SCHOOL OF ENGLISH



Researcher : ANFINSON AL

List of Research Outputs

ANFINSON A.L. and Anfinson-Aldayel N., (De)constructing national modernity: Nation branding and the staging of the Islamic State, The Sociolinguistics of Globalisation Conference: (De)centring and (de)standardization (SLXG2015). 2015.
ANFINSON A.L., The writing on the wall: The Umbrella Movement, languae and revolution, 7th Linguistic Landscape Conference (LL7). 2015.


Researcher : Blumberg FL

Project Title:Literature and its Rivals
Investigator(s):Blumberg FL
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:09/2012


Project Title:Working Words: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Heresy in Early Modernity
Investigator(s):Blumberg FL
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:01/2015




Researcher : Bolton KR

Project Title:The 7th International Association for World Englishes Conference (IAWE 2000) Chinese Englishes: From Canton Jargon to Global English
Investigator(s):Bolton KR
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:12/2000


Project Title:The study of English in Hong Kong: the international corpus of English project in Hong Kong (HK-ICE)
Investigator(s):Bolton KR, Nelson GA, Luke KK
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:07/2002


List of Research Outputs

Bacon-Shone J. and Bolton K.R., A study on the Use of Language in the Workplace of Hong Kong, SCOLAR, HKSARG. 2015.


Researcher : Chen KHY

Project Title:Coming home as strangers: A sociolinguistic ethnography of transnational bilinguals in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Chen KHY
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2011


Project Title:American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting; Folded arms and LV bags: Policing (Hong) “Kong Girl’s” desire in the new media
Investigator(s):Chen KHY
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2013


List of Research Outputs

Chen K.H.Y. and Kang M.A., Demeanor indexicals and the 'Kong Girl' stereotype in social media, Hong Kong Association of Applied Linguistics, Hong Kong. 2014.
Chen K.H.Y., English in Multilingual Hong Kong, The Sociolinguistics of Globalization Conference. 2015.
Chen K.H.Y., Language and identity in Hong Kong: Sociolinguistic insights from the local and returnee bilinguals , School of English, The University of Nottingham Ningbo, China. 2014.
Chen K.H.Y., Styling bilinguals: Analyzing structurally distinctive code-switching styles in Hong Kong, In: Gerald Stell and Kofi Yakpo , Code-switching at the crossroads between structural and sociolinguistic perspectives. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 2015.
Kang A.M. and Chen K.H.Y., Saving the “(Hong) Kong Girl” stereotype in social media discourse, The Sociolinguistics of Globalization Conference. 2015.


Researcher : DING Y

List of Research Outputs

DING Y. and Noel D., A corpus-based diachronic investigation of metaphorical containers of sadness in English, Cognitive Linguistic Studies. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2014, 1:2: 202-217.


Researcher : DU B

List of Research Outputs

DU B., Doing ethnographic work in Chinese criminal courts: A researcher's dilemma, Doing Research Integrity across the Arts and Humanities: A One-Day Workshop. 2015.
DU B., Interpreter-mediated legal-lay communication in the era of globalization: Nigerians in Chinese criminal courts, International Colloquium on Multilingualism and Interpreting in Settings of Globalization: Asylum and Migration. 2015.
DU B., Nigerians in Chinese criminal courts: The legal-lay encounter in the periphery, The Sociolinguistics of Globalization: (De)centring and (de)standardization (SLXG2015). 2015.
DU B., Space, signs and symbolic power in Chinese criminal courtrooms, 12th Biennial Conference on Forensic Linguistics. 2015.
DU B., The silent interpreter: A case study of language and ideology in the Chinese criminal court, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. 2015, 28 (3): 507-524.


Researcher : GRESHAM JF

List of Research Outputs

GRESHAM J.F., Sasori vs. The System?: The Female Convict Scorpion Series as Cult Cinema, The Sixth Asian Conference on the Arts and Humanities (IAFOR ACAH 2015). 2015.


Researcher : Gan WCH

Project Title:Middlebrow China: Imagining China in early 20th century Britain
Investigator(s):Gan WCH
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2012


List of Research Outputs

Gan W.C.H., 'Lessons' and 'Happy Birthday", Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. 2014.
Gan W.C.H., 'Puckish Protesting in the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement', 'Mob Politics in Asia', ARI, Singapore. 2015.
Gan W.C.H., In a Chinese Wonderland: Comic Travels in China Between the Wars, Huntington Library Lunchtime Talk. 2015.
Gan W.C.H., Mayers Fellowship, Huntington Library. 2015.


Researcher : Gisborne NS

Project Title:1st International Conference on Construction Grammar This Books as if might be a Construction: an Account of Quirky Complement Clauses
Investigator(s):Gisborne NS
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2001




Researcher : Heim O

Project Title:John Kneubuhl and Hawaiian Theatre
Investigator(s):Heim O
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:05/2014


Project Title:Island Cities and Urban Archipelagos; Oceanic Hong Kong?
Investigator(s):Heim O
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:10/2014
Completion Date:10/2014


List of Research Outputs

Heim O., Beyond the rim: redrawing boundaries in Pacific theatre, In: Jutta Ernst and Brigitte Glaser, Shifting Grounds: Cultural Tectonics along the Pacific Rim, University of Mainz Germersheim (Germany). 2014.
Heim O., From Unincorporated Territory: Craig Santos Perez’s resiting of postcoloniality in America’s Pacific Century, In: Pheng Cheah, Elleke Boehmer, Ankhi Mukherjee, Robert Young, Stephen Yiu-wai Chu, Elaine Yee Lin Ho, Siting Postcoloniality: Colloquium and Workshop, The University of Hong Kong. 2015.
Heim O., Oceanic Hong Kong?, In: Adam Grydehoj, Island Cities and Urban Archipelagos, Copenhagen. 2014.


Researcher : Ho EYL

Project Title:Anglophone Hong Kong Literature: Texts and Contexts
Investigator(s):Ho EYL
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2012


List of Research Outputs

Chan J.M.M. and Ho E.Y.L., Searching the Academy: A Chinese Opera as the Rule of Law and Legal Narrative, In: Marco Wan and Janny Leung, Law Text Culture. University of Wollongong, 2015, 18: 6-32.


Researcher : Hung RYY

Project Title:31st Annual Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Assoication Writing the Self as History: Chinese Memoirs and the Politics of Writing
Investigator(s):Hung RYY
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:02/2010




Researcher : Hutton CM

Project Title:Outstanding Researcher Award 2009-10
Investigator(s):Hutton CM
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Outstanding Researcher Award
Start Date:12/2010


Project Title:Transgender jurisprudence: self-classification and the law
Investigator(s):Hutton CM
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2013


Project Title:Law, Literature, Language
Investigator(s):Hutton CM, Wan MMH
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding for Strategic Research Theme
Start Date:11/2013


Project Title:Defining Fundamental Concepts: The Legal Personhood of Animals
Investigator(s):Hutton CM
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme
Start Date:06/2015


List of Research Outputs

Hutton C.M., Defining ordinary words for mundane objects: legal lexicography, ordinary language and the word vehicle, In: Máirtín Mac Aodha, Legal Lexicography: A Comparative Perspective. New York, Ashgate, 2014, 177-201.
Hutton C.M., Sociolinguistics and its metalinguistic paradox, The Sociolinguistics of Globalization: (De)centring and (de)standardization. 2015.
Hutton C.M., Soft’ and ’hard’ theories of identity, In: Monika Kopytowska, Yusuf Kalyango, Why Discourse Matters: Negotiating Identity in the Mediatized World. Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 2014, 233-251.


