Staff profiles
Linguistics
First name
Joanna
Function
Assistant Professor
Expertise
Discourse, Gender and Sexuality; Sociolinguistics; Queer Linguistics; Multilingualism and Minority Languages
First name
Steven
Function
Assistant Professor (English linguistics)
Expertise
English linguistics | Hip-hop | African-American English
Disciplines
First name
Merel
Function
Professor of English Linguistics and English as a Second Language (ESL) / Rosalind Franklin Fellow
Expertise
Bilingualism, Bilingual processing, first language attrition, bilingualism and cognitive aging, second language pedagogy
Disciplines
First name
Remco
Function
Assistant Professor in English Language and Linguistics
Expertise
Sociolinguistics
Sociophonetics
Language variation
Language change
Language contact
Language, gender and sexuality
Scandinavian languages (Norwegian, Faroese)
Sociophonetics
Language variation
Language change
Language contact
Language, gender and sexuality
Scandinavian languages (Norwegian, Faroese)
Disciplines
First name
Greg
Function
Associate Professor of English Linguistics and English as a Second Language (ESL)
Expertise
Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Psycholinguistics, Bilingualism & Cognition, Executive Function
Disciplines
First name
Hans
Function
Student advisor, Lecturer English
Expertise
Shakespeare; English Drama; Mediating: Translation and correction; Language Acquisition; History of English
Disciplines
First name
Morana
Function
Assistant Professor
Expertise
I am Assistant Professor in English Linguistics at the University of Groningen's Center for Language and Cognition. My research centers on how people produce socially meaningful patterns of language variation, with a particular focus on how such variation signals group membership and relates to broader structures of social inequality. My work primarily examines these issues in the context of social class, gender, and mental health. Additionally, I have a strong interest in language ideologies.Within this field, I have co-introduced the term “grassroots prescriptivism”. This concept broadly refers to speakers’ efforts to implement and promote standard language ideologies. I explored this phenomenon in depth in my doctoral dissertation of the same name (Leiden University, 2018), and have since been working to diversify scholarship on prescriptivism by highlighting research on languages outside the (Western) European context. These efforts culminated in the publication of the Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism (Beal, Lukač, & Straijer, 2023), the first comprehensive resource in the field. My research has since expanded to include the evolving pronominal systems in English and Dutch, more specifically, the trends surrounding non-binary pronouns. I am especially interested in the social and linguistic factors that influence the acceptability of these pronouns and how guidelines on inclusive language can be crafted to improve their reception among different speaker groups.In addition, I am increasingly interested in the language of mental health. Currently, I am conducting corpus-based discourse analysis of narratives from individuals who have experienced trauma, aiming to identify linguistic patterns that reveal pathways toward coping with their experiences. *If you are interested in joining my research group, please email me with a brief description of your profile, research interests, and why you would like to work with me in Groningen. If you have secured funding (either external or internal) for your PhD, please include this information in your message.*
Modern Literature
First name
David
Expertise
Modernism, Post-Modernism, the Enlightenment, Theory and Philosophy, Post-Humanism, Imperialism, Cultural Geography, Poetry, Poetics and Publishing
Disciplines
First name
John
Function
Assistant Professor
Expertise
Early modern and medieval Anglophone literature and culture. Christianity in English literature.
Disciplines
First name
Ann Catherine
Function
Assistant Professor
Expertise
Literature, Modernism, Women's Travel Writing, and Migrant Fiction
First name
Julia
Expertise
(long) nineteenth-century English literature and culture (esp. novel, gender, popularity, Empire, realism, Anglo-German relations); travel writing (often with a China/Hong Kong focus, theories of travel/ writing); literary and poetic theory (genre, realism, geopoetics)
First name
Ashley
Function
Assistant Professor
Expertise
interdisciplinary modernism, modern and contemporary British literature (specializing in the literature of the mid-twentieth century), literature and politics, environmental humanities, the novel
First name
Pauline
Expertise
The fiction and literary archives of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The prose of Indian writer Kiran Nagarkar and satire in modern Indian literature. Postcolonial Studies in Literature related to former British colonies; diaspora fiction and transnational writing; genetic criticism in literary archives. I am interested in critique of the short story form, in women writers' representation in public and educational institutional archives and creative ways to engage students with literature.
Disciplines
First name
Tekla
Function
Assistant Professor
Expertise
Modern English literature, print culture, book history, periodicals, publishing studies, typography, literary modernism, nationalism, James Joyce, popular and genre fiction, contemporary romance, fanfiction, fictional adaptation and appropriation, fictional retellings, translingual and transcultural fiction, literary multilingualism, literature and wellbeing.
Disciplines
First name
Spencer
Function
Assistant Professor
Expertise
20/21C American literature; literary theory; American Studies
Disciplines
First name
Gabriella
Function
Docent (Faculty of Arts); Project Assistant (BSS)
Disciplines
Medieval Literature
First name
Kees
Function
Senior Lecturer in Older English Literature and Culture
Expertise
Old English philology, Middle English philology, medieval literature, encyclopaedic literature of the early medieval period, manuscript studies, the history of the Germanic languages, thel study of Old English and Old Germanic languages and cultures during the early modern period
Disciplines
First name
Aline
Function
Lecturer, Programme coordinator GSH
Expertise
Middle English, late medieval English politics and literature, manuscript studies, palaeograpy and codicology, Wars of the Roses, medieval kingship, Chaucer, fifteenth-century poetry
First name
Megan
Expertise
Medieval romance; Arthurian literature; Chaucer and Lydgate; dream visions; history of the emotions; gender studies; medical humanities; manuscript studies; literature and law; treason, sleep, and dwarves in Middle English literature; Malory's Morte Darthur, the Wars of the Roses, and the fifteenth century in English and Scottish textual culture; periodisation and continuities between medieval and early modern English Literature
Disciplines
First name
Karin
Function
Assistant Professor
Expertise
Old English language and literature; Middle English language and literature; Old Norse language and literature; early Irish literature
Disciplines
First name
Patrick
Function
Assistant Professor in Medieval English Language and Culture
Expertise
Late-medieval literature, Wycliffite/ lollard and Hussite writings, Central European religious controversy, medieval medicine, the Piers Plowman tradition, sermon studies, medieval law, palaeography, codicology and history of the book
English for Academic Purposes
First name
Iris
First name
Carole
Expertise
English as a Second Language, English for Academic Purposes, inclusive international classrooms
Disciplines
Function
Instructor English linguistics and applied linguistics
Expertise
Academic writing and speaking, English as a Second Language, English syntax, reporting on research in linguistics, AI in Higher Education.
Disciplines
First name
Barbara
Function
Lecturer
Expertise
Comics studies; narrative theory; English for Academic Purposes; 20th and 21st century American Literature; graphic narrative; word and image
First name
Marieke
Function
Lecturer
Expertise
Second language teaching, English for academic purposes, oral proficiency, group work
Disciplines
First name
Annelot
Function
Lecturer
Expertise
Second language acquisition, second language teaching, English for academic purposes, sociolinguistics, phonetics and phonology, second language phonology
PhD Students
First name
Naomi
Function
PhD student
First name
Janine
Function
PhD Candidate
Expertise
Bilingualism/bilingual experiences, cognitive aging, Alzheimer's Disease, (resting-state) EEG, functional brain activity
Disciplines
First name
Judith
Function
PhD Student
Expertise
Middle English (Religious) Literature, History of the Book, Material Culture, Devotional Reading Practices, Memoralisation, Testamentary Charity
First name
Dima
Function
PhD candidate
Expertise
Multimodality, Hip Hop, Cultural studies, Pragmatics
Disciplines
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