Teaching
Awards/Honor
University of Hong Kong School of English Honorary Associate Professor
University of Hong Kong Faculty of Arts Teaching Excellence Award
University of Michigan PFF Teaching Fellow
University of Michigan Barbour Scholar
Linguistic Society of America Institute Fellow
Recent Pedagogy Workshops/Lectures
2025 “Mindfulness Workshop: React vs Response”. AsiaTEFL 2025 Conference, the Education University of Hong Kong.
2024 "Mindfulness: Resilience and Mental Well-Being for Grad Students" Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan.
2023 “Teaching online reasoning and critical thinking in the infodemic era" Public lecture, Department of English Language Education, The Education University of Hong Kong.
2022 “Mindfulness for wellbeing and English language teaching: an exploration” Public lecture, Department of English Language Education, The Education University of Hong Kong.
2021 "How can mindfulness improve teacher wellbeing" Keynote, the Macao Association for the Advancement of English Language Teaching Conference.
2021 "Our beliefs about the English languages, and why do they matter?" Public lecture Department of English Language Education, The Education University of Hong Kong.
Postgraduate Supervision
Leslie Hui Shan Li. Navigating Trajectories and Lived Experiences: A Duoethnographic Study of Chinese Doctoral Students at Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau. Ph.D. Macau U. 2025. Sole supervisor.
Aaron Anfinson. Projections of statehood : the disciplining of transnationalism and the attempted (self)legitimisation of the so-called Islamic State. Ph.D. HKU. 2018. Co-supervisor.
Bosco Sui Sum Li. Rapport Management and Intercultural Communication: Interacting in Hong Kong Workplace Settings. M.Phil. HKU. 2015. Sole supervisor.
Genevieve Leung. Hoisan-wa Reclaimed: Chinese American Language Maintenance and Language Ideology in Contemporary Sociolinguistic Perspective. Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania. 2012. Dissertation Committee member.
Chun Nam Mak. Language and Communication: A Sociolinguistic Study of Newcomers’ Socialization into the Workplace. M.Phil. HKU. 2009. Sole supervisor.
HKU theses can be accessed at HKU Hub.