Emily Lau Kui Ling is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English Language, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya.  Her core research domains include Discourse Studies and Multimodality with a particular attention to the representations of pathologized female appearance.  Currently, her teaching of language in literary texts has fanned the flame of her interest in Literature and Stylistics.  Alongside her academic engagements, she hopes to contribute to the preservation of mother tongues, focusing on the 'Foochow' dialect.  She welcomes research collaboration with scholars, policy makers, NGOs, Institutions and graduate/postgraduate hopefuls who would be keen to work on the aforementioned areas.