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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

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