Major Research Areas

The Department has an active research culture and strives to connect research with teaching. Staff members are active in international research communities and also aim to benefit local communities through knowledge transfer.

Linguistics and language studies

Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies
Communication and Media Studies
Corpus linguistics
Critical discourse analysis
Discourse analysis
Discourse and popular culture mediated by technologies
English phonetics and phonology
Health communication
History of linguistics
Language, Culture, and Society
Language and Ethnicity
Language and Gener
Language and Social Justice
Language and Diversity
Language and Identities
Language and/in Politics
Language and Race
Language ideologies
Linguistic landscapes
Metaphor studies
Second language pronunciation
Sociolinguistics and online identity
World Englishes

Literature

China-West relations
Cultural Cold War
Aesthetics and politics
American literature
American studies
Contemporary fiction, drama and poetry
Comparative history of the novel
Critical theories
Cross-cultural studies of literature
Digital Humanities
Global literatures in English
History of criticism
Holocaust representation
Literatures of the Asian Diaspora
Modernism
Poetry and politics
Postcolonial theory and fiction
Tragedy and discourse on tragedy
Transpacific literature
Twentieth-century US literature