(a) Linguistics / Language Studies

Bilingualism; Contrastive Linguistics; Intercultural Communication; Gender and Language; Language Acquisition and Language Learning; Phonetics and Phonology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax; Text/Discourse Analysis; World Englishes; Applied Linguistics; Professional Communication; Multimodal Communication; Hong Kong English

(b) Literary Studies

Twenty-First Century and Contemporary Literature; Chinese Western Comparative Literature; Gender and Literature; Identity & Diaspora in Literature; Literature and Film; New Literatures in English; Hong Kong Literature; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Modernist Literature; Victorian Literature: Contemporary and Modern Drama; Postcolonial Studies

Chinese-Western Comparative Literature; Gender and Literature; Identity and Diaspora in Literature; Literature and Film; New Literatures in English; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Renaissance Literature; Romantic Literature; Shakespeare Studies; Twentieth-Century Literature; Victorian Literature; Women in Literature; Modern Drama; Postcolonial Studies; Modern British and American Literature; Post-modern Literature and Culture