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

• Cultural criticism and theory
• Digital cultural studies
• Ethnic minorities, race and diasporic identities
• Film and media studies
• Gender and sexuality
• Migration, mobility and labor
• Performance studies
• Postcolonial studies
• Social and cultural space

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

Visual Studies:

• Art and cultural exchange
• Art historiography
• Asian cinema and the Cultural Cold War
• Cultural and creative industries in China
• East Asian cinemas
• Film industry and policy
• Global contemporary art
• History and culture of collecting and curating
• History of Chinese art
• History of dress and textiles
• Hong Kong art
• Hong Kong film history
• International film festivals
• Korean cinema and popular culture
• Media industry
• Museum studies
• New media
• Performance art history and theory
• Postwar American art
• Transnational film cultures in East and Southeast Asia
• World’s fairs

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.