Moonyoung Hong completed her BA degree in English Language and Literature at Hanyang University and obtained her MPhil in Irish Writing and PhD in English at Trinity College Dublin. Her PhD was funded by the TCD Ussher Fellowship and an Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship. She held an Early Career Research residency at Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. Prior to joining HKU, she taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), City University of Hong Kong (CityU), and Masaryk University, Brno.

Moonyoung specializes in modern drama, Irish literature, and postcolonial literature and theory. She is author of Tom Murphy's Theatre of Everyday Space (Routledge, 2025) and co-editor of The Irish Pub: Invention and Re-Invention (Cork University Press, 2025). Her articles have appeared in Irish Studies Review, Comparative Drama, Études Irlandaises, and Review of Irish Studies in Europe (RISE). Her research interests include everyday life studies, space and place, contemporary theatre and performance, and cross-cultural and global literatures.

Professor Hanwool Choe received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Georgetown University in Washington D.C., U.S.A. in 2020. Before her Ph.D., she gained her M.A. in Language & Communication at Georgetown University. She completed her B.A. in English Linguistics, with a minor in Education, at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, South Korea, with the highest distinction, in 2012.

Professor Choe supervises both MPhil and PhD students. If your research interests align with her areas of expertise, please contact her via email with your CV and research proposal.

Interactional Sociolinguistics; Qualitative Discourse Analysis; Social Media; Family, and Food.

ENGL 1050 Research Methods in Sociolinguistics

ENGL 1056 Introduction to Language and Communication

ENGL 2103 Language and Social Media

ENGL 2188 Language and Food

ENGL 3040 Internship in English Studies

ENGL 3042 Extended Essays in English Studies

Anya Adair researches medieval English literature, as well as pre-modern English law and legal culture. Her focus is Old English law and literature, but her research extends also to Old Norse and Anglo-Latin, medieval language interaction, book history and manuscript studies, poetry and poetics, digital humanities, and the history of the English language.

Anya holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Melbourne and graduate degrees in English from Melbourne, Oxford and Yale. At Melbourne, Yale and HKU, she has taught courses in interdisciplinary law and literature, legal history, medieval and early modern English literature, creative writing, the history of the English language, palaeography and codicology, and digital humanities.

The historical scope of Anya’s present research covers the seventh to the sixteenth centuries. It aims to unite more closely the fields of medieval law and medieval literature, and to provide insight into the intellectual, emotional and social dimensions of legal and literary production across the period. Her interest in legal and literary culture takes her work into the history of emotion, historical linguistics, religious writing, poetry, poetics and rhetoric, as well as palaeography, codicology, and the history of law. In all of these dimensions, Anya’s research is driven by a fascination with the minutiae of language, and the potential of its smallest detail to solve the puzzles of the past.

Old and Middle English literature; medieval English literature; law and literature; pre-modern English legal history; book history; manuscript studies; digital humanities.

A funded MPhil place is offered for a suitable candidate researching. Visit here for details.

Anjuli I. Gunaratne grew up in Colombo, Sri Lanka and received her Ph.D. in English and the Interdisciplinary Humanities at Princeton University. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Hong Kong’s Society of Fellows in the Humanities (2018-2020) and at Brown University’s Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, where she was the Carol G. Lederer Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2018). Her work has appeared in PMLA (Publication of the Modern Language Association), the CLR James Journal, Research in African Literatures, and Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

Anjuli’s first book, Miraculous Corpse: Tragedy and the Underworlds of Anticolonialism is in press at Duke University Press and slated for publication in 2027. Miraculous Corpse tracks the emergence of a genre of anticolonial poetics that draws from the structures of tragic drama and thought to recover revolutionary figures, political ideas, communities, and ecologies lost to colonial expansion and occupation. The miraculous names, then, a tragically conceived process of poetic invention and historical recovery that is anticolonial in a minor key. As a whole, Anjuli’s research engages issues pertaining to the relationship between literary and architectural form, the narration of trauma, and the process of recovering and representing the past in literary works, particularly when the past is unwritten or purposefully disappeared.