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Medical Humanities · Performance Studies · Sinophone Shakespeare

Brittany Bin TANG?

Her Chinese name is Bin TANG, as cited in academic publications (family name TANG, given name Bin). She also goes by Brittany Tang in social and professional contexts.

Brittany Bin Tang is a medical humanities researcher drawing on performance studies and narrative phenomenology to examine how surgical, material, and algorithmic technologies mediate patients' agency within healthcare. Her research investigates patients whose bodies fall outside clinical and algorithmic standards, and the epistemic and narrative vulnerabilities that illegibility exacts from them. She prioritises direct collaboration with medical practitioners to ground humanistic inquiries in clinical realities.

Open to Opportunities Brittany is currently on the academic job market, she welcomes opportunities regarding research positions in medical humanities, health AI, and related fields.
Seeking Clinical Collaboration Brittany is seeking clinical collaborators for Scaffolding the Self — a study of materiality, liminality, and the performance of normalcy in craniomaxillofacial reconstruction. Any interest enquiries from clinicians and researchers are welcome.

Email address: tangb1037@gmail.com

PhD, English Literary Studies

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Languages:  Mandarin (native)  ·  English (fluent)  ·  Classical Chinese (research)  ·  Cantonese (conversational)

Research Programme Work in progress

Research Network

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Scholarly Work

Publications

Medical Humanities & Health AI — Peer-reviewed Articles & Manuscripts

  • Under
    Review

    "Healing as Exit: A Patient-Doctor Collaborative Autoethnography of Clinical Trust and Algorithmic Gaze"

    Tang Bin, Lee Hanyu, Ma Gang (MD, PhD, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital)

    Medical Humanities (BMJ) · Under Review

    Peer-reviewed Collaborative Autoethnography Health AI
  • In Prep.

    "The Narrative-Epistemic Lure: A Phenomenological and Performative Critique of Patients' Use of Health AI"

    Tang Bin

    Manuscript in preparation

    Examines the tension between generative LLMs' unlimited performativity and the absence of clinical theatricality in AI outputs, and the cognitive arc — from comfort through immersion to disillusionment — this produces in patients. Argues for epistemically humble health AI design.

  • In Prep.

    "Scaffolding the Self: Materiality, Hyper-visible Liminality and the Choreography of Normalcy in Craniomaxillofacial Reconstruction"

    Tang Bin

    Manuscript in preparation · Seeking clinical collaboration

    Theorises surgical intervention and the technological scaffolding of visual normalcy in craniomaxillofacial reconstruction.

Theatre, Performance & Shakespeare Studies — Peer-reviewed Articles

This body of doctoral work provides the theoretical foundation in performance studies and intercultural analysis that informs the current medical humanities programme.

  • 2026
  • 2026
    Forthcoming

    "A Brief History of Playing Shakespeare in Hong Kong"

    Tang Bin

    Chinese Shakespeare Study · Forthcoming 2026

    Peer-reviewed
  • Under
    Review

    "Reimagining Xiqu in Contemporary Theatre: Fictionality, Universalism, and Consumerism in Tang Shu-wing's Macbeth"

    Tang Bin

    Asian Theatre Journal · Resubmitted, under review

    Peer-reviewed

Book Chapters

  • 2026
    Forthcoming

    "'Where is she now?' — Exploring Feminist Representations of Lady Macbeth in Sinophone Macbeth Appropriations"

    Mike Ingham and Brittany

    In Global Macbeth: Translation, Performance, and Appropriation, ed. William Reginald Rampone Jr. and Sandra Clark. Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2026.

Invited Talks & Conference Papers

Talks

Medical Humanities & Health AI

  • 2026

    Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong

    Forthcoming, Autumn 2026

    Invited Talk

Theatre, Performance & Shakespeare Studies

  • 2026

    "The Pygmalion Imperative: Fabricating the Perfect Body in The Winter's Tale and Modern Surgical Fantasies"

    World Shakespeare Congress

    Verona, Italy · Forthcoming 2026

    Conference Paper
  • 2024

    "Anti-representation, Anti-consumerism, and Theatre Identity: Tang Shu-wing and his Macbeth (2015)"

    Shakespeare Association of America Annual Conference

    Portland, USA · April 2024

    Conference Paper
  • 2024

    "Shakespeare, Xiqu, and Modernity: A Case Study of Yueju and Huiju Adaptations of Macbeth"

    International Conference on Shakespeare, Medieval and Renaissance Literature Studies

    Hangzhou, China · September 2024

    Conference Paper
  • 2023

    "De-hierarchizing Shakespeare and Authorities Alike: A Taiwanese Fringe Adaptation of Macbeth"

    European Shakespeare Research Association Conference

    Budapest, Hungary · July 2023

    Conference Paper

Teaching

Teaching Assistant & Research Assistant

Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2020–2024

Supported undergraduate students across literary studies, cultural theory, and performance studies. Responsibilities included course design, tutorial teaching, seminar facilitation, grading, and individual student mentorship.

Shakespeare Literature & Art Literature & Film Cultural Theory

Recognition

Awards

Vice-Chancellor Scholarship

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

National Scholarship

Ministry of Education, P.R.C.

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