Researcher : Jaworski A

Project Title:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards 2014-15
Investigator(s):Jaworski A
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards
Start Date:09/2014


Project Title:Linguistic Landscape Workshop 7; Money can’t buy me LOVE: Language objects, art and consumer culture
Investigator(s):Jaworski A
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:05/2015


Project Title:King's/HKU Fellowship Awards 2015-16
Investigator(s):Jaworski A
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:King's/HKU Fellowship Awards
Start Date:06/2015


List of Research Outputs

Jaworski A. and Thurlow C., Tourism discourse, In: Karen Tracy, Cornelia Ilie and Todd Sandel , The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction. Malden, MA, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015, 1520-1525.
Jaworski A., Globalese: A new visual-linguistic register., Social Semiotics. 2015, 25: 2017-235.
Jaworski A., Word cities and language objects: ‘Love’ sculptures and signs as shifters. , Linguistic Landscape. 2015, 1: 75-94.
Järlehed J. and Jaworski A., Typographic landscaping: Creativity, ideology, movement. , Social Semiotics. 2015, 25: 117-125.


Researcher : Kang AM

List of Research Outputs

Kang A.M. and Chen K.H.Y., Saving the “(Hong) Kong Girl” stereotype in social media discourse, The Sociolinguistics of Globalization Conference. 2015.


Researcher : Kerr D.W.F.

Project Title:Research Output Prize
Investigator(s):Kerr DWF
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Research Output Prize (in Faculty)
Start Date:12/2009


Project Title:Orwell and Asia
Investigator(s):Kerr DWF
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


List of Research Outputs



Researcher : Kerr DWF

Project Title:Research Output Prize
Investigator(s):Kerr DWF
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Research Output Prize (in Faculty)
Start Date:12/2009


Project Title:Orwell and Asia
Investigator(s):Kerr DWF
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


List of Research Outputs

Kerr D.W.F., Approaching Conrad through Theory: "The Secret Sharer", In: J. H. Stape, New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014, 44-57.
Kerr D.W.F., Conrad and the Comic Turn, Victorian Literature and Culture . Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015, 43 no. 1: 149-168.
Kerr D.W.F., Going About: Conrad's Progress in A Personal Record, In: Gail Fincham, Jeremy Hawthorn, Jakob Lothe, Outposts of Progress: Joseph Conrad, Modernism and Post-Colonialism. Cape Town, University of Cape Town Press, 2015, 156-170.
Kerr D.W.F., Kipling in China: Empires of Noise, Victorian Transport (AVSA annual conference). University of Hong Kong, 2014.
Kerr D.W.F., The Secret Secret Sharer, 40th Annual International Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society UK. University of Kent, UK, 2014.
Kerr D.W.F., The Secret Secret Sharer, Conradian. Brill-Rodopi, 2014, 39 no 2: 19-30.


Researcher : Kuehn JC

Project Title:Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2009-10
Investigator(s):Kuehn JC
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Start Date:12/2010


Project Title:Victorian Hong Kong through the Traveller’s Lens
Investigator(s):Kuehn JC
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2013


Project Title:The German Influence on Victorian Fiction: Idea, Form, Genre
Investigator(s):Kuehn JC
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:New Directions in Travel Writing Studies
Investigator(s):Kuehn JC, Smethurst P
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:01/2015


