Jerry Choi Yik Hin (English Language and Literature & English Language Teaching, Year 4) has won Dr. Daniel C.W. Tse Sports Award (2015-2016) in recognition of his excellence in woodball.
Category: announcements
Announcement: Ruth Hung Received the Faculty/School Performance Award for Young Researcher
Dr Ruth YY Hung (洪如蕊) has been given the Faculty/School Performance Award for Young Researcher by Professor Franklin Luk, Vice-President (Academic) on 29 April 2016. (April 2016)
Announcement: Six ENG students presented their Hon Pro research at the Community College of City University
On Thursday 21 April 2016, six students from the Department of English presented their Honours Project research at the Community College of City University. The presentation was part of a two-day annual student conference held on the CityU campus, organised by Derrick Stone. Chan Man Kwan Ashley Hui Hon Man Herman Kwok Wai Yin Olivia…
Announcement: Abel Han Song won the TSMC Literary Award
Abel Han Song (English Language and Literature, Year 4) won the TSMC Literature Award 2015. As a biennial award for Sinophone novella writing, this award attracts new comers in Sinophone literature from around the world. According to the January 2016 issue of Ink Literary Monthly 《印刻文學生活誌》, the awarded novella, The Statues, “keeps a cold eye…
Announcement: Zabrina Lo awarded CY Tung Scholarship to join Spring 2016 voyage of Semester at Sea
Pictured: Zabrina Lo (right) with Jason S Polley, who recommended Zabrina for the scholarship Zabrina Lo (English Language and Literature, Year 3), co-editor of Department of English’s Edge: HKBU Creative Journal and the First Prize Winner of the English Poetry Contest 2015, has been awarded the CY Tung Scholarship to spend a semester on the…
Alumni News: Viggo Cheng
Viggo Cheng (鄭浩輝), BA, English (Class of 2012)/MA, Language Studies (Class of 2014) has been awarded a postgraduate student assistantship to pursue PhD studies in Sociolinguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Renewable for up to five years, the assistantship (covering tuition and health insurance) will allow Viggo to pursue research in his areas of…
“The Rainbow Award for Honours Project on Social Justice” by Lian-Hee Wee
Source: Umbrella Creation (via.) “I repeat , I’m only representing the donors who called themselves ‘the anonymous teachers from HK’. And no, the donors do not represent HKBU or the English department. The gesture signals disgust at corporations that forget their social responsibilities. The prize may be small but it is intended as a reminder that…
Announcement: Kenneth Kong’s Professional Discourse Published
Dr Kenneth Kong has recently published his monograph, Professional Discourse, with Cambridge University Press (2014). Using a wide range of professional genres (such as research papers, business reports, performance commentaries, guidebooks and legal documents) Professional Discourse focuses on the discourse of professional writing, employing analytic paradigms from systemic-functional linguistics, pragmatics, text analysis, sociology and anthropological…
Announcement: James Au Awarded the Monbukagakusho Scholarship
James AU Kin Pong (MALCS, Class of 2014) has been awarded the prestigious Monbukagakusho Scholarship (MEXT) by the Japanese government as administered by its Hong Kong consulate. A highly competitive award requiring three rounds of interviews, the MEXT scholarship funds an entire course of PhD study at an institution of higher learning in Japan, pending…
Announcement: Ruth Hung Appointed Advisory Editor of boundary 2
Dr Ruth YY Hung (洪如蕊) has been appointed advisory editor of the boundary2 editorial collective based at the University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, United States). A member of the collective since 2010, Dr Hung began her work with the journal as an assistant editor, bringing increased emphasis within her areas of expertise—including critical philology, global spectacle,…
Department of English, Hong Kong Baptist University 