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Preet Hiradhar is Associate Professor of Teaching at the Department of English. She holds a doctorate in technology-mediated language learning in higher education contexts and she researches technology and digital discourses in linguistic, literary, and cultural texts. She is the co-author of Critical Reading and Writing in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2016), a key resource for linguistics courses in English and New Media Studies Programs across various universities in Europe and Asia. She has served as Academic Affiliate at the Department of Culture, Communication and Media at University College London (UCL) in the Institute of Education, UK in 2017 and has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark in 2018. She has worked on research projects through competitively funded grants from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Government and won awards for her teaching and learning initiatives at her university. In 2018, she won the competitive Teaching Excellence Award for her outstanding contribution to teaching. She also received territory-wide recognition with the UGC Teaching Excellence Award Nomination Certificate from the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong in 2019. She serves as academic advisor to professional bodies and higher education institutions in the territory as well as external reviewer on international journals and publications. Her latest book project explores ICT in English Language Education in South Asia.

• PhD (Sardar Patel U)

• Cert TEFL (i-to-i, UK)

• GNIIT (NIIT)

• BA, MA (South Gujarat)

• Visiting Scholor, Department of English, Lingnan University (2021-2023)

• Instructor in Academic and Creative Writing, Department of English (2019-2020)

• Teaching Fellow, Department of English, Yale university (2014-2019)

• Lecturer (MA program), Department of English, Yale University (2010-2012)

• Lecturer, Department of English, Lingnan Univeristy (2009-2012)
  

• Lecturer (associate degree program), College of International Education, Hong Kong Baptist University

• ENG2101 Introduction to Language
• CLB9020 Understanding Language in Film
• ENG3002 Introduction to Research Methods in English Studies
• ENG3006 Final Year Project Preparation
• ENG3009 Languaging: English and Creativity in Everyday Life

Books

• Hiradhar P. & Bhattacharya A. (2022). ICT in English Language Education - Bridging the Teaching-Learning Divide in South Asia, Singapore: Springer
• Goatly, A. & Hiradhar P. (2016). Critical Reading and Writing in the Digital Age, (2nd Edition), Oxford: Routledge

Journal articles and book chapters

• Hiradhar, P. & Groves, J. (2022). "More than you would expect: Gains in Employability in Student Partners in a Pedagogical Consultancy Partnership Program", Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change, 8(1).
• Groves, J. & Hiradhar, P. (2022). "More than you would expect : Development of Graduate Attributes in Student Partners in a Pedagogical Consultancy Partnership Program", Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change, 8(1).
• Bhattacharya A. & Hiradhar, P. (2022). "The translocated body: The emergence of YASF in colonial Bengal.", Extrapolation, 63(2), 127-148. https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2022.10
• Bhattacharya A. & Hiradhar, P. (2022). (Accepted, In Press) The contested city: Speculative fiction and metropolitan imagination in colonial Bengal, Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
• Bhattacharya A. & Hiradhar, P. (2022). (Accepted, In Press) The specular dream: Historical imaginary in speculative fiction of colonial Bengal, Journal of Commonwealth Literature.
• Groves, J., Hiradhar, P., Chan P., Berektova A., Vadnysheva P., Harrision R., & Dyussembayeva Z. (2021). "Faculty-student pedagogical partnership in the virtual classroom: Lessons from COVID-19, International Journal for Students as Partners, 5:2, 153-161, https://doi.org/10.15173/ijsap.v5i2.4520
• Bhattacharya, A. & Hiradhar, P. (2019). "The sentimental nightmare: The discourse of the scientific and the aesthetic in Rokeya S. Hossain's "Sultana's Dream"". The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2019.1604403

• Bhattacharya, A. & Hiradhar, P. (2018). "The Insectestimal Tall-tale: Historical Catachresis and Ethics in the science fiction of Premendra Mitra". The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54:2, 174-186, DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2017.1332676

• Bhattacharya, A. & Hiradhar P. (2017).  "Institutional Discourses, Technology-mediated Practices and Pedagogy: A Critical Perspective", English Paradigm in India: Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5332-0_18

• Hiradhar, P. (2015). "Task-based pedagogy in technology mediated writing". In Colpaert, J., Aerts, A., Oberhofer, M.& Gutierrez-colon Plana, M. (eds.) Task Design and CALL, Proceedings, Universitat Rovira i Virgili Antwerp: University of Antwerp pp. 21-27.7.

• Bhattacharya, A. & Hiradhar, P. (2014). “Own Maps/Imagined Terrain. The Emergence of Science Fiction in India”. Extrapolation, 55(3), pp. 277-297. DOI: 10.3828/extr.2014.16

• Hiradhar, P. (2013). “Enhancing ESL learners’ writing through technology”. Language, Literature, and Linguistics III, 68 (7), pp. 30-36. DOI: 10.7763/IPEDR. 2013.V68.7

• Hiradhar, P. (2011). “Evaluating attitudes towards a technology-based writing program”. ELT Quarterly, 13 (1-2), pp. 1-9.

• Hiradhar, P. (2010). “Exploring the motivational aspects of a technology-enabled language program design”. Motivation and beyond, Proceedings CALL 2010, Antwerp, Computer Assisted Language Learning Journal Committee, Antwerp, Belgium, pp. 103-104.

