I am the Deputy Director of Digital Humanities at University of Southampton. Whilst my primary disciplinary background is in linguistics, my work is more comfortably positioned at the interdisciplinary intersection(s) of (digital) media, communication, gender and sexuality studies. My research primarily focuses on corpus-based critical discourse studies, exploring the implications that identity and ideology have on people, institutions, and structures. Thus far, this research has extended primarily to an exploration of gender and sexuality in online discourses, examining the connections and divisions between online and offline contexts.
Experience
2022–present
Deputy Director of Digital Humanities, University of Southampton
2019–2022
Lecturer in Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University
2022–2022
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University
Education
2020
Manchester Metropolitan University, PGCert Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
2020
Lancaster University, PhD in Applied Linguistics
2017
Lancaster University, MRes in Applied Linguistics
2015
Manchester Metropolitan University, BA (Hons) Linguistics
Publications
2021
"Ties That Bind": The continued conflation of sex, sexuality and gender., Journal of Language and Sexuality, 10(1). 63-70.
2021
'It reminds me that I should stop for the little moments': Exploring emotions in experiences of UK Covid-19 lockdown, Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine.
2021
'It reminds me that I should stop for the little moments': Exploring emotions in experiences of UK Covid-19 lockdown., Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
2021
“Erase/Rewind”: How transgender Twitter discourses challenge and (re)politicize lesbian identities., Journal of Lesbian Studies
2019
"I am I": Self-constructed transgender identities in Internet-mediated forum communication., International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2019(256). 129-146.
2018
"I Wanna Be a Toy": Self-sexualisation in gender-variant Twitter users' biographies., Journal of Language and Sexuality , 7(2). 205-236.
2018
"Misery Business?": The contribution of corpus-driven critical discourse analysis to understanding gender-variant Twitter users' experiences of employment., puntOorg International Journal, 3(1/2). 25-50.