School of English
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EVENTS
[16 Jul 2025
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[19 Mar 2026
Professor Matthew Reynolds - Public Lecture: Translalia: A possible Future for Translation with GenAI
THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
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Venue: HKU Black Box, Room 54, LG/F, Centennial Campus, HKU](https://english.hku.hk/event/572/Professor_Matthew_Reynolds_-_Public_Lecture:_Translalia:_A_possible_Future_for_Translation_with_GenAI)
[20 Mar 2026
Professor Matthew Reynolds - Workshop: Constraints as a Route to Creativity with GenAI (and In General)
THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
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Venue: Seminar Room, Room 7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU](https://english.hku.hk/event/573/Professor_Matthew_Reynolds_-Workshop:_Constraints_as_a_Route_to_Creativity_with_GenAI(and_In_General))
[25 Mar 2026
Dream Big, Plan Smart Series – Are YOU the right candidate?
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Venue: HKU Black Box, Room 54, LG/F, Centennial Campus, HKU](https://english.hku.hk/event/590/Dream_Big,Plan_Smart_Series–_Are_YOU_the_right_candidate)
[26 Mar 2026
Ben Moore
Suspended Circulation and the Double Life of Things in Dickens: The Pawnbroker's Shop and the Debtor's Prison\
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Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Venue: Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong](https://english.hku.hk/event/591/Suspended_Circulation_and_the_Double_Life_of_Things_in_Dickens:_The_Pawnbroker's_Shop_and_the_Debtor's_Prison)
[27 Mar 2026
Sheung-King & JeeMin Kim (Spring 2026)
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Venue: HKU Black Box, Room 54, LG/F, Centennial Campus, HKU](https://english.hku.hk/event/584/Sheung-King_&JeeMin_Kim(Spring_2026))
NEWS
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
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FEATURED RESEARCH
[Monograph
Professor Christopher Hutton
The People That Never Were: Linguistic Scholarship and the Invention of the Aryans
Hutton, C.M. (2025). The People that Never Were: Linguistic Scholarship and the Invention of the Aryans. Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-people-that-never-were-9780190212988?cc=hk&lang=en&](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-people-that-never-were-9780190212988?cc=hk&lang=en&)
[Journal Article
Professor Daniel Weston
The topicalization of culture in Cambridge undergraduate admissions interviews
Weston, D. (2025). The topicalization of culture in Cambridge undergraduate admissions interviews. Multilingua. https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2024-0183](https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/multi-2024-0183/html)
[Monograph
Professor Moonyoung Hong
Tom Murphy’s Theatre of Everyday Space
Hong, M. (2025). Tom Murphy’s Theatre of Everyday Space. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003489023](https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003489023/tom-murphy-theatre-everyday-space-moonyoung-hong)
[Journal Article
Professor Olga Zayts & Dr David Edmonds
A scoping review to map the research on the mental health of students and graduates during their university-to-work transitions
Edmonds, D. M., Zayts-Spence, O., Fortune, Z., Chan, A., & Chou, J. S. G. (2024). A scoping review to map the research on the mental health of students and graduates during their university-to-work transitions. BMJ open, 14(3), e076729. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076729](https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/3/e076729)
[Journal Article
Dr Jasper Wu
Languaging territorial assemblage: regional integration through language policy practices in southern China
Wu, J. Z. Z. (2024). Languaging territorial assemblage: regional integration through language policy practices in southern China. Language Sciences, 104, 101633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2024.101633](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0388000124000226)
[Journal Article
Professor Hanwool Choe
The presentation of self via everyday vlogging: Analyzing everyday vlogs of Korean expatriates.
Discourse, Context & Media 59. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100784.](https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/258/Dr_Hanwool_Choe#publications)
[Journal Article
Professor Tong King Lee
Illusions of textuality: The semiotics of literary memes in contemporary media.
Literature Compass 21 (4–6)(2024): 1–17. doi: 10.1111/lic3.12759](https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/292/Professor_Tong_King_Lee#publications)
[Journal Article
Professor Olga Zayts & Dr David Edmonds
“I’m not an anxious person”: end-of-life care workers constructing positive psychological states
Edmonds, D. M., & Zayts-Spence, O. (2024). “I’m not an anxious person”: end-of-life care workers constructing positive psychological states. BMC psychology, 12(1), 432. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-024-01885-5](https://bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40359-024-01885-5)