Distinguished Scholars

• Chair Professor of Cultural History, 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

• Chair Professor of Film and Media Studies, 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

• 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

• Chair Professor of Educational Research and Evaluation

Areas of Expertise

• Quantitative research methods

• Self-efficacy

• Self-regulation

• AI in educational research

• Chair Professor of Artificial Intelligence
• Assistant Vice President (Artificial Intelligence and Education Innovation)

Areas of Expertise

• Artificial intelligence

• Data science

• Recommendation systems

• Social computing

• Predictive analytics

• Professor and Head, Department of Chinese Language Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Classical Chinese Literature
• Early Religious Literature
• Comparative Literature

• Professor (Practice), Department of English Language Education

Areas of Expertise

• Global Englishes
• Language ideology
• Translanguaging
• English as a Medium of Instruction
• Intercultural communication
• Family language policy
• TESOL

• Professor, Department of English Language Education
• Assistant Vice President (Research), EdUHK

Areas of Expertise

• Multilingualism and Mobility
• EMI in Higher Education
• (Digital) Citizenship and Identity Studies
• Minority Education
• Family Language Policy

• 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

• Professor and Head, Department of English Language Education

Areas of Expertise

• Language attitudes and stereotypes

• Language and migration

• Language and gender

• Hong Kong English

• Attitudes and motivation in foreign language learning

• Discourse analysis

• 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

• Professor, Department of Literature and Cultural Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Early Chinese Texts
• Traditional Chinese Culture
• Classical Chinese Literature
• Literary Criticism

• Acting Dean, Faculty of Humanities
• Professor (Practice), Department of Chinese Language Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Language Teacher Education

• Chinese Education 

• Teaching Chinese as a Second Language

• Professor, Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies (LML)
• Associate Dean (Research and Postgraduate Studies), Faculty of Humanities

Areas of Expertise

• Second language vocabulary acquisition
• Corpus-based literature studies
• Corpus-based language pedagogy
• Computer assisted language learning
• Mobile assisted language learning
• AI in language education

• Professor and Acting Head, Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Applied linguistics
• Technology in language education
• Artificial intelligence
• Teacher professional development

• Professor (Teaching) and Associate Head, Department of English Language Education

Areas of Expertise

• Educational linguistics
• Bi/multilingualism
• Language assessment
• Literacy
• TESOL

• 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