Douglas Kerr is Professor in the School of English at The University of Hong Kong, and Chairman of the Arts Faculty Board. He studied at the universities of Cambridge and Warwick, came to Hong Kong in 1979, and has been teaching literary studies here ever since. His scholarly work as a literary historian has been in the areas of modern, modernist, and late-Victorian writing, and he is the author of books on the poet Wilfred Owen, the novelist and political writer George Orwell, and of Eastern Figures: Orient and Empire in British Writing. He chairs the committee that oversees the Hong Kong University Press, and is currently Chairman of the Board of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival.