Other Funded Projects – HKU School of English

Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS)

Year	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Amount (HK$)
2021/22 (12 months)	Professor Julia Kuehn	Geopoetic Enquiries: Travel, Text and the Spaces of Writing	372,000
2021/22 (12 months)	Dr Olga Zayts	‘Talking Genetics’: Intersections of Language, Culture and Genetic Literacy in Intercultural Genetic Testing and Counselling Contexts	272,000
2020/21 (12 months)	Professor Janny Leung	Digital Speech, Public Discourse, and Criminality	400,000
2019/20 (12 months)	Professor Kendall Johnson	The Extraterritorial Print Adventures of Early American Missions to China: The Cultural Origin and Diplomatic Legacies of American Evangelism during the Opium Wars	471,700

Year	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Amount (HK$)
2019/20	Professor Kendall Johnson	Exodus and Exile: Migrants, Refugees, Asylum Seekers and the Problem of Slavery in the Pacific and Atlantic Worlds, 1750-1850 (Event Dates: Dec 10 – 11, 2020)	100,000
2018/19	Professor Adam Jaworski	Sociolinguistics Symposium 23 (SS23) (Completion Date: Jul 31, 2020)	125,000
2018/19	Professor Julia Kuehn	Coalition of English Departments in Asia (COEDA): Second Annual Postgraduate Conference (Completion Date: Nov 30, 2019)	100,000
2018/19	Dr Jessica Valdez	Nineteenth-Century Formations (Completion Date: Jan 31, 2020)	96,200
2017/18	Dr Otto Heim	The Space Between: A Symposium on Creativity, Performance, and Impact in Contemporary Island Societies (Completion Date: Jan 31, 2019)	100,000

Year		Principal Investigator	Project Title	Amount (HK$)
2017/18		Professor Adam Jaworski	‘Unsettling Language’: Sociolinguistics Symposium 23, 9-12 June 2019 (Completion Date: Jul 31, 2020)	116,550
2017/18		Professor Kendall Johnson	Rev. David Abeel’s Residences in Batavia and Singapore as Prelude to His Residence in Amoy (Xiamen) after the First Opium War and W.A.P. Martin’s Beijing Redux of Woodblock Printing in the Translation and Publication of Henry Wheaton’s Elements of International Law (Completion Date: Jun 30, 2019)	104,200