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Postgraduate programme


The Department of English welcomes applications for both PhD and MPhil research degrees. Prospective students should refer to staff members’ areas of research interest when preparing their proposals (see below). Applications can be made through two channels: direct entry (PhD and MPhil; see our Registry webpage) and the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS; see webpage).
Note: pre-approval from a supervisor is NOT required for you to make an application. Please do not contact staff members directly unless you have a clear idea of your research direction and are certain that it aligns with the staff member's research interests and publications.




Areas of Research Interest of ENG Faculty
HO Nga Man Janet, Head & Associate Professor
BA, PhD (PolyU); Cambridge Cert.TEFL

Metaphor studies; Discourse analysis; Corpus linguistics; English language teaching.

SEWELL Andrew John, Associate Professor
BSocSc (Birmingham); RSA CertTEFL (Angloschool London); MA (Leicester); PhD (LU)

Applied linguistics; Sociolinguistics; World Englishes; English as a lingua franca; English phonetics and phonology.

HIRADHAR, Preet Pankaj, Associate Professor of Teaching
BA, MA (South Gujarat); GNIIT (NIIT); CertTEFL (i-to-i, UK); PhD (Sardar Patel U)

Digital practices; Language and new media; Multimodality in digital environments; E-learning and ICT in English Language education; Technology- mediated literary/linguistic/sociocultural discourses.

ZHOU Feifei , Assistant Professor
BA (SISU); MA (East China Normal); PhD (HKU)

History of linguistics; Health discourses; Linguistic landscapes.

STEVIC Aleksandar, Assistant Professor
BA (Belgrade); MA Belgrade); MA (Yale), MPhil (Yale), PhD (Yale)

Comparative history of the novel; Tragedy; Aesthetics and politics; History of criticism, Holocaust representation.