Welcome (back) to our students for the 2017-18 academic year!
What's different this year?
We are growing! And we are thrilled to welcome new members of staff to our department:
Evan Hazenberg has joined us as Lecturer in World Englishes. Evan works on sociolinguistic variation, particularly in Canadian and New Zealand Englishes, and has a broad interest in gender and sexuality as socially and linguistically constructed dimensions of identity. He also tackles theoretical questions about socially driven variation, methodological questions about modelling, and ethnographic questions about ‘community’. With Miriam Meyerhoff he has co-edited a new book that explores trans identities and experiences from both academic and community perspectives: Representing Trans: Linguistic, Legal and Everyday Perspectives,
This year, Evan will be teaching at all undergraduate levels: the foundation year (Language in Literature), the elective module Language and Power, first-year Investigating Language in Context, second-year Social Variation in English, and third-year Language and Gender.
Kat Gupta joins us as Teaching Fellow in English Language.
Kat's research uses corpus linguistics and (critical) discourse analysis to examine socially constructed identities and the representation of marginalised groups. Their doctoral research examined the representation of the British women's suffrage movement in The Times newspaper; a book based on this research was published by Bloomsbury in 2016. Kat's current research interests are the representation of transgender people in the press (article forthcoming soon!) and, more recently, investigating issues raised by working with a corpus of online erotica.
Kat will be teaching on modules at all year levels: in year 1, Approaches to Meaning, Approaches to Grammar, and Structure of English (1st year); in year 3 Forensic Linguistics, Pragmatics and Intercultural Pragmatics and Research Proposal; and, at MA level, Researching Language in Use and Language and Culture. Second-year students will meet Kat for a session of Great Ideas about Language.
Charlotte Taylor is off on maternity leave this term. (Best wishes, Charlotte!)
We also have one new module this Autumn, Language in the United States, an Autumn second-year option designed for both English Language and American Studies students. The module is full up for this year, but if you're interested in the subject matter, please chat with Lynne Murphy.
Kat Gupta joins us as Teaching Fellow in English Language.
Kat's research uses corpus linguistics and (critical) discourse analysis to examine socially constructed identities and the representation of marginalised groups. Their doctoral research examined the representation of the British women's suffrage movement in The Times newspaper; a book based on this research was published by Bloomsbury in 2016. Kat's current research interests are the representation of transgender people in the press (article forthcoming soon!) and, more recently, investigating issues raised by working with a corpus of online erotica.Kat will be teaching on modules at all year levels: in year 1, Approaches to Meaning, Approaches to Grammar, and Structure of English (1st year); in year 3 Forensic Linguistics, Pragmatics and Intercultural Pragmatics and Research Proposal; and, at MA level, Researching Language in Use and Language and Culture. Second-year students will meet Kat for a session of Great Ideas about Language.
Charlotte Taylor is off on maternity leave this term. (Best wishes, Charlotte!)
We also have one new module this Autumn, Language in the United States, an Autumn second-year option designed for both English Language and American Studies students. The module is full up for this year, but if you're interested in the subject matter, please chat with Lynne Murphy.
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