List of Research Outputs

Kuehn J.C., 'Cosmopolitans, Tourists or Imperial Daughters? Constance Cumming and Isabella Bird in Hong Kong, 1878', Victorian Transport: Australasian Victorian Studies Association Annual Conference. 2014.
Kuehn J.C., 'Nineteenth-Century Exoticism’, In: The British Library., The British Library website.. London, The British Library, 2015.
Kuehn J.C., Colonial Cosmopolitanism: Albert Smith and Rudyard Kipling in Victorian Hong Kong‘, Distinguished Lecture Series, Department of English, The University of Macau. 2015.
Kuehn J.C., Edited Special Issue 'The Victorians and China', In: Julia Kuehn, Australasian Journal for Victorian Studies. 2015, 20.1.
Kuehn J.C., Realism in George Eliot and Fanny Lewald: ‘Separateness and Communication’, the Anxiety of Influence, or Differences without Contact?, In: Joanne Wilkes, The University of Auckland, NZ, Victorian Memory: Australasian Victorian Studies Association Annual Conference. 2015.
Kuehn J.C., Rev. of The Scientist as God: A Typological Study of a Literary Motif, 1818 to the Present, by Sven Wagner, Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen. 2014, 251:1: 190-192.
Kuehn J.C., Rev. of Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century: The Transatlantic Production of Fame and Gender, by Brenda R. Weber. , Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen. 2014, 251:1: 188-190.
Kuehn J.C., The Conundrum of Colonial Cosmopolitanism: Albert Smith’s Journey to Hong Kong in 1858, In: The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, The History of Hong Kong’ conference, . 2015.
Kuehn J.C., The Victorians and China: Travels with Ships, Ideologies and Literature’, Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies. 2015, 20.1: 1-6.


Researcher : Leung JHC

Project Title:Bilingualism and Legal Discourse in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Leung JHC
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2013
Completion Date:04/2015


Project Title:Forensic Linguistics/Language and the Law: Foundations and Future Avenues (FLFFA 2014); Language Rights: Problems and Prospects
Investigator(s):Leung JHC
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:12/2014
Completion Date:12/2014


Project Title:Implicit learning of Phonotactics in a Tone language
Investigator(s):Leung JHC
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:03/2015


List of Research Outputs

Leung J.H.C., Implicit Language Learning, English Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.. 2015.
Leung J.H.C., The Object of Fidelity in Translating Multilingual Legislation, Semiotica. 2014, 201: 223-238.
Leung J.H.C., The Rule of Law as Rhetoric, The Third International Symposium on Communication Studies of Rhetoric, Central China Normal University. 2014.
YEUNG W.L. and Leung J.H.C., An empirical study of lay comprehension of Chinese legal reference texts in Hong Kong, International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law. 2015, 22: 79-110.


Researcher : Lim LLS

Project Title:The ecology and evolution of Asian Englishes
Investigator(s):Lim LLS
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2012
Completion Date:04/2015


Project Title:A longitudinal study of Hong Kong kindergarten children’s English accents: Features and factors
Investigator(s):Lim LLS
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2014


List of Research Outputs

Lim L.L.S., Singlish, In: Sybesma, Rint (editor-in-chief), Wolfgang Behr, Yueguo Gu, Zev Handel, C.-T. James Huang and James Myers, The Encyclopaedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics (5 volumes). Brill, 2015.
Lim L.L.S., Urban linguistic diversity in-field and online: Nurturing collective, socially relevant and transformative research in education, Spring Symposium: Young Researchers in the Science of Learning. Sciences of Learning Strategic Research Theme (SoL-SRT), Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong. 2015.
Lim L.L.S., Yesterday’s founder population, today’s Englishes: The role of the Peranakans in the (continuing) evolution of Singapore English, In: Sarah Buschfeld, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch, The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and Beyond. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 2014, Varieties of English Around the World G49: 401-419.


Researcher : Lim SGL

Project Title:Modern Language Association Convention Teaching Chicano/a and Chinese American Ethnopoetics: Comparative Traditions
Investigator(s):Lim SGL
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:12/2000




Researcher : NARAYAN NG

List of Research Outputs

NARAYAN N.G., Policing the 'Unprofitable' in William Makepeace Thackeray: Victorian Power and Social Discipline, Perspectives on Power: Textual and Cinematic Representations. 2015.
NARAYAN N.G., The Value of Gentlemanly Virtue: Social Ambition and 'Embedded' Habits in Thackeray's Pendennis, Oxford English Graduate Conference, 'Value'. 2015.


Researcher : Noel D

Project Title:3rd Late Modern English Conference The entrenchment of the nominative and infinitive construction in Late Modern English
Investigator(s):Noel D
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2007


Project Title:Evidential constructions in English and Chinese: a bottom-up contrastive study
Investigator(s):Noel D
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011


Project Title:Constructional attrition in a (contrastive) diachronic construction grammar perspective
Investigator(s):Noel D
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:06/2014


Project Title:Grammatical hybridization and social conditions; Same formal pattern, different contact situation, different propagation: Evidential vs. deontic NCI constructions in Dutch (contrasted with English)
Investigator(s):Noel D
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:10/2014
Completion Date:10/2014


List of Research Outputs

DING Y. and Noel D., A corpus-based diachronic investigation of metaphorical containers of sadness in English, Cognitive Linguistic Studies. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2014, 1:2: 202-217.
Noel D. and van der Auwera J., Recent changes in the spread of verbal modal expressions in the Hong Kong and Singapore printed press, in contrast with the British and American ones: Exploring the potential of Factiva® for the diachronic investigation of World Englishes, BAAHE 2014 Annual Conference of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education: Digital Trends in (Applied) Linguistics, Literature and Translation Studies, University of Antwerp, Belgium, 28 November. 2014.
Noel D. and van der Auwera J., Recent quantitative changes in the use of modals and quasi-modals in the Hong Kong, British and American printed press: Exploring the potential of Factiva® for the diachronic investigation of World Englishes, In: Peter Collins, Grammatical Change in English World-Wide (=Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 67). Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2015, 437-464.
Noel D. and Colleman T., Same formal pattern, different contact situation, different propagation: Evidential vs. deontic NCI constructions in Dutch (contrasted with English), Grammatical hybridization and social conditions, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, 16-18 October. 2014.


Researcher : Ooi VCH

Project Title:4th 'English in Southeast Asia' Conference - Developing Multiliteracies in Southeast Asia How to Have your Disney and Eat it Too
Investigator(s):Ooi VCH
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/1999




Researcher : Pable AM

Project Title:An Annotated Historical Dictionary of Integrational Linguistics and Integrationism
Investigator(s):Pable AM
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011


Project Title:An Annotated Historical-Analytical Dictionary of Integrational Linguistics
Investigator(s):Pable AM
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2013
Completion Date:09/2014




Researcher : Richards PK

Project Title:An International Poetry Conference 2010 The Sacred and the Panegyric Roots of American Poetry
Investigator(s):Richards PK
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:05/2010


Project Title:Rita Dove and the History of the Chorus
Investigator(s):Richards PK
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2013
Completion Date:12/2014


Project Title:"A different fix on the stars": Aging in Lyric History
Investigator(s):Richards PK
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:05/2014


Project Title:SAMLA: South Atlantic Modern Language Association; Individual and Lyric History in "Audubon: A Vision"
Investigator(s):Richards PK
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2014
Completion Date:11/2014


List of Research Outputs

Richards P.K., Celebrating Hong Kong Writers, School of English, HKU. 2014.
Richards P.K., HKU Black Box Grant , Major Donation through DAAO. 2014.
Richards P.K., Individual and Lyric History in "Audubon: A Vision", In: Lev Butts, South Atlantic Modern Language Association. 2014.
Richards P.K., MFA Readings at the Black Box, Black Box Studio, School of English. 2015.
Richards P.K., Minding the Gap: Only Through Time, Black Box Studio, School of English, HKU. 2014.


Researcher : SHI H

List of Research Outputs

SHI H., Assassinating the Avant-Garde: Mu Shiying: China's Lost Modernist, A Review for Andrew David Field (Editor and Translator), Mu Shiying: China's Lost Modernist, Hong Kong University Press, 2014, 160 pages. Asian Cha, 2015.


