All Departments
Researchers
Alastair MCCLURE
Histories of the British Empire, Legal History, Modern South Asia, Global Intellectual History, Crime and State Violence
Alice Wong
Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Data Science, Sense of Agency, Philosophy of AI, AI safety
Amit Chaturvedi
Perceptual concepts, content and consciousness, Indian and Buddhist Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
Boris Babic
Law and Ethics of AI, Bayesian Statistics, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Legal Philosophy
Brian Wong
Political Philosophy (Authoritarianism, Colonialism, Justice), Applied Ethics (Climate Change, Geopolitics), Social Epistemology, Intersection of geopolitics, political/moral philosophy and technology
Chad Hansen
Chinese Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, Daoism, Chinese Theory of Language, Chinese Theory of Mind, Meta-ethics, Philosophy of Law
CHAN Hing-yan
Chinese-Western composition, chamber opera, Hong Kong Arts Festival commissions
Charles SCHENCKING
Modern Japanese history, History of natural disasters in Japan, Second World War in Asia and the Pacific
Cheng Wai Ching
Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, Iris Murdoch, Philosophy of Language, Ethics
Chin-lung Yang
Cognitive & neurocognitive basis of text comprehension, bilingual processing, language learning, psycholinguistics
Chris Fraser
Chinese Philosophy of Language and Logic, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Action Theory, Ethics, Metaethics, Political Philosophy
Christine WALKER
Early America/Atlantic World, Women’s and gender history, Slavery, colonialism, imperialism
Christophe Coupé
Language evolution, phonetics, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, psycho-phenomenology, social psychology
Daniel Chua
Musicology, Beethoven, absolute music, music philosophy, music and technology
David POMFRET
Histories of childhood and youth, Colonial and imperial history, European comparative history
David Villena
Philosophy and ethics of digital technologies and AI, Philosophy of mind and psychology, Philosophy of language, Applied ethics
Devika SHANKAR
Modern South Asia, Environmental history, Law and empire, Indian Ocean, Coastlines
Dr Agnes Kang
Discourse and identity; multimodal discourse analysis; gender identity; interactional sociolinguistics
Dr Antony Huen
Hong Kong poetry, Contemporary British poetry, Transculturalism and transnationalism, The intersection of poetry and the visual arts, Creative writing in higher education
Dr Benjamin Horn
Digital Games; New Media; Narrative Design; Roleplaying Games; Creative Communications
Dr Brandon Chua
17th and 18th Century British Literature; Critical Theory; History of Sexualities; History of the Novel; Literature and Jacobitism; Religion and Literature; Shakespeare Adaptation Studies
Dr Elizabeth Ho
Comics and Graphic Novels; Contemporary Literature; Geo-Humanities; Global Literatures in English; Neo-Victorian Studies; Postcolonial Theory and Fiction
Dr Jasper Zhao Zhen Wu
Language policy; mental health communication; youth development; technology-mediated communication; AI-human interaction; sociolinguistics; transcultural discourses; workplace mental health
Dr Jennifer Gresham
Transnational genre and genrification; subcultural taste formations; media convergence and remediation in pop culture; world Modernism; world literatures
Dr Kristen Murray
Grief and bereavement in Shakespeare; social inequality; mortality; contemporary drama; critical theory; educational interventions for public health
Dr May Wong
Corpus linguistics; cognitive linguistics; discourse analysis; multimodality; social semiotics; translation studies; World Englishes (especially Hong Kong English)
Dr Vincent Pak
Linguistic anthropology; sociolinguistics; gender, sexuality, and race; language and sexuality; race and citizen-state relations; politics of listening
Dr. Anna Marie Bautista
Gender and feminism; Media and popular culture; Television studies
Dr. Brenda Alegre
Gender; Sexuality; Transgender and non-binary identities; Social and Clinical Psychology; Migrant queer identities; Faith, religion and spirituality and Queer identities; Intersectionalities
Dr. CHAN Wing Ming
Chinese intellectual history; Chinese historiography; history of Qing China
Dr. CHAN Yan Yan Lena
Modern Chinese literature and thought; history of TCFL (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language); university-level Chinese curriculum development
Dr. CHOI Sung Hei
History of Song China; History of Material Culture in China; History of Chinese Historiography; History of Economic and Social Development in China
