Going to be a little busy the coming time trying to work out what this thing called parenting means, so anything academic is on hold for now 👋

Happily posing as a new Dr after my PhD viva yesterday, and an elated call with a proud supervisor a minute later 🎉

Thanks to Marian Martínez & Shona Bettany for a pleasant discussion, @louisenuttall.bsky.social for 7 years of superb supervision, & Liz Towns-Andrews for being the best academic mum!

Temporary post at Nottingham - Teaching Associate in Applied LInguistics. Come and work with us in @uonenglish.bsky.social! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Well, that's that! PhD submitted 🥳

A full circle moment to do so with @kpager1.bsky.social present - I got to be there when she submitted hers, and now she was there for me! 🥰

It's undoubtedly exciting when someone cites your work, but how should you feel when the claim it's used for is not actually made in your article? 🤔

PALA is thrilled to finally be on Blue Sky!! Feel free to follow and/or suggest followees! 🥳🎉

🌟Publication day🌟

My new book, The Language of Margaret Atwood, is now available.

This has been a Project and a Half, so a big thank you to friends and colleagues for the support along the way!

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Here is a Babel starter pack - the Babel team, Babel Lecturers, and linguists who have written for Babel!

go.bsky.app/8er96Fh

🧑‍🏫 Teachers! 👨‍🏫
📚 Grab a set of free Babel issues 📚
📧 babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com 📧

Come and work at the University of Sheffield! Research Associate in corpus linguistics needed for a project on Kazuo Ishiguro. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGF991/r...

Come and work with us at RWTH Aachen. Full Professorship (W2) in Empirical Reader Response Studies and English Literary Studies at the English Department and the Aachen Center for Cognitive and Empirical Literary Studies. For details go to the ACCELS site
accels.rwth-aachen.de/cms/accels/d...

Come join us for the Aston Stylistics Research Group Applied Stylistics Symposium in January! Registration open now!

Really excited to share that an article I wrote with the excellent Dr Valerie Hobbs on conversion narrative in the #biomimicry movement is out now!
#ecolinguistics #religiouslanguage

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I think the publication of a special issue that I co-guest edited with Carolina Fernandez-Quintanilla for the Journal of Literary Semantics is a great occasion for a first post! 🎉

Check out our special issue on Stylistic Approaches to Narrative Empathy here 👇🏻

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...