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Distinguished Scholars

Chair Professors

Staff picture Professor John ERNI
  • Chair Professor of Cultural Studies, Department of Literature and Cultural Studies

Areas of Expertise

  • International and Asia-based Media and Cultural Studies

  • Critical Legal Theory Centering on Human Rights Philosophy, Ethics and Politics

  • Gender and Sexuality Studies Related to Media and Visual Culture

  • Youth Studies in Transnational Contexts

  • Digital Humanities for Cultural Diversity

  • Cultural Politics of Race/Ethnicity/Migration

  • Critical Public Health Studies

Staff picture Professor HJORT Anne Mette
Professor HJORT Anne Mette
  • Chair Professor of Film and Media Studies and Head, Department of Literature and Cultural Studies

Areas of Expertise

  • Transnational Cinema
  • The Cinemas of Small Nations
  • Film and Public Value
  • Talent Development in Film
  • Film, Well-being and Human Flourishing
Staff picture Professor LIN Mei Yi Angel
Professor LIN Mei Yi Angel
  • Chair Professor of Language, Literacy & Social Semiotics in Education, Department of English Language Education

Areas of Expertise

  • Translanguaging (TL)
  • Trans-semiotising (TS)
  • Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
  • Academic Literacies
  • Critical Media Literacies
  • Decoloniality in Education
Staff picture Professor Cheng Kat Hung Dennis
Professor CHENG Kat Hung Dennis
  • Chair Professor, Department of Literature and Cultural Studies

Areas of Expertise
Confucianism, Chinese intellectual history and East Asian hermeneutic traditions focusing on the interpretation theories of the Classic of Changes (Yijing and their commentaries), involving the disciplines of history, philology, philosophy, and their inner connections.

Professors

Staff picture Prof CHAN, Wai Keung Timothy
Professor CHAN Wai Keung Timothy
  • Professor and Head, Department of Chinese Language Studies

Areas of Expertise

  • Classical Chinese Literature
  • Early Religious Literature
  • Comparative Literature
Staff picture GU, Ming Yue Michelle
  • Professor, Department of English Language Education
  • Dean, Graduate School

Areas of Expertise

  • Multilingualism and Mobility
  • EMI in Higher Education
  • (Digital) Citizenship and Identity Studies
  • Minority Education
  • Family Language Policy
Staff picture Professor HUNG Keung
Professor HUNG Keung
  • Professor, Department of Cultural and Creative Arts

Areas of Expertise

  • Digital Media Art & Tech

  • Digital Moving Images Research and Professional Practice

  • Creative Cross-disciplinary Collaboration

Staff picture Professor YU Kwan Wai Eric
  • Professor (Practice), Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies

Areas of Expertise

  • Language and Gender

  • English Language Education

  • Textbook Studies 

Professor LEE Kwai Sang
Professor LEE Kwai Sang
  • Professor, Department of Literature and Cultural Studies

Areas of Expertise

  • Early Chinese Texts
  • Traditional Chinese Culture
  • Classical Chinese Literature
  • Literary Criticism
Staff picture Professor LEUNG Bo Wah
  • Professor, Department of Cultural and Creative Arts

Areas of Expertise

  • Creativity in Music

  • Music Curriculum Development

  • Motivation in Composing & Learning Music

  • Transmission of Cantonese Opera in Hong Kong

  • Transformative Learning

Staff picture Professor LEUNG Pui Wan Pamela
  • Acting Dean, Faculty of Humanities
  • Professor (Practice), Department of Chinese Language Studies
  • Associate Dean (Quality Assurance and Enhancement), Faculty of Humanities

Areas of Expertise

  • Language Teacher Education

  • Chinese Education 

  • Teaching Chinese as a Second Language

Staff picture Professor SI Chung Mou
  • Professor (Practice), Department of Chinese Language Studies

Areas of Expertise

  • Chinese Linguistics
  • Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
  • Chinese Culture
Staff picture Professor Wang Lixun
  • Professor (Practice), Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies (LML)
  • Associate Dean (International Engagement), Faculty of Humanities

Areas of Expertise

  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Computer-Assisted Language Learning
  • English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
  • Multilingual Education
  • English-Chinese Translation Studies