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MAJORS AND MINORS
Under the BA curriculum, we offer major and minor programmes in English Studies and Language and Communication.
EVENTS
23 Sep 2020
Communication in Health Care and the impact of COVID-19

International Consortium for Communication in Healthcare (IC4CH) webinar

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm (HKT)

Via Zoom
31 Oct 2020
Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2020

The Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2020 will go virtual on October 31, 2020 (Saturday).

 

Details on the live chats and mock lectures on English linguistics, and English literature will be announced in due course. Stay tuned!

 

We look forward to meeting our prospective students and parents online soon.

 



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.
23 Sep 2020
Communication in Health Care and the impact of COVID-19

International Consortium for Communication in Healthcare (IC4CH) webinar

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm (HKT)

Via Zoom
31 Oct 2020
Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2020

The Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2020 will go virtual on October 31, 2020 (Saturday).

 

Details on the live chats and mock lectures on English linguistics, and English literature will be announced in due course. Stay tuned!

 

We look forward to meeting our prospective students and parents online soon.

 



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.
NEWS
04Sep2020
School Office Opening Hours

In light of the latest developments of the novel coronavirus, the School office will resume normal levels of services from 7th September, 2020.

31Aug2020
Virtual Campus Tour to HKU and School of English

The video has been uploaded.

24Jul2020
2020-2021 Course Offerings and Time-table

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

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, Fall 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, Fall 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)