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.


Peer-reviewed journal articles

1) Lau, L.C.M (2022). Adapting Shakespeare in Hong Kong: Tang Shu-wing’s Macbeth in 2016 and 2019. Shakespeare Jahrbuch (158), German Shakespeare Society, 136-154.

2) Lau, L.C.M (2020). Caesar & Lear in Hong Kong: Appropriating Shakespeare to Express the Inexpressible. Shakespeare Survey (73), Cambridge University Press, 93-106.

3) Lau, L.C.M (2020). Adapting Hamlet in Colonial Hong Kong: Richard Ho’s Hamlet: Sword of Vengeance. Shakespeare Jahrbuch (156), German Shakespeare Society, 72-88.

4) 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.

5) 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).

6) Lau, L.C.M (2016). “The Adaptation and Appropriation of Japanese Kimono in Hong Kong Society”, SPEED Working Paper Series, 4 (9), 1-23.

7) Lau, L.C.M (2016). “When to Laugh? When Not to Laugh? That’s the Question”, Ming Pao Monthly, 5 (5), 10-15.

8) Lau, L.C.M (2015). “Effects of Chinese opera on the reproductions of Henrik Ibsen's plays”, Nordlit (34), 315-32.
 
9) 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.


H)    INVITED AND/OR PEER-SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

  | Title | Institution/Location | Year
| Plenary speaker - Inclusiveness of Shakespeare4All: Promotion of English Language Proficiency among Hong Kong Students through Theatre Performances | Hong Kong Association for Educational Communications and Technology (HKAECT) International Conference | 2025
| A comparison of Hans Christian Andersen’s stories in the children’s books of mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan | Creative Humanities Festival, Hang Seng University, Hong Kong | 2025
| Japanese Noh adaptations of Henrik Ibsen’s plays    | 1st Foreign Theatre Association Conference, School of Foreign Languages, Nanjing Normal University, China | 2024
| Cantonese opera adaptation of Hamlet (2018): a Hong Kong Exemplar | International Conference on Shakespeare, Medieval and Renaissance Literature Studies, School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, China   | 2024
| From King Lear to Queen Lear: Unravelling an all-female cast in Tang Shu-wing’s physical theatre | International Shakespeare Conference, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, U.K.  | 2024
| Organized a panel on “Political Shakespeares in East Asian education: Performance, Storytelling and Teaching with young people in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan”  | 4th Biennial Conference of Asian Shakespeare Association, Sejong University, Korea | 2020
| Inclusiveness of Shakespeare4all: how the Hong Kong charity promotes the development of children through Shakespeare
| Hong Kong Shakespeare & Drama Education | Department of English, Hang Seng University, Hong Kong | 2020
| How to publish an academic book | College of Professional & Continuing Education, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong | 2017
| Drama, Shakespeare and Love | English Society, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong | 2014
| The History and Development of Theatre | Big Ideas Programme, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), Hong Kong | 2012


I)      COMMUNITY SERVICE

-        Adjudicator, Shakespeare Drama Competition, Department of English, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Mar 2026

-        Invited focus group member by Cambridge University Press about the commissioning of a new series of Shakespeare editions, Cambridge Shakespeare Editions

-        Technical producer, “CIBS Programme: The Fairytale World of Hans Christian Andersen". RTHK radio progamme. Jan to Mar 2025.

-        Translator, Script of “Welcoming the colorful phoenix afterreturning victorious from a hundred battles – First encounter in the splendid hall” (百戰榮歸迎彩鳳之華堂初見), The CantoneseOperaAdvancement Association, 2025.