Richard Andrews

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Richard Andrews’ previous book for Springer is Polyrhythmicity in Language, Music and Society: complex time relations in the arts, humanities and social sciences (2021) in the ‘Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education’ series, edited by Aaron Koh and Victoria Carrington.

Richard worked in Hong Kong in the 1980s as Head of English, Drama and English-as-a-Second Language in an international school. Since then he has travelled extensively in the USA, Europe, the Middle East, India, SE Asia, mainland China, Korea, Taiwan and Japan. He is author of several books for Routledge, including Argumentation in Higher Education (2009), Re-framing Literacy (2010), A Theory of Contemporary Rhetoric (2014), A Prosody of Free Verse (2016) and Multimodality, Poetry and Poetics (2018). He was winner of the Edwin Hopkins award (National Council for Teachers of English) for an article on democracy and argument in Chicago in 1996, and his 2016 and 2018 books for Routledge were given the highest rating (4*) by external assessors in the fields of English Language/Literature and Education (as a Social Science) in the build-up to the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (2021). He has also published with Sage. He is co-series editor for Cambridge University Press of its Cambridge School Shakespeare series, now published in China. He is now Emeritus Professor in Language Education at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

The author has recently been re-appointed to the Chinese University of Hong Kong as external adviser to its English Language Teaching Unit. He has published three books of poems: A Sense of Place (2009), Falling Uphill (2021) and Birdsong in the Subway: Poems from China and Japan (2025).