Dr. CHU Shiao Ying Sharon
Epistemology of translation; Translation pedagogy; Relationship between translation and philosophy
Dr. CHUNG Ming Wai Christy
Chinese for Professional Communication, Lexicology, Rhetorical Studies
Dr. Crystal Kwok
Film, Media, Theater, Performance; Transpacific feminism; Memory and oral history; Afro-Asian relations; Gender and sexuality
Dr. Danny Weng-kit Chan
Temporality, communal imaginations, spectrality in the cultural economy/exchanges of Hong Kong, Mainland China & Southeast Asia
Dr. Derek Lam
World cinema, film aesthetics, Hong Kong cinema, film history/theory, filmic representation of societal development
Dr. Esther C.M. Yau 丘靜美
Hong Kong cinema/globalization, gender/film, trauma/testimony, Chinese film festivals, Asian/New Wave cinemas
Dr. Fiona Yuk-Wa Law
Hong Kong & Asian cinema, cultural & visual studies, nostalgia, animal studies, urban culture, cinematic representations
Dr. FUNG Kam Wing
History of science and technology in East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Ryukyu); scientific instruments and cartographical prints; Jesuit science; Islamic science; Chinese philosophy and scholarship; intellectual history and culture in modern China; Chinese classics (Book of Changes); medieval Chinese culture; Chinese language history; China-West cultural exchange; printing culture in East Asia; Hong Kong history; Japanese religion and intellectual history
Dr. HO Kai Man
Classical Chinese Literary Criticism, Classical Chinese Prose, Classical Chinese Poetry
Dr. HO Wai Chi Vichy
Communication and Presentation Skills, Debating Skills, E-Learning, Innovative Chinese Language Teaching
Dr. HUI Chun Hing
History of Song-Ming China; history of Chinese legal system, political institutions, education, examination, economic development; teaching of Chinese History and Confucian Classics in Hong Kong
Dr. Ian Fong
Literary and cultural studies, Shanghai/Beijing/Hong Kong/Taipei in Literary/Cultural Studies, Hong Kong cinema/culture
Dr. Jason Coe
Transpacific & Asian American film/media; genre & collective memory; feminist, gender, sexual, and racial equity
Dr. LAI Hing Fong Camilla
Aesthetic Studies, Ancient Chinese Culture & Art, Ancient Prose, Ci and Shi Poems, Classical Fiction, Gender Study, Women's Literature
Dr. LEE Heung Sing
Chinese Language Teaching, Classical Chinese Prose, Ming-Qing Literature
Dr. Leiya Lee
Film theory, music, time travel, psychoanalysis, adaptation, digital media, hybrid cinematic forms
Dr. LEUNG Ming Fai Maggie
Cultural Studies, Performance Studies, Politics and Aesthetics of Everyday Life, Somaesthetics
Dr. LIN Hsueh Yi
Confucianism, Early Modern China, Ethics, Gender Studies, Historical Memory, Historiography, Intellectual History
Dr. MING Yau Yau
Chinese Bibliography, Chinese Classics, Chinese Historiography, Chinese Intellectual History, Ming dynasty studies
Dr. PANG Chin Chi
Ancient Chinese Texts, Chinese Philology, The Father-son Duo Wang Niansun and Wang Yinzhi, Theoretical Linguistics
Dr. POON Hon Fong Connie
Ancient Chinese Classics, Chinese Language Teaching, Chinese Philology
Dr. Stacilee Ford
Transnational Cultural History; Gender, Generation, and Leadership; Gender and History; Transnational Feminist Studies; Transnational American Studies; Hong Kong-US Connections
Dr. SZE Chi Wing
Classical Chinese Literature and Fiction, Comparative Cultural Studies, Poem Studies in Ming and Qing Dynasties
Dr. TO Yeuk Hung
Chinese Culture Studies, Classical Shi and Ci Poetry, Modern Creative Writing and Translation, Professional Chinese Writing
Dr. TONG Man Shan Angel
Cantonese Linguistics, Chinese Linguistics, Interfaces, Phonology, Prosodic Syntax, Syntax
Dr. WANG Aihe
Ancient Chinese cosmology; Political culture and agency; Underground art and community during Mao’s Cultural Revolution; Everyday history and memory of the Mao era; Chinese history and anthropology
Dr. WANG Shuang
Cultural history of Chinese music; Film music; Chinese theatre; Guzheng performance
Dr. Winnie L. M. Yee 余麗文
Eco-criticism, contemporary Chinese literature/film, HK culture, Asian independent cinema, postcolonial theories
Dr. WONG Ching Sum Sarah
AI in Chinese teaching and learning, Chinese Language Education, Chinese Paleography, L2 Chinese
Dr. WONG Yuk Tung
Chinese language and culture; Chinese intellectual history; history of Chinese historiography; history of Qing China
Dr. YEUNG Man Shun
History of China-West relations; Late imperial Chinese history; Buddhism and Christianity; Chinese language and culture; Early Hong Kong history
Dr. YEUNG Wing On Henri
