Dr Jane Sunderland
Director of Studies, PhD in Applied Linguistics by Thesis and Coursework and New Route PhD programmes.
Degree: BA (Hons), DipTESL, Dip Women's Studies, M Litt, MA in Linguistics for ELT, MA in Theatre Studies, PhD.
Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Centre for Language in Social Life, Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research, Research in Language, Gender and Sexuality
Current Teaching
Gender and Language (PhD in Applied Linguistics by Thesis and Coursework, MA TESOL and Lancaster/Hong Kong MA programmes, MA in English Language (distance))
Writing for Publication (FASS Research Training programme short course)
Postgraduate Academic Study Skills (MA programmes)
Research Interests
Jane is the Director of Studies of the PhD in Applied Linguistics by Thesis and Coursework programme. Her main research interest is discourse, language and gender. She teaches mainly in the area of language and gender. From 1988 until 1991 Jane was a tutor in the Institute for English Language Education, Lancaster University .
Jane co-ordinates the Gender and Language research group (GAL). Her most recent books are the research monographs Language, Gender and Children's Fiction (2010, Continuum), Gendered Discourses (2004, Palgrave Macmillan), and the advanced coursebook Gender and Language: an Advanced Resourcebook (2006, Routledge). She was also co-editor (with Lia Litosseliti, Kate Harrington and Helen Sauntson) of Gender and Language Research Methodologies (Palgrave, 2008) and (with Lia Litosseliti) of Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis (John Benjamins, 2002). Her PhD was entitled 'Gendered discourse in the foreign language classroom: teacher-student and student teacher talk, and the social construction of children's femininities and masculinities'.
Jane has published articles in the Journal of Pragmatics, Gender and Education, ELT Journal, System, Language Teaching Research, Discourse and Society, Language Teaching, Language and Education, Linguistics and Education and Gender and Language.
PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming
(a) Co-edited collection
2012 Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa:Tradition, Struggle and Change(co-edited with Lilian Atanga, Sibonile Ellece and Lia Litosseliti). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
(b) Refereed journal articles
2012 ' "Brown Sugar": tiny texts and globalisation'. Gender and Language 6/1: 103 - 127.
2012 'Gender and language in sub-Saharan African contexts: issues and challenges'. Gender and Language 6/1: 1 - 20. (with Lilian Atanga, Sibonile Ellece and Lia Litosseliti)
2012/13 'Thelinguistic, visual and multimodal representation of gay parents in picturebooks'.Language and Literature (with Mark McGlashan)
(c) Chapters in edited collections
2012 'Language, gender and age(ism) in Setswana' (with Mompoloki Bagwasi). In Atanga, L., Ellece, S., Litosseliti, L. and Sunderland, J. (eds.) Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa:Tradition, Struggle and Change.Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2012 'Teaching gender: a linguistic turn'. In Fiona Tolan and Alice Ferrebe (eds.) Teaching Gender. Palgrave Macmillan.
Authored books
2010 Language, Gender and Children's Fiction. London: Continuum.
2006 Gender and Language: an Advanced Resourcebook. London: Routledge.
2004 Gendered Discourses. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Edited collection
1994 Exploring Gender: Questions and Implications for Language Education, Hemel Hempstead: Prentice Hall
Co-edited books
2008 Language and Gender Research Methodologies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) (edited with Kate Harrington, Lia Litosseliti and Helen Sauntson)
2002 Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis, Amsterdam: John Benjamins (with Lia Litosseliti).
1993 Research Processes in Applied Linguistics: Proceedings of the Research Students' Forum 1992. Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University, UK (with Telma Gimenez).
Journal articles (* = refereed)
2007* 'Contradictions in gendered discourses: feminist readings of sexist jokes?' In Gender and Language 1/2: 207 - 228.
2006* 'Parenting' or 'mothering': the case of modern childcare magazines'. Discourse and Society 17/4: 503 - 527 (forthcoming)
2004* 'Why these data? rationales for data selection in doctoral student presentations' Language and Education 18/5: 435 - 455.
2002* 'Focus on 'Gender and Language' special issue: Introduction'. South African Linguistics and Applied Language Study 20: 127 - 134.
2002* 'New communication practices and the psychological and affective function of e-mail on a 'distance', partly-taught PhD programme.' Studies in Higher Education 27/2: 233 - 246.
