Faye Dorcas Yung

E-mail Address

fdy20@cam.ac.uk

Qualifications

MPhil Education, University of Cambridge, UK

BEd (English), University of Hong Kong

Supervisor

Prof. Maria Nikolajeva

Profile

Faye Dorcas Yung began her academic pursuit in children’s literature from her MPhil at the University of Cambridge. She is primarily interested in literary criticism and the cultural aspects of children’s fiction and picturebook. For her PhD, she is exploring issues of cultural authenticity in the representations of Chinese and Japanese cultures in children’s fiction and picturebook published in Anglophone countries.

Prior to her studies at Cambridge, she was trained and served as an ESL teacher at secondary school and college level in Hong Kong. Her interest in children’s literature is rooted in her teaching practice, in which she is committed to motivate students’ learning by engaging them in quality literature.

Research topics

Chinese and Japanese culture in children’s literature
Cultural authenticity in children’s literature
Multiculturalism and Multicultural children’s literature