Civilization and cultural history of imperial China; Chinese eroticism; religious Daoism; popular religions of traditional China; regional history of South China, Hong Kong and S.E. Asia; migration history of overseas Chinese in S.E. Asia and Australia; political history; dynastic history (Sui, Tang, Ming); Qing era Hong Kong annals
Dr. YIM Tsz Kit
Affect Theory, Ecocriticism, Gender, Global Adaptations and Translations of Classic Chinese Novels, Infrastructure Studies
Dr. YU Yan
Chinese Etymology; Phonology; Chinese classic literature; traditional performing arts
Dr. ZHANG Xue
Chinese Language Education, Chinese Linguistics, Pragmatics, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Syntax
Dr. Zoe Meng Jiang
Media theory/history, documentary media, gender/feminism, moving-image arts
Felix Yeung
Critical theory, Ethics and Social theory of Artificial Intelligence, Neoliberalism, Psychoanalytic Theory, Psychosocial Studies
Ghassan MOAZZIN
Modern Chinese History, Economic and Business History, Global History, History of Technology
Hanbo Liao
Tones, areal linguistics, language contact, comparative linguistics, grammar, sociolinguistics, oral traditions (Sinitic, Kra-Dai, South China/SE Asia)
Harold Ng
Chinese Pre-Qin Philosophy, Zhuangzi, Han Feizi, Comparative Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Herman Cappelen
Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, Metaphilosophy, Philosophy of Language, Conceptual Engineering, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind
Hing Yuet Fung
Performance theory of typology, processing efficiency, adverb positions, numeral classifier constructions, corpus studies (Japanese)
Isaac Lowe
Moral and Political Philosophy, Kant, Rawls, Rise of Modernity, Modernization
Javier CHA
Intellectual and Cultural History of East Asia, Digital History, Comparative Studies of Data Centers and the Cloud Industry
Jesús Olguín-Martinez
Linguistic Typology, Corpus & Cognitive Linguistics, Language Documentation, Quantitative Linguistics, syntax, language contact
Joe Perry
Language description (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal), syntax, phonology, interaction of syntax & phonology
John CARROLL
Modern Chinese History, Hong Kong History, Colonialism and Imperialism in Asia
Jonathan Havenhill
Phonetics, phonology, language variation and change, sociophonetics, ultrasound tongue imaging
José Vicente Neglia
Ethnomusicology, popular music studies, sound studies, cultural memory
Kofi Yakpo
Multilingualism, language contact, creoles, Asian diaspora languages, language change, grammatical and lexicon change
Leo Francis Hoye
Semantics, pragmatics (modality, evidentiality), visual pragmatics, multimodality
LI Ji
Late imperial and modern China; Religion and Christianity; Women and Gender; Global History and Microhistory
Maurice Windleburn
Sonic ontologies, modernist France, sound studies, contemporary avant-garde music
Max Deutsch
Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Philosophical Methods
Mohammad Momenian
Neurolinguistics, neural representation of languages, aging and language comprehension, neuroimaging, EEG, fMRI
Mr Felix Wong
Creative nonfiction; memoir; personal essay; identity; Chinese traditions and values
Mr. LEE Yat Wah Walter
Bible Translation, Commercial Dispute Resolution, Data Protection Law, Employment Law
Mr. YU Shing Roy
Cantonese Teaching, Chinese Dialectology, Chinese Etymology, Phonology
Ms Almeida, Dora
Portuguese linguistics, second language acquisition, Portuguese and Brazilian cinema
Ms Emma Chen
Interdisciplinary creativity; Artistic-scientific synthesis; Guqin and classical music; Multimedia storytelling
Ms Kan Chi Poon
Aesthetics; curatorship; visual analysis; cognitive aesthetics; interdisciplinary methods; photography; video; interactive media; installation art; mixed media creation
Ms. CHAN Yeung Helen
Cantonese Teaching, Practical Chinese teaching, Teaching Chinese as a Second Language
Ms. CHEN Yunjia
Teaching Cantonese as a foreign language; comparison of Cantonese and Mandarin for teaching applications
Ms. HUNG Pik Yi Betty
Differences between Cantonese and Mandarin (phonology, grammar, culture); Cantonese and Mandarin language teaching; Hong Kong customs and culture; language textbook/dictionary publishing
Ms. LI Xiaoyi
Language-based art therapy; transnational film and television collaboration; digital Chinese teaching methods; intercultural communication
Ms. MAN Wai Chung Sindy
Teaching Cantonese for international, postgraduate, and staff students; official writing and training for Hong Kong civil servants
Ms. SUNG Ka Yee Rosa
Cantonese linguistics; teaching Cantonese as a foreign language; research on Cantonese language
Ms. YANG Hong
