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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 and Communication in the School of English, University of Hong Kong and Honorary Professor of Culture, Communication, and Media at University College London. He earned 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 Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies from the University of Queensland. He was Luce East Asia Fellow at the National Humanities Center, U.S.A. (2021), Lee Kong Chian Research Fellow at National Library, Singapore (2022), and IAS Fellow at Durham University (2023), and holds the professional qualifications of NAATI Certified Translator (Australia) and Chartered Linguist (UK). He is also a Specialist for the Hong Kong Council of Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ) and Fellow of the Industry Academy within the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA). Among the several books he has published include Choreographies of Multilingualism: Writing and Language Ideology in Singapore (Oxford University Press, 2022), Translation as Experimentalism: Exploring Play in Poetics (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and Kongish: Translanguaging and the Commodification of an Urban Dialect (Cambridge University Press, 2023). He takes professional and academic interest in intercultural and nonverbal communication for global business, translanguaging in digital media, and artificial intelligence for creative writing and translation.

Individual Research Specialism

Intercultural and nonverbal communication; East Asian Englishes; Translanguaging; Artificial Intelligence for creative writing and translation

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; Intercultural and nonverbal communication; Translanguaging; Artificial Intelligence for creative writing and translation