Professor Fan Gabriel Fang received his PhD in Applied Linguistics and Modern Languages from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Before joining The Education University of Hong Kong, he was Professor and Director of the Centre for Global Studies at Shantou University. 

Professor Fang’s research interests include Global Englishes, translanguaging, intercultural communication, and English language education in multilingual contexts. His work places particular emphasis on challenging native-speakerism ideology from Global Englishes and translanguaging perspectives, and to promoting more inclusive and equitable approaches to English teaching and learning in English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) contexts. His publications appear in leading international journals such as TESOL Quarterly, Language Teaching Research, System, Language Policy, and Language and Education. His monograph is titled Re-positioning accent attitude in the Global Englishes paradigm (Routledge) and he is co-editor of Critical perspectives on global Englishes in Asia: Language policy, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment (2019), Policies, politics, and ideologies of English medium instruction in Asian universities: Unsettling critical edges (2023) and English-medium instruction pedagogies in multilingual universities in Asia (2024). 

Professor Fang serves on the editorial boards of prestigious journals, such as Language, Culture and Curriculum, and RELC Journal. He is associate editor of Language and Education, Cogent Education, and media review editor of TESOL Journal. He has been among the World’s Top 2% most-cited scientists by Stanford University since 2023 and a highly cited Chinese scholar on Elsevier’s list from 2021 to 2025.