2000* 'From bias "in the text" to "teacher talk around the text": an exploration of teacher discourse and gendered foreign language textbook texts'. Linguistics and Education 11/3: 251 - 286 (first author, with Fauziah Abdul Rahim, Maire Cowley, Christina Leontzakou and Julie Shattuck).
2000* 'State of the art review article: Gender, language and language education.' Language Teaching 33/4: 203 - 223.
2000 'Research into gender in language education: lingering problems and new directions.' The Language Teacher 27/7: 8-10.
2000* 'New understandings of gender and language classroom research: texts, teacher talk and student talk.' Language Teaching Research 4/2: 149 - 173.
2000* 'Baby entertainer, bumbling assistant and line manager: discourses of fatherhood in parentcraft texts.' Discourse and Society 11/2: 249 - 274.
1998* 'Girls being quiet: A problem for foreign language classrooms?' Language Teaching Research 2/1: 48 - 62.
1997* 'Who learns what from John and Sally?: discourse roles and gender in language textbook dialogues' Gender and Education 8/4: 469 - 490 (main author; with Martha Jones and Catherine Kitetu).
1996 'Gender representation in EFL materials: suggestions for teacher development'. Teacher Development 32: 21 - 23.
1995 'Learner gender and language testing'. Language Testing Update 17: 24 -
1992 'Gender in the EFL classroom'. ELT Journal 46/1: 81 - 91 (special IATEFL 25th anniversary issue).
1992 'Teaching materials and teaching/learning processes'. Working Papers in Language, Gender and Sexism 4: 15 - 26.
1991* 'The decline of man'. Journal of Pragmatics 16: 505 - 522.
1991 'The value of project Work in INSET'. System 19/4: 309 - 319 (joint author, with Elizabeth Toncheva).
Book chapters
2009 'Theorising gender perspectives in second and foreign language learning'. In Jimenez Catalan, Rosa Maria (ed.) Gender Perspectives on Vocabulary in Foreign and Second Languages. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
2009 'Researching language and gender'. In Paltridge, B. and Phakiti, A. (eds.) Companion to Research Methods in Applied Linguistics Sydney: Continuum.
2009 'Research questions'. In Litosseliti, L. (ed.) Research Methods in Linguistics. London: Continuum.
2009 'Gender and Language'. In Culpeper, J.; Katamba, F., Kerswill, P.; McEnery, T.; Wodak, R. (eds.) English Language and Linguistics Dept. of Linguisticsand English Language, Lancaster University.
2008 'Current research methodologies in gender and language studies: key issues', in Harrington, K., Litosseliti, L., Sauntson, H. andSunderland, J., (eds) Language and Gender Research Methodologies.London: Palgrave Macmillan (with Lia Litosseliti)
2003 ' "What it's like to get paid to have sex": Representation of a male prostitute'. In Benwell, B. (ed.). Men's Lifestyle Magazines, Edinburgh: Edinburgh U. P., pp. 169 - 187 (Joint author with Yolande Taylor)
2003 'Gender and language learning.' In Norton, B. and Toohey, K. (eds.). Critical Pedagogies and Language Learning, Cambridge : CUP, pp. 222 - 241.
2002 'Gender identity and discourse analysis: theoretical and empirical considerations.' In Litosseliti. L. and Sunderland , J. (eds.), Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis, Amsterdam : John Benjamins, pp. 1 - 39.
2002 'From representation towards discursive practices: gender in the foreign language textbook revisited' In Litosseliti. L. and Sunderland , J. (eds.) Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis. Amsterdam : John Benjamins, pp. 233 - 255. (Main author, with Maire Cowley, Fauziah Abdul Rahim, Christina Leontzakou and Julie Shattuck).
2002 'Baby entertainer, bumbling assistant and line manager: discourses of paternal identity in parentcraft texts'. In Litosseliti. L. and Sunderland , J. (eds.) Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis, Amsterdam : John Benjamins, pp. 293 - 324.
2000 'Gender and classroom research: what's special about the language classroom?' In Cochran, E. and Yepez. M. (eds.) Issues in Gender, Language and Classroom Pedagogy New Jersey : TESOL/BE and BASTOS Educational Books, pp. 93 - 120.
1996 'Gender in the EFL classroom'. In Hedge, T and Whitney, N. (eds.) Power, Pedagogy and Practice, Oxford : OUP, pp. ADD.
1995 ' "We're boys, miss!": getting learners to reflect on their own classroom behaviour.' In Mills, S. (ed.) Language and Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, London : Longman, pp. 160 - 178.
1994 'Pedagogical and other filters: the representation of non-sexist language change in British pedagogical grammars'. In Sunderland , J. (ed.) Exploring Gender: Questions and Implications for English Language Education, Hemel Hempstead : Prentice Hall, pp. 92 - 103.
1994 'Differential teacher-treatment-by-gender in the EFL classroom: using ex-participants' perspectives'. In Sunderland , J. (ed.) Exploring Gender: Questions and Implications for English Language Education, Prentice Hall, pp. 148 - 155.
Publications in Conference Proceedings and Encyclopaedia Entries
2010 'Conversation Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis in language and gender' (with Ann Weatherall, Judith Baxter and Maria Stubbe). In Janet Holmes and Meredith Marra (eds.) Femininity, Feminism and Gendered Discourse. Selected and edited collection of papers from IGALA5, VictoriaUniversity of Wellington. Cambridge Scholars.
2009 'Language and gender in African contexts'. In Proceedings of the BAAL 2009 Conference. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, pp. 127 - 129.
2000 'Gender and language'. In Byram, M. (ed.) Routledge Encyclopaedia of Language Teaching and Learning.
2000 'Gender issues'. In Byram, M. (ed.) Routledge Encyclopaedia of Language Teaching and Learning.
1996 'Focusing, sacrificing, refining.' In Kryatsis, S. and Tzanne, A. (eds.) Muddy Fields: Doing Research in Linguistics - Proceedings of the 1995 Research Students' Forum, Dept. of Linguistics and Modern English Language.
1993 'Technology and classroom research'. In Gimenez, T. and Sunderland , J. (eds.) Research Processes in Applied Linguistics: Proceedings of the Research Students' Forum 1992, Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, pp. 63 - 74.
'Gender and language'. In Strazney, P. (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Linguistics. Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn
Working Papers
2002 'Gender and Genre Bibliography' (second edition) Centre for Language in Social Life Working Paper 113, Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University (with Paul Baker and Ren-Feng Duann).
2001 'Student initiation, teacher response, student follow-up: towards an appreciation of student-initiated IRFs in the language classroom. Centre for Research in Language Education Working Paper 54, Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University .
2000 'Gendered discourses in the classroom: the importance of cultural diversity'. In Yamashiro, A. (ed.)Temple University of Japan Working Papers, pp. 26 - 40 (main author, with Catherine Kitetu).
Book Reviews
2007 Review of Lia Litosseliti, 'Language and Gender: Theory and Practice' (2006). In European Journal of Women's Studies.
http://ejw.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/14/2/171?rss=1
2005 Review of Baxter, J. Positioning Gender in Discourse: a Feminist Methodology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) for Linguistics and Education 15: 295 - 301.
2003 Review of Norton, B. Identity and Language Learning: Gender, Ethnicity and Educational Change (Longman, 2000), for Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
1998 Review of Bergvall, V, Bing, J. and Freed, A. (eds.) Rethinking Language and Gender Research (Longman, 1996), for Sociological Research Online, 1998. http://www.socresonline.org.uk/
Other
2003 'Academic Speaking Bibliography' http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/Biblio_AcademicSpeaking.htm
1996 Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language Code of Practice for Non-discriminatory Communication. Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University (main author, with members of Language and Gender in the Classroom (LAGIC) research group).
Potential Doctoral Proposals
I am interested in supervising doctoral work on most aspects of gender and language/discourse, including language/discourse as they pertain to language education, to children's fiction and to African contexts. In particular, I would be interested in supervising a doctoral project on the relationship between the Harry Potter series and boys' literacies. I am currently supervisingfour full-time students PhD and three part-time PhD students.
The topics I am currently supervising include:
- gender and swearing in Kuwaiti Arabic
- gendered discourses around domestic responsibilities in a UK African disapora
- changing gender representation in EFL textbooks in Hong Kong
- EFL students' use of digital media in classroom learning
- celebrity masculinity in Japanese newspapers
- the reception of children's picturebooks featuring two-Mum and two-Dad families
- 'voice' in Mexican undergraduate's dissertations written in English
Past-President of IGALA/National Teaching Fellow
I was President of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) (2006 - 2008). http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/igala/index.html . As part of my Presidency I aimed to get IGALA 'talking to the world'.
