Dr. Andrea Tang

English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Tutor/OCSa Co-Convenor/NAA Introduction to Creative Writing: Short Stories and Poetry Module Convenor

Centre for English Language Education

• PhD in English Language/Linguistics
• MA in Modern English Language
• BA(Hons) in English Language with Creative Writing
• Trinity Cert TESOL
• Cambridge CELT-Primary
• Cambridge TKT: Young Learners (Band 4 grade)
• TEFL-Young Learners Certificate
• TEFL in China Certificate

As well as teaching EAP on the RWAC, ESAC, OCSa, and OCSb modules, Andrea is also currently acting as the OCSa Co-Convenor and Module Convenor for the NAA Introduction to Creative Writing: Short Stories and Poetry modules. She joined UNNC CELE in September 2023, and has taught EAP on Summer Pre-Sessional courses in Edinburgh since 2021. She has also previously taught Academic English and English as a Foreign Language at schools and universities in the U.K., Austria and China. Her academic qualifications include: BA(Hons), MA and PhD degrees in English Language and Linguistics from the University of Huddersfield; she graduated in 2016 with her doctorate. She is a British Chinese born in Malaysia and a published writer with poetry, short stories and micro-fiction appearing in writing competition anthology books. She is also a holder of a Third Dan Black Belt in the Korean martial art of Tang Soo Do.

EAP modules:

• RWAC (Reading and Writing in Academic Contexts)
• OCS (Oral Communication Skills)
• ESAC (English for Specific Academic Contexts)

NAA modules:

• Introduction to Creative Writing: Short Stories
• Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry

Presented CPD sessions on 'Silence in the Classroom' and 'Autism and Neurodiversity'.

Advance HE Fellow, BALEAP TEAP Associate Fellow.

PhD Thesis: ‘Narration and Speech and Thought Presentation in Comics’, available on the University of Huddersfield Repository: http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/27960/

Poetry, short story, and micro-fiction publications can be found in the following writing competition anthologies:

• 'Sharp as Lemons: Poetry and Flash Fiction'
• 'Telescoping Time'
• 'Recognition: 21 Stories to Keep You Awake'
• 'Misfit Mirror: An Anthology of Poetry & Flash Fiction' from Earlyworks Press,
• 'The Grist Anthology of New Writing' from Grist Books
• 'Discovering a Comet and more micro-fiction' from Leaf Books

• University of Huddersfield's annual Postgraduate English Conference from 2009 to 2014
• PALA (Poetics and Linguistics Association) 2013 Conference at Heidelberg University, Germany
• Upcoming: BALEAP PIM Edinburgh 2025 in November 2025