Grammar teaching in TCFL; spoken Chinese teaching in TCFL (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language)
Ms. YUEN Sung Ying
Teaching Chinese Language and Cantonese in tertiary institutions; utilising teaching methods to enhance learning effectiveness
Olivia Lam
Syntax, morphology, double object constructions, morphosyntax of Chinese and African languages
Oscar SANCHEZ-SIBONY
Soviet Union, Cold War, Global Capitalism, History of energy and finance, Decolonization
Prof Bezabeh, Samson
Diaspora studies, Religion and media, citizenship, ethnicity, and class in the Horn of Africa
Prof Fernández Melleda, Bárbara
Latin American Literatures and Cultures, Memory Studies, Sino-Latin American Relations
Prof. Alvin Wong
Queer theory, Sinophone studies, HK literature/cinema, transnational feminism, environmental humanities
Prof. Beth Harper
Premodern European & Chinese literature/theory, tragedy, lyric, eco-criticism, psychoanalysis, comparative poetics
Prof. CHEN Liangliang
Classical Chinese Drama, Intellectual History of Late Imperial China, Ming-Qing Literature
Prof. CHU Ming Kin
Chinese Historiography, Middle-period Chinese History (Five Dynasties, Song and Yuan)
Prof. CHU Yiu Wai Stephen
Cantopop, Globalization, Hong Kong Cinema, Hong Kong Culture, Hong Kong Studies, Postcolonial Theories
Prof. Daniel Elam
Transnational Asian & African literatures, modernism, postcolonial theory, global intellectual history, anticolonial movements
Prof. Daniel Vukovich
Colonialism/imperialism, China-West, politics of knowledge, dialectics, representation
Prof. Elizabeth LaCouture
Gender; Intersectionality and race; Beauty; Visual and material culture; Architecture; Hong Kong women’s magazines
Prof. Grace En-Yi Ting
Gender and sexuality in Japan; Literary and cultural studies (e.g. literature, manga); Girls’ culture; Queer theory and queer Asian studies; Transnational and women of color feminisms; Sinophone studies and diaspora; Translation
Prof. Isaac YUE
Chinese Food Literature and Culture, Classical Chinese Fiction, Cultural Identity, East-West Cultural Exchanges
Prof. Jean Ma
Film & media history/theory, Asian cinema, gender/sexuality, sound studies, moving image art
Prof. LEUNG Shuk Man
Cultural Cold War in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Literature, Late Qing Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature
Prof. LIN Pei Yin
Chinese Language Cinema, Cold War Sinophone Literary Production and Cultural Geopolitics, East Asian Comparative Literature, Gender & Ethnicity Studies
Prof. Mark MEULENBELD
Daoism and its interaction with the traditions of local cults, including narratives and rituals in the vernacular context
Prof. MIAO Xiaojing
Autobiography, Ghostwriting, Historiography, Medieval Chinese Literature, Self-writing, Tang Poetry
Prof. Nicholas Y. H. WONG
Chinese-English Translation, Global Chinese Literatures, Media and Modernity in China and Southeast Asia
Prof. Nicole Huang
Shanghai literature, Chinese visual/auditory culture, women and war, world literature, Eileen Chang studies
Prof. Olivia MILBURN
Court culture in imperial China, Historical representation of minority groups (disabled, ethnic minorities)
Prof. Richard Van Ness SIMMONS
Chinese Dialectology, Chinese Historical Linguistics, Chinese Sociolinguistics, Dialect Geography
Prof. SONG Gang
China-West Cultural Exchanges in History, Christianity in Late Imperial China, Ming-Qing Studies
Prof. SONG Geng
Chinese Television Culture, Gender and Sexuality, Masculinities in East Asia, Translation and Cross-cultural Studies
Prof. SU Xin
Early China, History of environment and landscape, History of material culture, History of Science and Technology
Prof. TANG Pui Ling
Chinese Paleography, Classical Chinese Grammar, Early Chinese Texts, Excavated Chinese Texts
Prof. TANG Siu Fu
Chinese Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, Confucianism, Ethics, Sinology, Social and Political Philosophy
Prof. TONG Chun Fung
Early Chinese Historiography, Manuscript Culture in Premodern China, Social, Political and Institutional History
Prof. TSE Yiu Kay
Language, Society, and Culture, Lexical studies on classical works, Modern Chinese
Prof. WANG Ding Kun
Audiovisual Translation, Fan Cultures, Media Industries, Media Theory
Prof. WANG Pei
Carl Jung, Comparative Philosophy, Confucianism, Emmanuel Levinas, Feminism, Intellectual History, Jacques Derrida
Prof. WEI Yan Vivien
Modern Chinese Literature, Popular Literature, Popular Literature and Culture of Hong Kong, Sinophone Studies
Prof. WU Cuncun
Ancient Chinese Culture and Art, Chinese Culture Studies, Drama, East-West Cultural Exchange, Fiction
