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

Chiara Fiori

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

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 agency and identity; Affective and meta-affective strategies for language learning; 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

Dr Stephanie Martin Vega

Fixed Term Teacher, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ask me about: Bilingualism; Lexical Processing ; DLD/ASD/Dyslexia; EEG/fNIRS/Eye-Tracking Research interests: Lexical Processing and executive functions; Bilingualism in impaired population; ERP, N400, Eye-Tracking and Language processing

Matilde Trucco

Fixed Term Teacher, Department of Language and Linguistics

Professor Martin Atkinson

Emeritus Professor, Department of Language and Linguistics

Professor Robert Borsley

Emeritus Professor, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Syntax (negation, coordination, unbounded dependencies, and agreement); Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG); Celtic/Slavonic Languages; Principles and Parameters Theory; Relevance Theory; Philosophy of Linguistics

Professor Roger Hawkins

Emeritus Professor, Department of Language and Linguistics

Prof Florence Myles

Emeritus Professor, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: The development of morphology and syntax in second language acquisition; The role of formulaic language in SLA; The role of age in SLA (in both naturalistic and instructed learners); The use of computerised methodologies in SLA research, especially in the context of Oral Learner Corpora; SLA theory-building

Prof Peter Patrick

Emeritus Professor, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Language Variation & Change; Language and Human Rights; Language Testing of Asylum Seekers; African (American) Diaspora Languages; Pidgin & Creole Linguistics, (esp on Caribbean English-related creoles); Language/Dialect Maintenance, Shift & Death; Sound Change in Sociolinguistic Context

Professor Iggy Roca

Emeritus Professor, Department of Language and Linguistics

Prof Louisa Sadler

Emeritus Professor, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Syntactic Theory [LFG/HPSG]; Description of the Arabic vernaculars; Description of Welsh and other Celtic Languages; Morphology-Syntax and Syntax-Semantics interfaces; Grammar Development using XLE/XFST;

Professor Andrew Spencer

Emeritus Professor, Department of Language and Linguistics

Professor Mark Tatham

Emeritus Professor, Department of Language and Linguistics

Dr Maris Camilleri

Visiting Fellow, Department of Language and Linguistics

Prof Nancy Kula

Visiting Fellow, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Phonological Theory; Phonology-Prosody Interface; Second Language Phonology; Phonology-Syntax Interface; Bantu Languages; Tone and prosodic systems

Dr Renato Pavlekovic

Visiting Fellow, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Explicit and implicit knowledge and learning; Language aptitude and working memory in SLA; Reaction time measures in applied linguistics; Measures of explicit and implicit language aptitude; Statistical models in linguistics

Dr Teresa Poeta

Visiting Fellow, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Bantu Languages; Morphosyntax; Swahili; Multilingualism; Language Variation; Dialectology; Sociolinguistics

Dr Elvis ResCue

Visiting Fellow, Department of Language and Linguistics

Dr Louise Rolland

Visiting Fellow, Department of Language and Linguistics

Dr Stamatia Savvani

Visiting Fellow, Department of Language and Linguistics

Prof Monika Schmid

Visiting Fellow, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: First language attrition; Bilingual development; Cognitive impacts of bilingualism; Research methods in bilingual development; Psycho- and neurolinguistics; Factors in bilingual development

Dr Sophia Skoufaki

Visiting Fellow, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Second language vocabulary learning, teaching, and use; Figurative language processing; Coherence in second language writing

Kateryna Skyba

Visiting Fellow, Department of Language and Linguistics