Preet Hiradhar is Associate Professor of Teaching at the Department of English. She holds a doctorate in technology-mediated language learning in higher education contexts and she researches technology and digital discourses in linguistic, literary, and cultural texts. She is the co-author of Critical Reading and Writing in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2016), a key resource for linguistics courses in English and New Media Studies Programs across various universities in Europe and Asia. She has served as Academic Affiliate at the Department of Culture, Communication and Media at University College London (UCL) in the Institute of Education, UK in 2017 and has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark in 2018. She has worked on research projects through competitively funded grants from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Government and won awards for her teaching and learning initiatives at her university. In 2018, she won the competitive Teaching Excellence Award for her outstanding contribution to teaching. She also received territory-wide recognition with the UGC Teaching Excellence Award Nomination Certificate from the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong in 2019. She serves as academic advisor to professional bodies and higher education institutions in the territory as well as external reviewer on international journals and publications. Her recent project investigates multimodal representations and cultural identities in online spaces and her latest book project explores ICT in English Language Education in South Asia.