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Faculty of Humanities

Distinguished Scholars

Chair Professors

Staff picture Professor CHENG Kat Hung Dennis

Chair Professor of Cultural History, Department of Literature and Cultural Studies


Areas of Expertise

  • Chinese Intellectual History

  • Studies of Yijing and its Philosophy

  • East Asian Hermeneutic Traditions and Theories

  • Intellectual History in Late Imperial China

Staff picture Professor John ERNI

Dean, Faculty of Humanities

 

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

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