Prof. YANG Bin Bin
Chinese Women's Literature, Comparative Literature, Ming-Qing Literature, Women and Gender Studies
Prof. YAO Xiao Fang
Chinese Diaspora, Linguistic Landscape, Minority Community, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics
Prof. ZHAO Ming
Chinese Lexicology, Chinese Linguistics, Chinese Pedagogical Grammar, Ming-Qing Chinese, Teaching Chinese as a Second Language
Prof. ZHOU Boqun
Chinese Paleography, Early Chinese Intellectual History, History of Science and Technology
Professor Anjuli Gunaratne
Caribbean Literary Studies (Anglophone and Francophone); Global Anglophone and World Literature; Literary Theory; Postcolonial Literature and Theory
Professor Anya Adair
Old and Middle English literature; medieval English literature; law and literature; pre-modern English legal history; book history; manuscript studies; digital humanities
Professor Brian King
Critical sociolinguistics; discourse analysis; gender; health communication (intersex and sexual development); linguistic landscapes; sexuality
Professor Christopher Hutton
Language and the law; history and politics of linguistics; sociolinguistics of slang and jargon
Professor Daniel Weston
Dialectology; Gatekeeping; Historical Sociolinguistics; Linguistics And Education; World Englishes
Professor Don Kulick
Disability studies; interspecies communication; language and psychoanalysis; language and sexuality; language shift and language death; language socialization; Melanesia; queer studies; sex work; trans studies
Professor Hanwool Choe
Interactional Sociolinguistics; Qualitative Discourse Analysis; Social Media; Family; Food
Professor Janny Leung
Cognitive approaches to meaning and conceptual organisation; implicit learning of language; language and the law; legal and political communication; legal bilingualism and multilingualism; language politics and language rights; law, digital governance, and linguistic minorities; translation and interpreting
Professor Kendall Johnson
American literature; anthropology and literature; colonial through early-twentieth centuries; history of the novel; law and literature; Native American literatures; postcolonial theory; race studies; transnational dimensions of the China trade; visual aesthetics
Professor Nan Zhang
19th and early 20th century British literature; aesthetics and ethics; cosmopolitan studies; economics; global modernism; history of political thought
Professor Nicholas Luke
Aesthetics; Drama; Early Modern Literature; Law And Literature; Literary Theory; Religion And Literature; Shakespeare
Professor Olga Zayts
Health communication; sociolinguistics; gender and health (in)equalities; multicultural and multilingual healthcare; genetic/genomic medicine and counselling; end-of-life care; mental health; inter-professional dialogue
Professor Ricky Chan
Experimental phonetics; forensic phonetics; implicit and explicit language learning; psycholinguistics; cognitive approaches to second language acquisition
Professor Tara Lee
18th and 19th Century British Literature and Culture (Romanticism & Victorian); literature, science, and technology; biopolitics and the body; print and visual culture; literary theory and poetics (lyric and epic); orientalism and empire; environmental humanities and animal studies; digital humanities
Professor Tong King Lee
East Asian Englishes; intercultural and nonverbal communication; translanguaging; artificial intelligence for creative writing and translation
Rujing Stacy Huang
Musicology, critical AI studies, philosophy, ritual music, musical nationalism
Wang Kangyu
Decision Theory and Practical Reason, Philosophy of AI, Philosophy of Economics and Finance
Wenjing Ni
Psycholinguistics, AI, NLP, computational linguistics, media study, digital humanities
Winnie Ho
Literacy studies, linguistic ethnography, ESP/EAP, Cantonese for non-Chinese, academic writing, research methodology
XU Guoqi
Transnational and Shared History of China and the world, History of Sports of China and the World, History of US-China relations, First World War Studies.
Yang Yuanzheng
Musical history of East Asia, Bronze Age instruments, ancient manuscripts, qin music
Yoonsang Song
Language processing (syntactic, morphological, phonological, prosodic), second language learners, bilinguals, EEG, machine learning
Youn Kim
History of music theory, psychology of music, music perception, music and body
Yuen Ho Yin
Social and Global Justice, Culture and Justification, Responsibility, Ethics, Global Political Economy
Yuyan Xue
Psycholinguistics, language-cognition interplay, linguistic regularities, behavioral, ERP, EEG-based network analysis, machine learning
