Biography

Ken Hyland is an Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia. He was previously a professor at University College London, the UEA and the university of Hong Kong. He is best known for his research into writing and academic discourse and has published over 300 articles and 29 books on these topics with 93,000 citations on Google Scholar. According to the Stanford University/Elsevier analysis of the Scopus database, he has been the most influential scholar in language and linguistics for the past three years (2022, 2023 and 2024). A collection of his work, The Essential Hyland, was published in 2018 by Bloomsbury. He is the Editor of two book series with Routledge and Bloomsbury, is a visiting professor at Jilin University and a Foundation Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities. He was founding co-editor of the Journal of English for Academic Purposes and co-editor of Applied Linguistics.
After graduating with a degree in Sociology from the University of Warwick, Ken taught English in the Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Hong Kong, gaining an MA and a PhD along the way. After nine years in Hong Kong he was offered a professorship at the University of London, where he directed the Centre for Academic and Professional Literacies at the Institute of Education for six years. He returned to Hong Kong in 2009 to head CAES for 8 years then moved to the University of East Anglia in the UK. Ken formally retired in 2017 and is now a Visiting Professor at the University of East Anglia and Jilin University, China.

Selected Publications:

   Hyland, K. (2000). Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in Academic Writing. Longman.
   Hyland, K. (2005). Metadiscourse: Exploring Interaction in Writing. Continuum.
   Hyland, K. (2012). Disciplinary Identities: Individuality and Community in Academic Discourse. Cambridge University Press.
   Hyland, K. (2011). Continuum companion to discourse analysis. Continuum Companion to Discourse Analysis, 1-448.
   Hyland, K. (2023). Exploring Expertise in L2 Writing Instruction. In A. Hirvela, & D. Belcher (Eds.), Exploring Expertise in L2 Writing Instruction: Perspectives and Research. Routledge.