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Biography
PhD (Sheffield); MA Literary Linguistics (Nottingham); BA English (Nottingham)
As a literary linguist, my research sits at the interface between English literature and English language in the areas of stylistics and cognitive poetics. I have a particular expertise in the cognitive poetics of emotion, cognitive reception, representations of consciousness and mind, and worlds theories in dystopia. My most recent research focuses on the experience of reading feminist dystopian fiction, and the development - more broadly - of contemporary feminist stylistics.
I also specialise in distance and online learning and am the co-author of Digital Teaching for Linguistics (Routledge) which provides both an introduction to digital pedagogy and a discussion of technologically-driven teaching practices that can be applied to any field of study.
Expertise Summary
Areas of expertise - dystopian literature, contemporary fiction, cognitive poetics, stylistics, feminist stylistics, empirical stylistics, discourse analysis.
Teaching Summary
My teaching draws on my research in stylistics, narratology, and cognitive poetics. I teach students at all levels, from first-year undergraduate to postgraduate.
Undergraduate modules taught
Academic Community (level 1); Studying Language (level 1); Writing and Place (level 1); Literary Linguistics (level 2); Advanced Stylistics (level 3); Dissertation (level 3)
Postgraduate modules taught
Cognition and Literature; Dissertation
I also convene the following pods on our online MA English programme:
Cognitive Narratology; Corpus Stylistics, Literary Linguistics, Narratology, Texts in a Digital World, The Language of Dystopia, The Language of Multimodal Literature, The Reader in Stylistics
Research Summary
My research focuses on the language of dystopia and the experience of engaging with dystopian texts. My monograph,The Language of Dystopia (Palgrave), brings together these research interests,… read more
Current Research
My research focuses on the language of dystopia and the experience of engaging with dystopian texts. My monograph,The Language of Dystopia (Palgrave), brings together these research interests, offering an extended stylistic analysis of the dystopian genre and exploring the evolution of new dystopian media.
I have also published on dystopian epistolary, the presentation of unnatural and non-human minds in dystopia, language and gender in dystopia, and the experience of dystopian reading.