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Current Research Areas in Arts

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Chinese

  • Chinese language, linguistics and stylistics
  • Classical Chinese literature
  • Comparative literature
  • Creative writing and media writing
  • Literary theory
  • Literature and cinema
  • Modern and contemporary literature in Chinese
    (from Greater China Region)

 

Cultural Studies

  • Arts, literature & research-creation
  • Capitalism, class & labour
  • Creative industries
  • Digital cultures
  • Food, environment & sustainability
  • Gender and sexualities
  • Global China
  • Hong Kong
  • Inter-Asia
  • Media & popular cultures
  • Migration, mobilities & ethnicities
  • Subjectivities & identities
  • Urban commons
  • Youth cultures

 

English

  • Linguistics
    • Corpus linguistics
    • Critical discourse analysis
    • Discourse analysis
    • Discourses and popular culture mediated by technologies
    • English phonetics and phonology
    • Health communication
    • History of linguistics
    • Language and new media
    • Language ideologies
    • Linguistic landscapes         
    • Metaphor studies
    • Second language pronunciation
    • Sociolinguistics and online identity
    • World Englishes

 

  • Literature
    • Aesthetics and politics
    • American literature
    • American studies
    • Contemporary fiction, drama and poetry
    • Comparative history of the novel
    • Critical theories
    • Cross-cultural studies of literature
    • Global literatures in English
    • History of criticism
    • Holocaust representation
    • Literatures of the Asian diaspora
    • Poetry and politics
    • Postcolonial theory and fiction
    • Tragedy and discourse on tragedy
    • Transpacific literature
    • Twentieth-century US literature

 

History

  • Anglo-American history
  • Atlantic history
  • British imperial history
  • Early Chinese history
  • Economic history
  • Environmental history
  • Historical geography
  • History of architecture
  • History of capitalism
  • History of Intra-Asian interactions
  • History of technology
  • Hong Kong history
  • Media history
  • Middle-period Chinese history
  • Modern Chinese history
  • Modern European history
  • The United States in the world
  • Urban history

 

Philosophy

  • Aesthetics
  • Applied ethics
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Confucianism
  • Daoism
  • Epistemology
  • Ethics
  • Future of humanity
  • Metaphysics
  • Personal identity
  • Philosophical logic
  • Philosophy of language
  • Philosophy of literature
  • Philosophy of mind
  • Philosophy of psychology
  • Philosophy of science
  • Political Philosophy
  • Well-being

 

Translation

  • Adaptation studies
  • Asian Translation traditions
  • Comparative translation studies
  • Interpreting
  • Literary translation
  • Theatre and translation
  • Translation and genre studies
  • Translation and popular culture
  • Translation and the media
  • Translation history
  • Translation theory and criticism

 

Film and Visual Arts:

  • Art history and historiography
  • Creative and media industries in East Asia
  • Digital art
  • Film industry and policy
  • Global contemporary and performance art
  • History of collecting and curating
  • History of Chinese art
  • Hong Kong art
  • Hong Kong and Chinese cinema
  • International film festivals
  • Korean cinema and popular culture
  • Media industry
  • Museum studies
  • Postwar American art
  • Transnational film cultures in East and Southeast Asia

 

For research interests of individual staff members, please refer to the website of individual departments which can be accessed via https://www.ln.edu.hk/faculties-and-units/faculties-and-departments.