In June 2007 I was awarded a 'National Teaching Fellowship' for my work in initiating developing and running the PhD in Applied Linguistics by Thesis and Coursework and New Route PhD in Applied Linguistics programmes.
http://domino.lancs.ac.uk/Info/lunews.nsf/I/645F7F76E948B0038025732B0050768D
With this Fellowship, I developed my understanding of issues of language and gender in African contexts. To this end, I sponsored BAAL seminars on the topic (jointly run by the BAAL Language and Gender and Language in Africa SiGs) in Leeds, November 2007, and London, November 2008http://www.baal.org.uk/sigs_gender.htm I have links with colleagues in Botswana and Cameroon and co-ran, with Dr. Sibonile Ellece, a seminar on the topic in May 2008 in Gaborone, Botswana, and in April 2009 in Cameroon with Dr Lilian Atanga (University of Dschang). I also ran a symposium on the topic at the IGALA5 Conference in Wellington, in July 2008 http://groups.google.co.uk/group/gal-africa?hl=en
The final event of the programme was a longer, international seminar at the University of Obafemi Awolowo, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, April 13-15 2010, hosted by Professor Yisa Yusuf.
Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database
Jane Sunderland has 32 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk
Harrington, Kate and Litosseliti, Lia and Sauntson, Helen and Sunderland, Jane (2008) Gender and language research methodologies. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230550681
Sunderland, Jane (2007) Contradictions in gendered discourses: feminist readings of sexist jokes? Gender and Language, 1 (2). pp. 207-228. ISSN 1747-6321
Sunderland, Jane (2006) 'Parenting' or 'mothering': the case of modern childcare magazines'. Discourse and Society, 17 (4). pp. 503-528. ISSN 0957-9265
Sunderland, Jane (2006) Language and gender : an advanced resourcebook. Routledge applied linguistics . Routledge, London. ISBN 0415311039
Sunderland, Jane (2005) Review of Baxter, J. Positioning Gender in Discourse: a Feminist Methodology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). Linguistics and Education, 15 (2). pp. 295-301. ISSN 0898-5898
Sunderland, Jane (2004) Gender and language learning. In: Critical pedagogies and language learning. The Cambridge applied linguistics series . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 222-241. ISBN 0521828023
Sunderland, Jane (2004) Gendered discourses. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 1403913447
Sunderland, Jane (2004) Why these data? rationales for data selection in doctoral student presentations. Language and Education, 18 (5). pp. 435-455. ISSN 0950-0782
Sunderland, Jane and Missing, Missing (2002) Baby entertainer, bumbling assistant and line manager: discourses of paternal identity in parentcraft texts. In: Gender identity and discourse analysis. Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture (2). John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 293-324. ISBN 902722692X
Sunderland, Jane (2000) Baby entertainer, bumbling assistant and line manager: discourses of fatherhood in parentcraft texts. Discourse and Society, 11 (2). pp. 249-274. ISSN 0957-9265
Other Interests and Hobbies
My small but wonderful family: my partner Graham and my daughter (18) Emily. Theatre - I enjoy all types of theatre, including musicals and amateur dramatics. I write reviews of Lancaster productions (the Dukes Theatre, the Grand, productions at the Gregson) for Virtual Lancaster (http://www.lancasterukonline.net/). I recently completed an MA in Theatre Studies (Manchester University), which I managed by doing it part-time (2007-9). This included the production of a one-woman show about the later stages of Charlotte Bronte's life, based on her letters (Charlotte Bronte and Arthur Bell Nicholls).A different version of this now exists as a script of a TV play /film.
I am also a member of a haiku reading and writing group, the Yorkshire-Lancashire Haiku Circle, and we took a 'Performance-Workshop', 'Haiku for Kids', up to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2007. I attend a reading group every six weeks where I enjoy the very scattered nature of discussion (not like a seminar at all). Lastly, spending time in Edinburgh, and walking in the Lake District, though I don't do as much as I would like to here.
I was selected as a member of the Edinburgh Waterstones 'members of the public' reading group to help judge the Guardian First Book Award (Sept. - Oct. 2010). http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/guardianfirstbookaward
Associated Keywords: Academic discourse, Africa, Children's literature, Discourse analysis, Gender, Gender and language education, Multimodalities, Sociolinguistics
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