American, Canadian, Irish, and English fiction; South-Asian anglophone fiction; experimental criticism; nonfiction comics.

Jason S Polley is associate professor of English at Hong Kong Baptist University. His research interests include South-Asian anglophone fiction, Canadian fiction, American fiction, Irish fiction, critical pedagogy, and Hong Kong Studies. He has articles on John Banville, District 9, Jane Smiley, Watchmen, Wong Kar-wai, House of Leaves, Bombay Fever, Joel Thomas Hynes, R. Crumb, David Foster Wallace, Romesh Gunesekera, and Hong Kong prostitition. He’s co-editor of the volumes Everyday Evil in Stephen King's America (2024), Poetry in Pedagogy (2021), and Cultural Conflict in Hong Kong (2018). His monograph is Jane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, Don DeLillo: Narratives of Everyday Justice (2011). He has two creative nonfiction books: Cemetery Miss You (2011) and Refrain (2010). He sporadically contributes book reviews to Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. He's most recent encyclopedia entries are separately on: Jane Smiley; Vikram Seth; An Equal Music; The Golden Gate; Sidin Vadukut; The Sword and the Sickle; and, The Atlas of Lost Beliefs.