About Us

Professor Derek Collins
Dean
Professor Collins is a highly accomplished scholar specializing in archaic Greek poetry, Latin Literature and history of the classical tradition, religion and magic. He has extensive administrative and leadership experience as chairman or member of university committees and advisory boards and also at the faculty level.

Tel: 3917 2730
Email: dcollins@hku.hk

Professor John Carroll
Associate Dean (Global)
Professor Carroll assists the Dean in enhancing the Faculty’s links with members of the University community and the community at large including alumni, donors and members of the public. He provides leadership in developing the Faculty’s outreach profile, and in coordinating knowledge exchange activities. He teaches and publishes on modern Chinese history, Hong Kong history, colonial and postcolonial history, and museums and historical memory.

Tel: 3917 2866
Email: jcarroll@hku.hk

Professor Adam Jaworski
Associate Dean (Research)
Professor Jaworski assists the Dean in setting the direction and policy for research at the Faculty, and in developing the Faculty’s research profile and agenda. He also oversees research postgraduate programmes (MPhil and PhD) in the Faculty and chairs the Board of Examiners for Higher Degrees by Research. He has published widely in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, multimodality, language and globalization, linguistic landscapes, and language and art.

Tel: 3917 7274
Email: jaworski@hku.hk

Dr. Janny Leung
Associate Dean (Teaching & Learning)
Dr. Leung is responsible for the Faculty’s undergraduate curriculum reform, teaching and learning, and quality assurance of undergraduate curricula. She also directs the double degree programme of BA&LLB. Her current research and teaching interest lies in the interdisciplinary area of language and law, with a particular focus on challenges, ideologies and paradoxes in multilingual legal practice.

Tel: 3917 7932
Email: hiuchi@hku.hk

Dr. Wai Ting Siok
Associate Dean (Postgraduate)
Dr. Siok oversees taught postgraduate programmes ( MA, MBuddhStud and MFA) in the Faculty.  She chairs the Higher Arts Degrees Committee and Boards of Examiners for Higher Degrees by Coursework.  Her own research focuses on bilingualism, language development and language neuroscience. Her ongoing research is aimed at determining the neural mechanisms that underlie reading in normal and dyslexic children.

Tel: 3917 2771
Email: siok@hku.hk