Literature and Languages
Staff Information
Dr Bethan Benwell
Books/Special Issues
Benwell, B., Procter, J. and Robinson, G. (eds) (2011) Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception. London: Routledge.
Benwell, B., Procter, J. and Robinson, G. (eds) (2011) Reading After Empire (Special Issue of New Formations: 73)
Benwell, B & Stokoe, E. (2006) Discourse and Identity Edinburgh: EUP (shortlisted for the annual BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguists) prize in 2007)
Benwell, B. (ed) (2003) Masculinity and Men's Lifestyle Magazines. Oxford: Blackwell (Sociological Review Monograph Series)
Journal Articles
Benwell, B. (forthcoming 2011) ‘Masculine Identity and Identification as Ethnomethodological Phenomena: Revisiting Cameron and Kulick’ Gender and Language 5(2).
Benwell, B., Procter, J. and Robinson, G. (2011) ‘Not Reading Brick Lane’. In Reading After Empire (Special Issue of New Formations 73: 64-90)
Benwell, B. (2009) ‘A pathetic and racist and awful character’: ethnomethodological approaches to the reception of diasporic fiction Language and Literature, 18(3) 300-315
Benwell, B. (2007) ‘New Sexism?: Readers’ Responses to the use of Irony in Men’s Magazines’. Journalism Studies. 8(4): 539-549
Benwell, B. (2005) ‘“Lucky this is Anonymous!” Men’s Magazines and Ethnographies of Reading: A Textual Culture Approach.’ Discourse and Society, 16 (2): 147-172.
Benwell, B. (2004) ‘Ironic Discourse: Evasive Masculinity in British Men's Lifestyle Magazines’. Men and Masculinities 7(1): 3-21
Benwell, B. and Stokoe, E. (2002) ‘Constructing Discussion Tasks in University Tutorials: Shifting Dynamics and Identities’ Discourse Studies 4(4): 429-453
Benwell, B. (2001) ‘Have a go if you think you're hard enough!: Male Gossip and Language Play in the Letters Pages of Men's Lifestyle Magazines’. Journal of Popular Culture. 35 (1): 19-33
Benwell, B. (1999) ‘The Collaborative Construction of Knowledge: Issues, Rhetorical Relations and Pedagogic Discourse Strategies in Multidisciplinary Tutorial Discourse’. Pragmatics 9(4): 535-565.
Chapters
Allington, D. & Benwell, B. (forthcoming 2012) ‘Book Talk: Discourse Analytical Approaches to Reception’. In Lang, A. (ed) From Codex to Hypertext: Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press)
Benwell, B., Procter, J. and Robinson, G. (forthcoming 2011) ‘“That may … be where I come from but that’s not how I read”: Diaspora, Location and the Limits of Reading Group Data’. In Benwell et al (eds) Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception (Routledge)
Benwell, B. (2010) ‘Masculinity and men’s magazines’. In Simpson, P. and Mayr, A. Language and Power; A Resource Book for Students. London: Routledge
Benwell, B., & Stokoe, E. (2010). Identity in social action: Conversation, narratives and genealogies (pp. 56-77). In M. Wetherell & C.T. Mohanty (Eds.), The Sage handbook of identities. London: Sage.
Benwell, B., & Stokoe, E. (2010). University students resisting academic identity (pp. 82-97). In P. Griffiths, A.J. Merrison, & A. Bloomer (Eds.), Language in use: A reader. London: Routledge.
Benwell, B. and Stokoe, E. (2005) ‘University students resisting academic identity’. In Richards and Seedhouse (eds) Applying Conversation Analysis. Palgrave: Macmillan.
Benwell, B. (2003) ‘Ambiguous Masculinities: Heroism and Anti-heroism in the Men's Lifestyle Magazine’. In Benwell (ed) Masculinity and Men's Lifestyle Magazines. Oxford: Blackwell (Sociological Review Monograph Series)
Benwell, B. (2003) ‘Introduction’. In Benwell (ed) Masculinity and Men's Lifestyle Magazines. Oxford: Blackwell (Sociological Review Monograph Series)
Benwell, B. (2002). ‘Elusive Masculinities: Locating the Male in the Men’s Lifestyle Magazine’. In Antonia Sanchez-Macarro (ed) Windows on the World: Media Discourse in English, English Language Studies texts series, University of Valencia Press.
Benwell (2002) ‘Is There Anything "New" About these Lads?: The Construction of Masculinity in Men's Magazines’. In Sunderland and Litosseliti (eds) Discourse Analysis and Gender Identity. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins