Staff Profile

Academic and Professional Qualifications

• 1972   B. A. (Hons.) in English and Related Literatures, University of York, York, U.K.
  
  
• 1975   M.A. in English, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  
  
• 1978   Ph.D in English, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  
  

• 1993   M.Sc in Teaching English (Applied Linguistics), Aston University, Birmingham, U.K.
  
  
  

Areas of Academic Interest

• Literature in English
  
  
• Applied Linguistics
  
  
• English Language Teaching
  
  
• Creative Writing
  
  
• Comparative Literature

Publications

• 2000 Aspects of Metamorphosis: Fictional Representations of the Becoming Human. Amsterdam: Rodopi Editions.
  
  
• 1999 The impish drolleries of exotic knowledge: trilogies, triads and troilism in Robertson Davies. English Studies in Canada, (April/May1999).
  
  
• 1999 Eating babies is right and wrong or neither of the above: Jonathan Swift and Huang Biyun. Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese, Vol 2 (July 1999).
  
  
• 1998 (Co-editor) Language Analysis, Description and Pedagogy. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Press. [Contains essays by prominent linguists such as M.A.K. Halliday, Robert de Beaugrand, Michael Swan & others]
  
  
• 1998 The language of accounting textbooks: readability and terminology. In B. Asker et. al. (eds.) Language Analysis, Description and Pedagogy (142-151). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
  
  
• 1998 (Editor) Teaching Language and Culture: Building Hong Kong on Education. Hong Kong: Addison Wesley Longman. [Contains essays by prominent linguists such as M.A.K.Halliday, Ruqaya Hasan, Gunther Kress, Alastair Pennycock & others]
  
  
• 1998 Setting the Scene. In B. Asker (ed.) Teaching Language and Culture: Building Hong Kong on Education (1-8). Hong Kong: Addison Wesley Longman.
  
  
• 1998 Student reticence and oral testing. Communication Research Reports, 15 (2), 162-169.
  
  
• 1998 The Axiom of Maria. Libretto for musical piece by Paul Robinson. World premiere performance by the Hilliard Ensemble and choirs, Trinity College Chapel, University of Cambridge, 8^th August. Commissioned by the Cambridge Early Music Society and theHilliard Ensemble.
  
  
• 1997 The reception of Kung Fu fiction: problems of register, problems of culture. In C.C. Liu (Ed.) The Question of Reception: Martial Arts Fiction in English Translation (151-162). Hong Kong: Centre for Literature & Translation, Lingnan College.
  
  
• 1996 Practical Skills for Work and Study. Hong Kong: Witman Publishing.
  
  
• 1996 The Modern Bestiary: Animals in Fiction 1880-1945. Lewiston, New York: The Mellen Press.