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.