Researcher : Slethaug GE

Project Title:International Congress for American Studies 2001 Red, White, (Black) and Blue The Blues and Acculturation in Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues
Investigator(s):Slethaug GE
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:01/2001




Researcher : Smethurst P

Project Title:Excursions: critical approaches to travel writing
Investigator(s):Smethurst P
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Low Budget High Impact Programme
Start Date:11/2001




Researcher : TAO KWY

List of Research Outputs

TAO K.W.Y., Understanding Transgender Marriage Case W v Registrar of Marriages through Ms. W's Voice, International Conference on Hong Kong as Method. 2014.
TAO K.W.Y., Understanding Transgender Marriage Case W v Registrar of Marriages through Ms. W's Voice, Law and Society in the 21th Century. 2015.


Researcher : TOMFOHRDE CS

List of Research Outputs

TOMFOHRDE C.S., Conversion and the aura of visual art: A Polynesian case study, Art, Religion, and Performance. British Association for the Study of Religions.. 2014.
TOMFOHRDE C.S., The Duff reconsidered: A prelude to iconoclasm, Missionaries, Materials, and the Making of the Modern World. 2014.
TOMFOHRDE C.S., “Missionaries, Materials, and the Making of the Modern World”: A Conference at the University of Cambridge, Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief. 2015, 11: 131-134.


Researcher : VANDERTOP CS

List of Research Outputs

VANDERTOP C.S., Architectures of the invisible hand: Joseph Conrad in colonial Singapore, Australian Modernist Studies Network. 2014.
VANDERTOP C.S., Out of the tangles and shadows of the jungle: Mapping Conrad's colonial city, Joseph Conrad Society Annual Conference. 2014.


Researcher : Valdez JR

Project Title:Victorian Modernities; “‘The Part of Mr. Pickwick’s Biographer’: Charles Dickens, George W. M. Reynolds, and the Construction of Authorship”
Investigator(s):Valdez JR
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2015


List of Research Outputs

Valdez J.R., How to Write Yiddish in English, or Israel Zangwill and Multilingualism in Children of the Ghetto, In: Stephanie Hawkins, Timothy Boswell, Studies in the Novel. Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014, 46.
Valdez J.R., Imitating the Inimitable Boz: George W. M. Reynolds, Plagiarism, and the Nineteenth-Century Commercial Press, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Research Seminar Series. 2015.


Researcher : XU D

List of Research Outputs

XU D., The Gift and the ethics of representing Aboriginality in Australian children's literature, School of English Seminar Series. 2015.
XU D., The ethics of the Gift: Representing Aboriginality in children's literature, International Symposium on Parallels between Australian Indigenous People and People of Chinese Mongolian Nationality. 2015.
XU D., Transformation, collaboration, and authorial control in the paratexts of indigenous children's literature, International Australian Studies Association Biennial Conference. 2014.


Researcher : YEUNG WL

List of Research Outputs

YEUNG W.L. and Leung J.H.C., An empirical study of lay comprehension of Chinese legal reference texts in Hong Kong, International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law. 2015, 22: 79-110.
YEUNG W.L., Lay participation of common law: Understanding the semiotic specificity of law through the eyes of unrepresented litigants, Law and Society in the 21st Century - The functions of law in a global society. 2015.
YEUNG W.L., Research integrity in a socio-legal study on unpresented litigants, Doing Research Integrity across the Arts and Humanities: A One-Day Workshop. 2015.


