School of English | Faculty of Arts

SCHOOL OF ENGLISH

Welcome to the School of English at the University of Hong Kong

EVENTS

20 Aug 2020

Briefing Sessions on English Majors and Minors 2020-21

10:00 - 11:30 (for First-Year Students)
12:00 - 13:30 (for Second-Year and DAS Students)

Conducted via Zoom

07-10 Jun 2021

Sociolinguistics Symposium 23

As a premier gathering of international sociolinguists, this biennial event has emerged as a unique and innovative forum to develop and exchange new ideas, broaden the scope of the discipline, and create new academic networks.

20 Aug 2020

Briefing Sessions on English Majors and Minors 2020-21

10:00 - 11:30 (for First-Year Students)
12:00 - 13:30 (for Second-Year and DAS Students)

Conducted via Zoom

07-10 Jun 2021

Sociolinguistics Symposium 23

NEWS

31Jul2020

Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (MFA) is now open for Applications

2020-21 Full-time
Application Deadline:
12:00 noon, August 7, 2020 (for local applicants)

24Jul2020

2020-2021 Course Offerings and Time-table

Course Offerings and time-table in 2020-2021 are available now.

13Jul2020

School Office Opening Hours

In light of the latest developments of the novel coronavirus, the School office will open from 10:00 to 16:00 from 13th July, 2020 until further notice. We are sorry for the inconvenience caused.

22Jun2020

HKU TPG Scholarship for UG Class of 2020

The Master of Arts in English Studies and the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing in English offered by the School of English are on the programme list.

25Sep2019

Job Opening: Part-time administrative position in the School of English

06Aug2019

Job Opening: Adjunct teaching positions in MA programme

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Curriculum

Programme Handbook

Course Offerings and Timetable

FEATURED RESEARCH

Publication

Dr Nicholas Luke

Avoidance as Love: Evading Cavell on Dover Cliff

Modern Philology 2020 117:4, 445-469

Book chapter

Professor Adam Jaworski

EAT, LOVE and other (small) stories: Tellability and multimodality in Robert Indiana’s word art

2020. In Crispin Thurlow (ed.) The Business of Words: Linguists, Wordsmiths, and Other Language Workers. London: Routledge. 86–109.

PUBLICATION

Dr Anjuli Gunaratne

Corps Perdu: Aimé Césaire’s Theory of Tragedy

forthcoming, Research in African Literatures, Spring 2020.

Book Chapter

Dr Ricky Chan

Tone languages

In F. Nolan, K. McDougall & T. Hudson (Eds), Oxford Handbook of Forensic Phonetics. Oxford University Press. (expected in 2020)

Book chapter

Dr Otto Heim

Beyond the Rim? Redrawing Boundaries in Pacific Theatre

Shifting Grounds: Cultural Tectonics along the Pacific Rim. Ed. Brigitte Glaser and Jutta Ernst. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, forthcoming 2020.

Editorship

Dr Adrian Pablé

New Directions for Integrational Linguistics

Duncker, Dorthe & Adrian Pablé. (eds.). 2020. London: Routledge. (forthcoming)

Publication

Dr Nicholas Luke

Avoidance as Love: Evading Cavell on Dover Cliff

Modern Philology 2020 117:4, 445-469

Book chapter

Professor Adam Jaworski

EAT, LOVE and other (small) stories: Tellability and multimodality in Robert Indiana’s word art

2020. In Crispin Thurlow (ed.) The Business of Words: Linguists, Wordsmiths, and Other Language Workers. London: Routledge. 86–109.

PUBLICATION

Dr Anjuli Gunaratne

Corps Perdu: Aimé Césaire’s Theory of Tragedy

forthcoming, Research in African Literatures, Spring 2020.

Book Chapter

Dr Ricky Chan

Tone languages

In F. Nolan, K. McDougall & T. Hudson (Eds), Oxford Handbook of Forensic Phonetics. Oxford University Press. (expected in 2020)

Book chapter

Dr Otto Heim

Beyond the Rim? Redrawing Boundaries in Pacific Theatre

Shifting Grounds: Cultural Tectonics along the Pacific Rim. Ed. Brigitte Glaser and Jutta Ernst. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, forthcoming 2020.

Editorship

Dr Adrian Pablé

New Directions for Integrational Linguistics

Duncker, Dorthe & Adrian Pablé. (eds.). 2020. London: Routledge. (forthcoming)