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Professor
Professor Tong King Lee
PhD (Queensland); LLM (Edin.); BA, MA (NUS)
Professor
Professor Tong King Lee
PhD (Queensland); LLM (Edin.); BA, MA (NUS)
PROFILE
PROFILE

Tong King LEE is Professor of Language & Communication in the School of English, University of Hong Kong and Honorary Professor of Culture, Communication, and Media at University College London. He holds a Bachelor and Master of Arts from the National University of Singapore, a Master of Laws (Distinction) from the University of Edinburgh, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Translation and Interpreting Studies from the University of Queensland. He was Luce East Asia Fellow at the National Humanities Center, U.S. (2021), Lee Kong Chian Research Fellow at National Library, Singapore (2022), and IAS Fellow at Durham University (2023). Among the professional qualifications he holds include NAATI Certified Translator (Australia), Chartered Linguist (UK), and Specialist at the Hong Kong Accreditation Authority for Academic and Vocational Qualifications. The author of Choreographies of Multilingualism (Oxford UP), Kongish (Cambridge UP), and Translation as Experimentalism (Cambridge UP), he takes professional and academic interest in a wide range of subjects, including intercultural and nonverbal communication for global business; legal communication; World Englishes; translanguaging, multimodal and digital semiotics, and creative translation.

Individual Research Specialism

Translanguaging and translation; East Asian Englishes and vernaculars; multimodal and digital semiotics

Courses Offered in 2023-2024

ENGL1033 Intercultural Communication

ENGL2184/LCOM2007 Visual Communication

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Room 947, 9/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
East Asian Englishes and vernaculars; Multimodal and digital semiotics; Translanguaging and translation