Our academic staff

Claudia Alsdorf

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: the use of poetry in language teaching; developing transferable skills for the job market; intensive language learning strategies including multisensory language training; poetry translation; condensation in subtitling and poetry

Professor Enam Al-Wer

Professor, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Variation and change (with special interest in Modern Arabic Dialects); Dialect/language contact; Dialectology and dialect geography; Formation of New Dialects; Gender differentiation in language; Language maintenance/shift; Multilingualism and code-switching

Daniela Carboni

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Fluency and critical reading skills; Use of storytelling in the classroom; Syllabus design and formative assessment; Sustainable Teaching, Inclusivity, Decolonising the curriculum.

Dan Chen

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Cooperative learning of interpreting skills; interpreter's knowledge acquisition

Dr Rebecca Clift

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Conversation Analysis with particular interests in; Grammar & Interaction; Territories of Knowledge; Reported Speech; Laughter in interaction; Embodiment in interaction; Indirect language

Dr Tracey Costley

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: English as Additional Language Learners (EAL); Academic Literacies; Student Identity in Writing at University;

Dr Antonio Da Silva

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Cinema in Portuguese; World cinema; Portuguese language; Language teaching; Internet stardom and fandom; Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL); AI (Artificial Inteligence) & language learning/teaching

Dr Beatriz De Paiva

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Intercultural and Interlanguage Pragmatics (pragmatic aspects of conversational interactions between native and non-native speakers); Pragmatics in language teaching; Pragmatics in translation

Professor Hannah Gibson

Professor, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Syntax-semantics interface; Bantu languages; African languages; Morphosyntax; Language contact; Language change; Language description; Variation; Dialectal variation; Contact languages

Dr Christina Gkonou

Reader (R), Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Psychology of foreign language learning and teaching; Language teacher emotions, emotional labour and emotional capital; Language teacher identity and sense of belonging; Language teacher emotion regulation; Language teacher education; Social and emotional learning; Language learner and teacher wellbeing

Alina-Mihaela Isac

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Dr Nasser Jabbari

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL); Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL); Robot Assisted Language Learning (RALL); Digital Game-based Language Learning (DGBLL); Second Language Learning/Teaching/Assessment in Virtual and Augmented Reality Contexts

Dr Ella Jeffries

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Sociolinguistics; Sociophonetics; Regional accents/dialects; Variation in language acquisition

Dr Joseph Lovestrand

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Jessie Mallinson

Head of Department - Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Language Learning for HE students

Dr Nina Markl

Research Fellow (IADS), Department of Language and Linguistics

Dr Neophytos Mitsigkas

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Using literature in the language classroom.; Language Teacher Education; Reader Response Theory (Reception Theory) and the reading of literature; Stylistics and the study of literary texts

Lexa Olivera-Smith

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Translation Studies; Audiovisual Translation; Literary Translation; Translation Pedagogy; Social Media in Teaching & Learning

Dr Angel Osle

Programme Coordinator - Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: L2 phonology; L2 intelligibility, comprehensibility and accentedness; Pronunciation instruction; Second Language Acquisition; Second Language Learning and Teaching

Ignazia Posadinu

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Blended Learning; Technology and language learning; Computer aided translation and interpreting; Audiovosual translation

Dr Charles Redmon

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Dr Natalia Rodriguez Vicente

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Medical humanities; Cross-cultural pragmatics; Public Service Interpreting; Intercultural communication; Interdisciplinarity (Health & Linguistics); Inclusion of minoritised groups in research

Dr Karen Roehr-Brackin

Reader, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Additional or second language (L2) learning across the lifespan; Explicit and implicit knowledge and processes in L2 learning; Cognitive individual differences in L2 learning: language learning aptitude, working memory, cognitive style

Emma Stovell-Milligan

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Felicia Stuhldreher

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Teresa Torres

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Hispanic Cinema; Language and culture

Dr Laetitia Vedrenne

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Gender and Power in French Culture; Language Curriculum Development and Language Assessment (French / English); Technology-Enhanced Language Learning (French / English); Translation (French / English); Interpreting (French / English)

Yujia Wang

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: student-led learning in acquiring practical interpreting skills and professionalism;; Literary translation; Chinese and English Poem translation; Translating traditional and contemporary Chinese literature; film and drama subtitle translation

Antonia Yanxi Wu

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Subtitling and Audiovisual Translation (AVT); Children's Literature Translation; Localisation; Transcreation

Dr Demetris Angiachi

Senior Research Officer, Department of Language and Linguistics