Sing Cheung

Dr Sing Cheung graduated with a first-class honours degree in English language education at The Education University of Hong Kong. He then obtained his Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy degrees, both in children’s literature, at the University of Cambridge. His doctoral work focused on how contemporary children’s fantasy represents twenty-first century girlhood.

Dr Cheung has taught English literature, gender studies, and academic English at several tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. He joined PolyU HKCC in 2023 and served as a Visiting Lecturer in academic English. He lectured at the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong, where he was responsible for teaching Romantic literature, Victorian literature, modernist literature, and postmodernist literature. He also delivered a course in University English at the Centre for English and Additional Languages at Lingnan University. Currently, at PolyU SPEED, he lectures in contemporary fiction and gender studies. He also supervises master's theses for the Department of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

His research interests are in the intersections of children's and young adult literature, animation, gender studies, posthumanism, and pedagogy. His research has been published in Journal of Literary Education, Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, a Routledge edited volume, Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, and Children's Literature in Education. He has reviewed manuscripts for Children's Literature in Education.