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EVENTS
31 Oct 2020
Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2020

The Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2020 will go virtual on October 31, 2020 (Saturday). Join the live chats (10:00am to 12:00nn) and mock lectures on English literature (12:30pm), and English linguistics (2:00pm)!

We look forward to meeting our prospective students and parents online soon.
02 Nov 2020
(Gay) Panic Attack

Professor David Eng, Richard L. Fisher Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
9:30am
Room 434, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower (F2F)
Streamed via Zoom: Please register for Zoom link
05 Nov 2020
Dr Katherine Hindley
‘Take and Write These Words in Butter’: Reading and Writing Healing Words in Medieval England

Time: 16:30 - 18:00

Venue: 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.
31 Oct 2020
Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2020

The Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2020 will go virtual on October 31, 2020 (Saturday). Join the live chats (10:00am to 12:00nn) and mock lectures on English literature (12:30pm), and English linguistics (2:00pm)!

We look forward to meeting our prospective students and parents online soon.
02 Nov 2020
(Gay) Panic Attack

Professor David Eng, Richard L. Fisher Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
9:30am
Room 434, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower (F2F)
Streamed via Zoom: Please register for Zoom link
05 Nov 2020
Dr Katherine Hindley
‘Take and Write These Words in Butter’: Reading and Writing Healing Words in Medieval England

Time: 16:30 - 18:00

Venue: 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.
NEWS
30Oct2020
e-SS23 Welcome Video

The Sociolinguistics Symposium 23 organizing committee welcomes you all virtually to the e-SS23 with our welcome video. 

20Oct2020
Outstanding Teaching Award (Team) 2019

The BA&LLB team has won the Outstanding Teaching Award (Team) 2019. The team includes Professor Janny H.C. Leung, Dr. Marco M.H. Wan, Dr. Daniel C. Matthews and Dr. Anya M. Adair.

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
Book chapter

Dr Otto Heim

Beyond the Rim? Redrawing Boundaries in Pacific Theatre

Shifting Grounds: Cultural Tectonics along the Pacific Rim. Ed. Jutta Ernst and Brigitte Glaser. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020. 63-77.
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)
Editorship

Dr Adrian Pablé

New Directions for Integrational Linguistics

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

Dr Otto Heim

Beyond the Rim? Redrawing Boundaries in Pacific Theatre

Shifting Grounds: Cultural Tectonics along the Pacific Rim. Ed. Jutta Ernst and Brigitte Glaser. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020. 63-77.
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)
Editorship

Dr Adrian Pablé

New Directions for Integrational Linguistics

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