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Teachers
Prof. Christophe Coupé​
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Programme Director
Assistant Professor
Outstanding Teaching Award, 2021
Prof. Christophe Coupé received a PhD degree in cognitive science in 2003 from the University of Lyon 2. He then worked as a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), until joining HKU in 2018.
Prof. Javier Cha
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Deputy Director
Assistant Professor
Prof. Javier Cha is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of History. His expertise includes Korean Neo-Confucianism, medieval literary criticism, patronage, and data-assisted historical methods.
​Prof. Peter J Cobb
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Deputy Director
Assistant Professor
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Early Career Teaching Award, 2021
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Faculty of Education Early Career Teaching Award, 2021
Prof. Peter J Cobb is an assistant professor in the School of Humanities and a field archaeologist. Each summer, he helps lead excavations in Armenia together with the Armenian Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography.
​Prof. Anya Adair
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Assistant Professor
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Rosie Young 90 Medal for Outstanding Young Woman Scholar, 2022
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Early Career Teaching Award, 2020
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Outstanding Teaching Award (Team), 2019
Prof. Anya Adair researches medieval English literature, as well as pre-modern English law and legal culture. Her research explores Old and Middle English law and literature, medieval language interaction, book history and manuscript studies, poetry and poetics, the history of the English language and the digital humanities.
Dr. Jenny Kwok
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Research Assistant Professor
Visiting Fellow(With Scholarship), Cambridge Digital Humanities, 2024-25
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Dr. Jenny Kwok is a Research Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts, the Lab Coordinator of the Arts Tech Lab at the University of Hong Kong and the instructor of HUDT1001 and HUDT1002. Her research focuses on the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in computational literary studies, with a particular emphasis on sentiment analysis, narrative patterns, and Irish literature related to The Troubles.
Dr. Kal Ng
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Professional Practitioner
Dr. Kal Ng is a practitioner in Architectural Design, virtual reality research, film producing and scriptwriting.
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He is at present a lecturer of Intelligent Architecture and Virtual Reality at HKU and as programmer for the HDT Trajectory Workshops.
Dr. Wenjing Ni
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Course Coordinator of HUDT1002
Dr. Wenjing Ni received a PhD degree in linguistics in 2024 from the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests span areas such as psycholinguistics, artificial intelligence, natural language processing / computational linguistics, media study, digital humanities, and their interdisciplinary connections.
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