Dr
O. Heim
(Lic. phil., PhD Basel)
Postcolonial literatures in English, American literature,
literary and cultural theory
Tel: 3917-2770 Office: CRT-7.41 Email: oheim@hku.hk
Professors
Professor
E.Y.L. Ho
(BA, MPhil HK, PhD London)
Literature of the English Renaissance; Shakespeare; literature
in English; postcolonial literature and theory
Tel: 3917-2761 Office: CRT-8.38 Email: eylho@hkucc.hku.hk
Professor C. M. Hutton Chair Professor
(MA, DPhil Oxon, MA Columbia)
Sociolinguistics; sociology of language; semantics; semiotics;
philosophy of linguistics; criminological linguistics (triad
studies); language and the law
Tel: 3917-5142 Office: CRT-8.34 Email: chutton@hkucc.hku.hk
Professor A. Jaworski
(MA, PhD Poznan)
Sociolinguistics; discourse analysis; multimodality; language and globalization; linguistic landscapes; language and art
Tel: 3917-7274 Office: CRT-8.42 Email: jaworski@hku.hk
Professor D.W.F. Kerr
(MA Cantab, PhD Warwick)
Modern literature and modernism; the novel; literary
representations of the East; colonial discourse analysis
Tel: 3917-7938 Office: CRT-8.40 Email:
kerrdw@hku.hk
Associate
Professors
Dr W. Gan
(BA, PhD London)
Early twentieth-century women's writing (modernist and non-modernist);
the essay genre; Asian film; feminist theory
Tel:
3917-5143 Office: CRT-8.39 Email: wchgan@hkucc.hku.hk
Dr
J. Kuehn
(MA Bonn, MSt Oxon, PhD London, Habilitation Bamberg)
The long nineteenth century; popular literature and culture;
critical theory
Tel: 3917-1921 Office: CRT-7.44 Email: jkuehn@hku.hk
Dr
D. Noël
(MA Antwerp, PhD Ghent)
The semantics/pragmatics of grammar, grammaticalization,
diachronic construction grammar, clausal complementation
in English, Dutch-French-English contrastive verb valency,
evidentiality, empirical linguistics.
Tel: 3917-1922 Office: CRT-7.39 Email: dnoel@hkucc.hku.hk
Dr
P. K. Richards
(MA, PhD Harvard; MA Creative
Writing, Boston)
Drama, creative writing, American literature, poetry, and
theory
Tel: 3917-5145 Office: CRT-8.37 Email: pkerr@hkucc.hku.hk
Dr
P. Smethurst
(BA, PhD London)
Postcolonial and postmodern literature and theory; travel
writing and the motif of travel in fiction; contemporary
British fiction and fiction in English from outside the
UK
Tel: 3917-2766 Office: CCB743 Email: paulsmet@hkusua.hku.hk
Dr Q.S.
Tong
(BA Nanking Normal, PhD London)
Romanticism; critical theory; the Western idea/image of
China; knowledge and power
Tel: 3917-1923 Office: CRT-8.41 Email:
qstong@hku.hk
Assistant
Professors
Dr F.L. Blumberg
(BA Amherst; MA Dartmouth; JD Virginia; PhD Stanford)
Renaissance literature; rhetoric; poetics; law and literature.
Tel: 3917-2764 Office: CRT-8.48 Email: blumberg@hku.hk
Dr
K. Chen
(BA, M.Phil HKU; MA, PhD
U Michigan)
Sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, Cantonese-English
bilingualism, language and identity, language ideologies,
sociolinguistic documentary films.
Tel: 3917-4474 Office: CRT-8.43 Email: khychen@hku.hk
Dr
J.H.C. Leung
(BA HKU; MPhil, PhD Cantab;
LLB London)
Psycholinguistics; second language acquisition; implicit
learning; language and the law; law and psychology.
Tel: 3917-7932 Office: CRT-8.36 Email: hiuchi@hkucc.hku.hk
Dr
L. Lim
(BA NUS; PhD Reading)
Programme
Coordinator in Language and Communication
World Englishes, Asian Englishes,
postcolonial Englishes, sociolinguistics, phonetics, prosody,
multilingualism, language maintenance, shift, endangerment
and revitalisation
Tel:
3917-2871 Office: CRT-7.42 Email: lisalim@hku.hk
Dr
A. Pablé
(MA UZH, PhD University of Zurich)
integrational linguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology,
semiotics, history of linguistics, translation studies,
literary linguistics
Tel: 3917-2750 Office: CRT-8.35 Email: apable@hku.hk
Dr
O. Zayts
(MA; PhD St Petersburg, Russia)
interactional approaches to professional communication, in particular in healthcare and business settings; genetic counselling communication; telegenetic counselling; inter-professional communication
Tel: 3917-7275 Office: CRT-7.38 Email: zayts@hku.hk
Principal Lecturer
Dr
A. Kang
(BA Cornell, MA, PhD UC Santa
Barbara)
Discourse; interactional sociolinguistics; bilingualism;
language and culture
Tel: 3917-2754 Office: CRT-7.40 Email: makang@hkucc.hku.hk
