Literature and Languages

Pathfoot B5

School of Arts and Humanities

Division of Literature and Languages

University of Stirling

Stirling

FK9 4LA
Scotland

UK

B.A. (Nottingham), Ph.D. (Nottingham)

I have research interests in spoken and written discourse analysis, textual culture (particularly reception studies), language and gender, masculinity and popular culture, sociolinguistics, health communication and educational linguistics. I have published articles and chapters on discourses and representations of masculinity in popular culture, and (with Elizabeth Stokoe, Loughborough University) on tutorial discourse and student identity (see publications list). I am the editor of Masculinity and Men's Lifestyle Magazines, and co-author (with Elizabeth Stokoe) of Discourse and Identity which was shortlisted for the BAAL bookprize in 2007. I am co-editor (with James Procter and Gemma Robinson) of a Special Issue of New Formations (Reading After Empire) and of a Routledge edited collection: Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception.

With James Procter (University of Newcastle), Gemma Robinson (University of Stirling), and Jackie Kay (University of Newcastle), I recently completed an AHRC-funded project (2007-2010): Devolving Diasporas: Migration and Reception in Central Scotland, 1980- present (http://www.devolvingdiasporas.com/). This project involved the analysis of reading group discussions (of 'diasporic' literature), both in Scotland and transnationally. We hosted an international conference September 3-5 2008: ‘Reading After Empire: Local, Global and Diaspora Audiences’. See http://www.devolvingdiasporas.com/conferences.htm and a number of books and articles are forthcoming (see publications list).

May McCreaddie (School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health) and I were recently awarded Research Enterprise Support Scheme monies (University of Stirling) to launch a pilot study and related symposium looking at healthcare interactions in NHS settings from a conversation analytical perspective.

I am interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas: language and gender; masculinity, discourse and popular culture; discourse and identity; ethnographies of reception and reading; spoken discourse and higher education; health communication; any ethnographic or sociological topic involving discourse analytical methodologies (Conversation Analysis or Discourse Analysis).

David Bowker - Communication between supervisors and international students in Masters supervision meetings