Researcher : Zayts OA

Project Title:Vicarious Narratives in Talk at Work in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Zayts OA
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2014


Project Title:4th International Conference Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice; Combining the macro, meso and micro in identity research in health care interactions
Investigator(s):Zayts OA
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2014
Completion Date:09/2014


List of Research Outputs

AU YEUNG K.Y.G., Zayts O.A., Sarangi S. and Chung B.H.Y., With others and for others: Accounting for decisions about genetic testing in the clinic, Hong Kong Journal of Paediatrics (new series) [Proceedings for Joint Annual Scientific Meeting 2014: HK Paediatric Society and HK Paediatric Nurses Association], 15 June 2014. 2014, 19(3): 197-198.
Au Yeung K.Y.G., Zayts O.A. and Chung B.H.Y., Accounting for decisions about genetic testing: The case of Chinese families in Hong Kong, 13th Annual COMET 2015, HKU, 25-27 June 2015.
Bridges S.M., Drew P., Zayts O.A., McGrath C.P.J., Yiu C.K.Y., Wong H.M. and Au T.K.F., Interpreter-mediated Dentistry, 54th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Association for Dental Research Australian & New Zealand Division. Australia, 2014.
Bridges S.M., Drew P., Zayts O.A., McGrath C.P.J., Yiu C.K.Y., Wong H.M. and Au T.K.F., Interpreter-mediated dentistry., Social Science and Medicine. 2015, 132: 197-207.
Bridges S.M., Wong H.M., Yiu C.K.Y., Zayts O.A., McGrath C.P.J. and Au T.K.F., Mediated interpreting in communicative Health Literacy – the dentist’s role in designating styles, The Second International Conference on Health Literacy & Health Promotion . 2014.
Schnurr S. and Zayts O.A., Narratives of identity struggles by ex-professional expatriate women in Hong Kong. , The 47th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL 2014), Warwick (UK). 2014.
Schnurr S..., van de Mieroop D... and Zayts O.A., Positioning oneself in relation to larger collectivities in expatriates' workplace narratives, Narrative Inquiry. 2014, 24 (2): 386-407.
YAU H.Y.A. and Zayts O.A., ‘Self’ and ‘other’: Constructing parental responsibility in the management of a genetic condition in telephone consultations , 13th Communication, Medicine and Ethics conference. 2015.
Zayts O.A. and Chung B.H.Y., "It's like throwing a dice". The management of extreme uncertainty and decision-making in the age of genome medicine: The case of pre-conception counselling, 13th Annual COMET 2015, HKU, 25-27 June 2015.
Zayts O.A. and Schnurr S., Combining the macro, meso and micro in identity research in health care interactions. Thematic symposium "On micro- /macro-, written-/spoken and other analytical binaries. Towards unpacking theories and methodologies for the study of 'identity' in health care research, The 4th Interdisciplinary Conference Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (ALAPP). 2014.
Zayts O.A., Faculty Research Award for Junior Tenure-Track Professoriate Staff, Faculty of Arts, the University of Hong Kong. 2015.
Zayts O.A. and Schnurr S., From ‘career woman’ to ‘home maker’, ‘mother’ and ‘tai tai’. Constructing and negotiating gendered identities by trailing spouses in Hong Kong , The Sociolinguistics of Globalization: (De)centring and de(standardization, 3-6 June, 2015.
Zayts O.A. and Chung B.H.Y., Interdisciplinary Collaboration between Medical Professionals and Sociolinguists, Knowledge Exchange (KE) Lunch Meeting, HKU. 2014.
Zayts O.A. and Chung B.H.Y., Interdisciplinary collaboration between medical professionals and sociolinguists., Invited lecture at the Knowledge Exchange (KE) Lunch Meetings organized by the KE Office, HKU, 22 Sep 2014. . 2014.
Zayts O.A., Member of the editorial board of the journal "East Asian Pragmatics", In: Xinren Chen, Dániel Z Kádár, East Asian Pragmatics journal. 2014.
Zayts O.A. and Schnurr S., More than ‘information provider’ and ‘counselor’. Constructing and negotiating roles and identities of nurses in genetic counseling sessions. , In: Allan Bell, Journal of Sociolinguistics. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2014, 18 (3): 345-369.
Zayts O.A., Researching multicultural genetic counselling in Hong Kong: Superdiversity in situ., Invited plenary talk at the Spring Symposium: Sciences of Learning, HKU, 28 Feb 2015 . 2015.


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