English language and linguistics:
English linguistics; semantics and pragmatics; discourse analysis; sociolinguistics; world Englishes; English in Hong Kong and Asia ; critical linguistics; language and politics; language and the law; history of linguistics; orientalism and linguistics; literary linguistics.

Literary studies in English:
Renaissance literature and Shakespeare; romanticism; the English novel; modernism; postmodernism; postcolonial literatures; literary history; colonial discourse analysis; western images and ideas of China; feminist approaches to literature; American literature; Asian-American studies; contemporary British fiction; critical theory; cross-cultural studies; literature and film; travel writing; creative writing, drama.