Academic Staff

 

Head of School



Dr O. Heim
(Lic. phil., PhD Basel)
Postcolonial literatures in English, American literature, literary and cultural theory

Tel: 2859-2770 Office: MB 215 Email: oheim@hku.hk

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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: 2859-2761 Office: MB 118 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: 2241-5142 Office: MB 105A Email: chutton@hkucc.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: 2859-7938 Office: MB 113C 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: 2241-5143 Office: MB 112 Email: wchgan@hkucc.hku.hk

Dr J. Kuehn
(MA Bonn, MSt Oxon, PhD London)
The long nineteenth century; popular literature and culture; critical theory

Tel: 2859-1921 Office: MB 111 Email: jkuehn@hkucc.hku.hk

Dr P. K. Richards
(MA, PhD Harvard; MA Creative Writing, Boston)
Drama, creative writing, American literature, poetry, and theory

Tel: 2241-5145 Office: MB 113A 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: 2859-2766 Office:MB 113H 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: 2859-1923 Office: MB 108 Email: qstong@hku.hk

Assistant Professors


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: 2219 4474 Office: MB114D Email: khychen@hku.hk

Dr A. Kang
(BA Cornell, MA, PhD UC Santa Barbara)
Discourse; interactional sociolinguistics; bilingualism; language and culture

Tel: 2859-2754 Office: MB 216 Email: makang@hkucc.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: 2859 7932 Office: MB113 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: 2859 2871 Office: MB 206 Email: lisalim@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: 2859-1922 Office: MB 214 Email: dnoel@hkucc.hku.hk

Dr. A. Pablé
(MA UZH, PhD University of Zurich)
integrational linguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, semiotics, history of linguistics, translation studies, literary linguistics

Tel: 2859-2750
Office: MB 207 Email: apable@hku.hk

Post-doctoral Fellow


Dr. Maureen Chun
Post-doctoral Fellow
Tel: 2219 4487 Office:MB203A Email: mchun@hku.hk

Visiting Professors


Dr G. Gould
(PhD HKU)
Visiting Associate Professor

Tel: 2219 4475 Office:MB114E Email: gegould@hkucc.hku.hk

 

Honorary Professors


Dr S. Alderson
(MA, PhD Cantab)
Honorary Assistant Professor

Email: alderson@hkucc.hku.hk

Professor K. Bolton
(University of Stockholm)
Honorary Professor

Email: Kingsley.Bolton@english.su.se

Dr P. Chan
(BA, MA HKU, DipEd CUHK, PhD Nottingham)
Honorary Associate Professor

tel:2241-5144
Office: MB203 Email: philip@hku.hk

Dr G. V. S. Chin
(BA, MA Malaya, PhD HKU)
Honorary Assistant Professor
Email: gvschin@hotmail.com

Dr H. Hwang
(BA Harvard; MA, PhD London )
Honorary Assistant Professor

Email: haewonh@mac.com

Professor S. G. L. Lim
(University of California, Santa Barbara)
Honorary Professor

Dr J. McMahon
Honorary Assistant Professor

Email: jmcmahon@hku.hk

Dr Harshana Rambukwella
(BA (Hon) Peradeniya, PhD HKU))
Honorary Assistant Professor

tel:2241-5146
Office: MB230 Email: sassanka@hku.hk

Dr T.K. Richards
Honorary Associate Professor

Dr C. Rowe
Honorary Assistant Professor

Professor John Thieme
Honorary Professor

Dr Marco Wan
Honorary Assistant Professor
Tel: 2219 4349 Office: 302A-2, K.K.Leung Building Email: mwan@hkucc.hku.hk

Professor H.-G. Wolf
(Potsdam University, Germany)
Honorary Professor

Email: hanswolf@hkucc.hku.hk

 


Last updated: 18 January 2012