The Department of English Language and Literature offers a wide range of expertise across the areas of literature, cultural studies, linguistics and translation, encouraging an interdisciplinary approach to academic research, knowledge development and transfer. We aim to provide advanced training that enables MPhil and PhD students to build up their theoretical and applied knowledge of one or more of the areas related to English Studies and acquire the skills and abilities necessary to conduct critical and original research in their field of specialisation. We place a special emphasis on interdisciplinary studies and we welcome theses that explore the intersections of literary and cultural studies, linguistics and translation.

Successful applicants will be assigned suitably qualified supervisors to guide their research. Profiles of research supervisors are provided on the department webpage. Interested applicants may contact a potential supervisor to discuss an area of research they are interested in.

Research Specialisms:

Staff	Rank	PhD		MPhil		Fields of Research
		PS	CS	PS	CS
Prof. Peter STOREY	Professor	V	V	V	V	Language Programme Evaluation Language Testing ELT Methodology Corpus-based data-driven learning Corpus Stylistics
Prof. Edward WEN	Professor		V		V	Second language acquisition Task based language teaching Psycholinguistics Language planning and policy Translation/interpreting studies Translanguaging
Dr. Rebekah BALE	Assistant Professor	V	V	V	V	Shakespearean Studies Contemporary Fiction Adaptation studies Post-colonial fiction
Dr. Michelle CHAN	Assistant Professor		V	V	V	Children’s Literature Victorian Literature Studies of Fantasy Graphic Narratives
Dr. Ben FREUDENBURG	Assistant Professor				V	Critical Theory Psychoanalysis Media and Film Theory
Dr. LAM Chit Yu, Cherry	Assistant Professor				V	Comparative grammar studies Pragmatics and conversation analysis Sociolinguistics and language variation Minority languages and language endangerment
Dr. LAM Yeeman	Assistant Professor		V	V	V	Environmental ethics and cultures Ecocriticism Language and Environment
Dr. Kacey LIU	Assistant Professor		V	V	V	Corpus-based Translation Studies Gender-based Translation Studies  Eco-translation Gender and Language Gender Studies
Dr. Benjamin OLIN	Assistant Professor				V	Film and Media Studies Contemporary Art and Literature Experimental Film and Literature Gender Studies Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
Dr. TAM King-fu	Adjunct Professor	V	V	V	V	Comparative Literature Crime and Spy genres Memories of war The Essay
Dr. WONG Man Ho, Ivy	Assistant Professor				V	Cognitive Linguistics Second language acquisition Usage-based approaches to language learning Computer-assisted grammar instruction

 PS: Principal Supervisor

CS: Co-Supervisor

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Mphil/PhD Admission 2023-2024

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