Feifei Zhou joined the Department of English in January, 2016. She received her PhD in Linguistics and the History of Ideas from the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include theories of language and communication, sociolinguistics, social semiotics, and digital discourse. She has published on linguistic landscape studies and digitally-mediated communication in prestigious journals such as Social Semiotics, Social Media and Society, Discourse and Communication, and Language and Communication. Her research monograph Models of the Human in Twentieth-Century Linguistics: System, Order, Creativity was published by Springer in 2020. Currently she is working on a book project about writing practices in the digital age. She welcomes opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration with researchers of shared interests.