Otto Heim

Originally from Switzerland, Otto Heim has been teaching in the School of English at HKU since 2001. His research interests focus on writing from the Pacific, or Oceania, specifically poetry and performance, and on small island cultures more generally. He has served on the editorial boards of the Island Studies Journal and Shima has organized several island-themed conferences at HKU, including the second Island Cities and Urban Archipelagos conference in 2016, and the symposium The Space Between: Creativity, Performance and Impact in Contemporary Island Societies in 2018.