Our academic staff

Claudia Alsdorf

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: the use of poetry in language teaching; using portfolio assessment to develop transferable skills for the job market; intensive language learning strategies including multisensory language training; German ab-initio intensive route for beginners leading to mastery level; 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

Dounia Bissar

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Second language acquisition; Translation; Language testing

Dr Marisa Brook

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

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 Amanda Cole

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Language Attitudes; Sociolinguistics; Language Variation and Change; Sociophonetics

Dr Tracey Costley

Head of Department - Senior Lecturer (R), 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

Christopher Da Silva

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Language Education (learning and teaching); The "exception culturelle" in France; Education in the contemporary French cinema and TV series

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

Dr Claire Delle Luche

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Language variability: accents (children), bilingualism (children); Semantic processing (children); Speech perception (infants, children, adults)

Chiara Fiori

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Dr Adela Ganem Gutierrez

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: The role of interaction in the processes of second language learning; Second language (L2) learning from a Sociocultural theory perspective; Feedback and scaffolding; Collaborative activity and second language learning; Instructed SLA; CALL in particular the impact of the computer in the L2 classroom and the potential of Virtual World Environments for L2 learning; Applications of Cognitive Linguistics to L2 learning and teaching

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 Kyle Jerro

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Lexical Semantics; Syntax-Semantics Interface; Linguistic Typology; Bantu languages; Language Description; Semantics

Dr Rachid Khoumikham

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Dr Laurel Lawyer

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: neurolinguistics; laboratory phonology; morphological processing; cognitive science; history of linguistic theory; Signed languages (ASL, BSL); deaf language processing; language acquisition; cochlear implants

Jessie Mallinson

Faculty Progress and Assessment Officer - Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Language Learning for HE students

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; Interactional pragmatics; Methodologies for interpreting research; Multilingual healthcare communication; Research ethics

Dr Karen Roehr-Brackin

Reader, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Second language (L2) learning from a usage-based (emergentist, cognitive-functional) perspective; Explicit and implicit knowledge and learning; Individual learner differences in L2 learning, especially language learning aptitude, working memory and cognitive/learning style

Dr Louise Rolland

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Dr Stamatia Savvani

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Emma Stovell-Milligan

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Teresa Torres

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Hispanic Cinema; Language and culture

Matilde Trucco

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

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: Translation Quality Assessment; Gender Equality in Translation; Chinese Philosophy Translation; Chinese Literature Translation; Children's Literature Translation; Localisation; Transcreation

Yuchen Zong

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Language learning strategy; Instructed second language acquisition; Positive psychology

Dr Sophie Liggins

Research Fellow, Department of Language and Linguistics

Dr Nina Markl

Research Fellow (IADS), Department of Language and Linguistics

Renato Pavlekovic

Research Officer, 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

Senior Research Officer, Department of Language and Linguistics

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

Dr Elvis ResCue

Senior Research Officer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Dr Zak Absi

Fixed Term Teacher, Department of Language and Linguistics

Yan Li

Fixed Term Teacher, Department of Language and Linguistics

Victor Rivera Munoz

Fixed Term Teacher, Department of Language and Linguistics

Dr Stamatia Savvani

Fixed Term Teacher, Department of Language and Linguistics

Felicia Stuhldreher

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 Andrew Radford

Emeritus Professor, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Minimalist Syntax and English Syntax

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 Areej Al-Hawamdeh

Visiting Fellow, Department of Language and Linguistics

Robert Delargy

Visiting Fellow, Department of Language and Linguistics

Dr Michael Jones

Visiting Fellow, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Syntactic Theory & Description; Romance Languages

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 Eylem Oruc

Visiting Fellow, Department of Language and Linguistics

Philip Scholfield

Visiting Fellow, Department of Language and Linguistics

Kateryna Skyba

Visiting Fellow, Department of Language and Linguistics