| Name | Rank | Research Area | Contact Info. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acting Chair | |||
| David HUDDART | Professor | Postcolonial literature, autobiography, literary and cultural theory, popular culture |
3943 7993 |
| Full Time Teaching Staff | |||
| Evelyn CHAN (on sabbatical leave) |
Associate Professor | Virginia Woolf; Joseph Conrad; modernism; literature and the professions; literature and education | 3943 7017 |
| Ron DARVIN | Assistant Professor | Digital literacies, digital repertoires, online genres, second language acquisition (SLA), translanguaging, unequal Englishes, identity, investment, social class, critical literacy. | 3943 7020 |
| Grant HAMILTON | Associate Professor | Twentieth-century world literature, postcolonial literatures, African literatures in English, literary theory, computational literary studies | 3943 7445 |
| Jette HANSEN EDWARDS (on sabbatical leave) |
Professor | Second language phonology, World Englishes (Asian Englishes), impact of mass media on English language learning and use, language variation, peer response in second language writing.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5DpJY1IAAAAJ&hl=en ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/ Jette_Hansen_Edwards Academia.edu: https://cuhk.academia.edu/ JetteHansenEdwards |
3943 7023 |
| Jookyoung JUNG | Assistant Professor | Second language acquisition (SLA), task-based language teaching (TBLT), second language reading and writing, eye-tracking technology | 3943 5719 |
| Julian LAMB | Associate Professor | Early modern pedagogy (Erasmus, Ascham, Puttenham, Mulcaster), early modern language theory, Shakespeare (especially sonnets), poetics, Wittgenstein, J.L. Austin. | 3943 7018 |
| Carmen LEE | Associate Professor | Sociolinguistics, language on the internet, multilingualism, literacy studies, qualitative research methods | 3943 7994 |
| LI Ou | Associate Professor | Romanticism, especially poetry; poetics and poetic tradition; cultural/literary relations between China and the West | 3943 7003 |
| Rowan MACKAY | Assistant Professor | The crossroads of political language, social semiotics, and identity politics; the politics of Scotland, gender debates. | 3943 7190 |
| Michael O’SULLIVAN | Professor | Modernism, phenomenology & literature, literature & religion, Irish studies, the philosophy of education. | 3943 7024 |
| Prem PHYAK | Assistant Professor | Language ideology, language policy, sociolinguistics of multilingualism, multiliteracy, multilingual education, translanguaging, politics of English, English as medium of instruction (EMI), spatiality of language, second language acquisition (identity/affect/motivation), indigenous/minority language education, language and wellbeing, qualitative research, teacher education (agency and identity) | 3943 7174 |
| Eli Park SORENSEN | Assistant Professor | Postcolonialism, comparative literature, cultural studies, twentieth-century fiction, philosophy and literature, literary theory | 3943 8550 |
| Eddie TAY | Associate Professor | Creative writing; autoethnography; street photography; Singaporean and Malaysian literature; postcolonial literature | 3943 7061 |
| Suzanne WONG | Senior Lecturer | Grammatical voice, pedagogical grammar, contrastive linguistics, short stories, creative writing | 3943 7011 |
| Adjunct Professors | |||
| Vijay K. BHATIA | Adjunct Professor | Critical genre analysis of academic and professional discourses in legal, business, promotional, and in new media contexts; ESP and professional communication; simplification and easification of legal and other public documents. | |
| Yuet May CHING | Adjunct Associate Professor | Modernist poetry and fiction, Romantic poetry, gender and literature, and Hong Kong literature | |
| Jason GLECKMAN | Adjunct Associate Professor | Shakespeare, 16th-, 17th-, and 18th-century literature, English composition. | |
| Tony T.N. HUNG | Adjunct Professor | World Englishes, phonology, syntax-phonology interaction, interlanguage analysis, second language teaching. | |
| Emeritus Professors | |||
| Jane JACKSON | Emeritus Professor | Language and intercultural communication; internationalization and education abroad; language, culture and identity; intercultural/cross-cultural pragmatics; language policies; ethnography; qualitative & mixed-method research; reticence and anxiety; cultures of learning; case-based teaching and learning; English for specific/business purposes | |
| Gerald NELSON | Emeritus Professor | English grammar; corpus linguistics; World Englishes; the history of English; the history of linguistics | |
| Impact Postdoctoral Fellows | |||
| Carolyn LAU | Postdoctoral Fellow | Medical humanities, posthumanism, science fiction literature and film, twentieth and twenty-first century British and American literature and art, especially postwar experimental writing | |
| Victor ZHANG | Postdoctoral Fellow | Second language writing, writing assessment, digital literacy, computer-assisted language learning, second language acquisition, multilingualism, sociolinguistics, translation studies, etc. | |