• Hiradhar, P. & Gray, J. (2008). From a social digital identity to an academic digital identity: Introducing ePortfolios in English language enhancement courses. Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology/La revue canadienne de l'apprentissage et de la technologie, 34 (3), pp. 27-38. DOI: 10.21432/t2q30j

• Hiradhar P. (2022).The Dreaming Subject: Early speculative fiction in colonial Bengal (with Bhattacharya A.), "Dreams" Themed Panel Sponsored by the International Committee 2022 Children's Literature Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2-4 June 2022.
• Hiradhar P. (2019). Cultural Representational Practices Among Online Media of South Asian Diasporas, International Conference on Communication and Media Studies: Media, Data and Society (ICCMS) 2019, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom. 10-11 August 2019.

• Hiradhar P. (2018). Social semiotics of online identities among South Asian diasporas, Social Science as Social Semiotics: Bridging Theories, Methods, and Practices, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia, 25-27 September 2018.

• Hiradhar P. (2018). Multimodal expressions of identities in websites of South Asian diasporas, 9ICOM: Multimodality – Moving the Theory Forward (9th International Conference on Multimodality), The Centre for Multimodal Communication, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, 15-17 August 2018.
• Hiradhar P. (2017). Visual representations of identities in diasporic webpages, 6th New Zealand Discourse Conference (NZDC) 2017, Multimodal Research Centre and Institute of Culture Discourse & Communication, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand, 06-09 December 2017.
• Hiradhar P. (2017). Blended learning for effective writing tasks: Pedagogy and Practice, 9th biennial conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW) 2017, Centre for the Development of Academic Skills (CeDAS), Royal Holloway, University of London, London, United Kingdom. 19-21 June 2017.
• Hiradhar P. (2016). Multimodal representations and meaning-making in homepages of diasporic websites, The European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ESFLC): Functional Linguistic and Social Semiotic Approaches to the Media, University of Salzburg, Austria, 13-15 July 2016.
  
• Hiradhar P. (2016). Integrating e-learning into English language enhancement: Designing quality content for effective learning, The 5th CELC Symposium: Strengthening Connectivities in ELT: Pedagogies, Disciplines, Cultures, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 25-27 May 2016.
• Hiradhar P. (2015). Task-based pedagogy in technology-mediated writing, Seventeenth International CALL Research Conference: Task Design and CALL, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, 6-8 July 2015. Best Paper – Selected Plenary.
• Hiradhar P. (2015). Evaluating SCORM-based E-learning for an English Language Course, The International Mobile Learning Festival 2015, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 23-25 May 2015.

• Hiradhar P. (2015). Employing Cooperative Learning for a Genre-Based Approach to English Language Enhancement, TESOL International Conference- TESOL in the Global Age: New Theories and Methodologies, Shanghai University, China. 14-16 May 2015.

• Teaching Excellence Award (TEA), 2017-18; Teaching and Learning Centre, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

• Teaching Excellence Team Award (Team Leader) - Certificate of Merit, 2016-17; Teaching and Learning Centre, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

• Significant Contribution to Outcomes-based Education (OBE) Award, 2016-17; Centre for Advancement of Outcomes-Based Education, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

• Significant Contribution to Outcomes-based Education (OBE) Award, 2015-16; Centre for Advancement of Outcomes-Based Education, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

• Outstanding Faculty Contribution to Outcomes-based Education (OBE) Award, 2014-15; Centre for Advancement of Outcomes-Based Education, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

• Digital representations of cultural identities in online spaces: A multimodal social semiotic study of South Asian diasporic websites, Principal Investigator, UGC Research Grants Council (RGC) Early Career Scheme (ECS) 2017/18, Hong Kong; Amount funded: HKD$300,000.00; Project Duration: Jan 2018- Dec 2019.

• Visual semiosis in online diasporic representations of South Asians in Hong Kong, Principal Investigator, Faculty Research Grants, Funded by Faculty of Arts, Lingnan University, Amount funded: HKD$50000; Project Duration: Apr 2017- Mar 2018.

• Integrating SCORM-based e-learning content into a Common English course- Phase-2, Principal Investigator, Teaching Development Grant, Funded by Teaching and Learning Centre, Amount funded: HK$100000; Project Duration: May 2016- August 2017.

• Mini Action Research Project for achieving course outcomes, Co-investigator and Consultant Trainer, Funded by UGC-EG EST Centre for Advancement of OBE, UGC/RGC Other, Amount funded HK$4000; Project Duration: December 2015- May 2016.

• Developing SCORM-based e-learning content for a Common English course – Phase-I, Principal Investigator, Teaching Development Grant, Funded by Teaching and Learning Centre, Amount funded: HK$303000; Project Duration: February 2014- August 2016.

• Action Research on Student Learning Outcomes: A qualitative approach to evaluating practices and processes for enhancement of teaching and learning on an English language course, Principal Investigator, Funded by UGC-EG EST Centre for Advancement of OBE, UGC/RGC Other, Amount funded: HK$330000; Project Duration: September 2014- May 2015.