About me

My name is Mian Hu (胡勉). I am a PhD candidate under the supervision of Dr. Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini and Dr. Anna Mendoza at the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong.

I received an MA in TESOL from King’s College London in 2016, and a BA in International Politics from Beijing International Studies University in 2014. I was an EAP lecturer at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (2017 - 2021) and Suzhou Global Institute (2016 - 2017).

My current research focuses on the following topics:

• Critical applied linguistics
• English for Academic Purposes
• Language teacher identity
• Language policy
• Ethnographic studies
• Sociolinguistics

You can reach me via email: mianhu [at] connect.hku.hk

Research

Peer-reviewed journal papers

• Hu, M., Mirhosseini, S. A.*, & Mendoza, A. (2024). Only a cog in a machine?: Reappraising institutionalized EAP teacher identities in a transnational context. Journal of English for Academic Purposes. 71, 101427.

• Collett, D., Evans, S.*, & Hu, M. (2022). Exploring PG students’ Engagement in Peer Review - Design and Implementation of Peer Review Training on a PSE Programme. International Journal of EAP. 2022.

Peer-reviewed conference proceeding

• Hu, M.*, & Collett, D. (2020). Students’ Perceived Engagement in Peer Review in a Transnational University Context: An Action Research. Harmony in Diversity: ELT in Transcultural Society, 161.

Conference presentations

• Hu, M. (2024). An ethnographic study of TNHE policies and language teacher identity entanglements. The Eighth Worldwide Forum for Comparative Education & International Conference on Education Transformation and Human Development. Beijing, China.

• Mirhosseini, S. A., & Hu, M. (2024). Ideologies of Chineseness and Englishlization in university EMI policies in China. BAAL 2024 Conference. Essex, UK.

• Hu, M., & Mirhosseini, S. A. (2024). More than a cog: A critical perspective towards EAP teacher identity construction. Sociolinguistics Symposium 25. Perth, Australia.

• Hu, M., Mirhosseini, S. A. & Mendoza, A. (2024). The institutionalized identities of EAP teachers in a Chinese TNHE-EMI context: A critical inquiry. AAAL 2024 Conference. Houston, USA.

• Hu, M., & Mendoza, A. (2023). Negotiating power and meaning in an EAP classroom: A positioning theory perspective. AAAL 2023 Conference, Portland, USA.

• Hu, M. (2022). Exploring Academic Writing Teacher Researcher Identity in a Chinese Transnational Educational Context. AAAL 2022 Conference, Pittsburgh, USA.

• Collett, D., Evans, S., & Hu, M. (2021). Exploring postgraduate students’ ongoing engagement with peer review. CEAPA-BALEAP International Conference, Suzhou, China.

• Hu, M., Collett, D., & Evans, S. (2020). Exploring peer review in writing classroom: From teacher directed to author directed. The 18th AsiaTEFL International Conference, Goyang, Korea.

• Hu, M., & Collett, D. (2020). Students’ perceived engagement in peer review in a transnational university context: an action research. The 40th Thailand TESOL-PAC International Conference, Bangkok, Thailand.

Reviewing

Journals

• Journal of Language, Identity & Education
• TESOL Journal
• Language Teaching Research

Conference abstracts

• 2025 Annual Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics