Brian King

Dr. Brian W. King is a critical sociolinguist who researches the discursive performance of identities and embodiments at the intersection of ethnicity, gender and sexuality. His work on these themes sits within sexuality education, healthcare communication, computer-mediated communication, and the social construction of space/place. Methodologically he draws on a number of traditions, including interactional sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, linguistic anthropology, and critical discourse studies. Brian leads the Communicating Sex Variation Research Cluster (CSV) in the Research and Impact Initiative on Communication in Healthcare (RIICH) an interdisciplinary, international collaboration housed in HKU's Faculty of Arts.

He is a member of the board of trustees of Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand (ITANZ), which strives to advocate dignity, diversity and choice for people born with intersex traits. Additionally, he is on the Editorial Board of Gender & Language journal and the Journal of Language and Sexuality, and is the Reviews Editor for the journal Language in Society. His teaching career has spanned more than 20 years across three continents and multiple sectors, with time spent teaching in Hong Kong, New Zealand, Korea, and Canada. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in recognition of attainment against the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education.

Education

• PhD Victoria University of Wellington (2008 — 2011)
• MA University of Leicester (2004 — 2006)
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) The University of Calgary (1989 — 1995)

Companies

• Assistant Professor The University of Hong Kong (2018)
• Assistant Professor City University of Hong Kong (2012 — 2018)
• Research Assistant Victoria University of Wellington (2011 — 2012)

Research Grants

External

• Language use and the intersex body: Communicating sex variations in multilingual Hong Kong. Hong Kong Research Grants Council General Research Fund. (PI, HKD$450,000, 2020-2023)

Internal

• Language use in academic research on intersex/DSD: A corpus-based study. Seed Fund for Basic Research for New Staff, University of Hong Kong. (PI, HKD 150,000)