- Co-opted Member of M+ Acquisitions Committee
Professor Eva MAN Kit-wah is Chair Professor of Humanities in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Metropolitan University and Professor Emeritus at the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). She was Chair Professor in Humanities and Director of Academy of Film at HKBU. She was granted an endowed professor at the University of San Francisco’s Center for Asia and Pacific Studies in 2022.
Professor Man got her PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her academic research areas include Comparative Aesthetics, Neo-Confucian Philosophy, Feminist Aesthetics and Philosophy, Gender Studies, and Cultural Studies. She has published numerous refereed journal articles, creative prose writings and academic books in Philosophy and Aesthetics. She is also writing columns for Ming Pao on philosophy and art. She hosts cultural programmes for Radio Television Hong Kong.
In 2004, Professor Man acted as a Fulbright Scholar at UC Berkeley, U.S. She was appointed as the Association of Marquette University Women (AMUW) woman chair of Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2009-2010. She is an active member of the American Society for Aesthetics, International Association of Aesthetics, and the Chinese Association of Aesthetics. She is also Advisor for the Hong Kong Arts Development Council’s Arts Criticism Group, Museum Expert Adviser for the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Expert Adviser of the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme under Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau, and a member of the Board of Tai Kwun Culture and Arts Company Limited.
