Sally Johnson was a member of GaL between 1997 and 2004. She is currently the Head of the Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Leeds.
Martha Jones was a member of GaL. She is currently the Director of Studies (Teacher Training) at the Centre for English Language Education, University of Nottingham.
Catherine Kitetu was a member of Gal until 2003. She is currently the Chair of the Department of Languages and Linguistics at Egerton University, Kenya.
Zuraidah Mohd. Don
Zuraidah Mohd. Don was a member of Gal in 2004. She is currently the Head of the English Language Department, University of Malaya, Malaysia.
Lem Lilian Atanga is a research student in the Department and is working in the general area of language, gender and power. Her specific research interests are in gendered discourses in political settings in Cameroon.
Özge Çağlar is a PhD student interested in Discourse Analysis, Gender Issues and Language and Media. Curently, she is studying on the various aspects of doctor-patient interaction in Turkish.
Sibonile Edith Ellece has a BA in English (University of Botswana); a Post Graduate Diploma in Education (University of Botswana); and a MA in Language Studies (Lancaster University). She joined the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language (Lancaster University) as a research student in October 2003. Her research interests include Critical Discourse Analysis; Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis; Gender, Power and Language; and Feminist Stylistics. Her PhD research was entitled “The Language of Marriage Rituals in Botswana: a Linguistic cultural study”. She graduated in 2008.
John Heywood
John Heywood is a research student and part-time tutor in the Stylistics section of the Department. He is interested in the relationship between Language, Written Style, Gender, Sexuality and Desire. His PhD, (working title: 'Style and Discourse in STH Magazine') investigates how both 'non-fictionality' and 'masculinity' are realised in the rather small but imperfectly formed genre of male homosexual true-life experience pornographic narratives.
Susan Qiong He is a visiting research student from Wuhan University in China. She is interested in pragmatics,sociolinguistics,second language acquisition and Corpus Linguistics. Currently she is working on a comparative study of Chinese learner English corpus and a native English Corpus.
Surinderpal Kaur was a research student in the Department. Her research interests include gender and theatre, gender and cyberspace, performativity theory and feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis. She is currently researching the construction of gender identities in online chatrooms and message boards using the frameworks of CDA, FPDA and Performativity Theory. She graduated in 2008.
Konstantia Kosetzi
Konstantia Kosetzi, a graduate in English Language and Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2000), and an MA holder in Language Studies, Lancaster University, U.K. (2001), rejoined LAEL and Lancaster University in October 2004 for her PhD. Her academic interests are related to CDA, Gender and Language Studies and the media. Her M.A. dissertation was on ‘The Construction of Fatherhood in Greek Parenting Magazines’. Her PhD research was a Critical Discourse Analysis study, that adopts an ethnographic perspective of a Greek TV series in exploring women’s representations in terms of sex in the ‘text’ and viewers’ responses. She graduated in 2007.
Juliane Schwarz’s PhD research topic was: The Use and Meaning of Generic Pro-Forms. In this study she will be considering whether the use of generic pronouns has changed during the last 30 years, and if so, how and why? She is interested in language change and the impact of feminist critique on language use and perception. Other interests are gender in lexicography, which was the subject of her MA thesis in which she examined the ‘Collins COBUILD Student’s Dictionary’ (‘Gender in Lexicography: An Empirical Case Study’), as well as cyber-feminism, for which she participated in a project during the International Women’s University (IFU) in summer 2000. She graduated in 2006.
Stephanie Suhr joined the 'Gender and Language research group' in spring 1999 as a research student studying away from Lancaster. She is interested in discourse analysis and identity politics. Her PhD looked at the phenomenon of 'political correctness' on the basis of newspaper corpora and aimed to identify sexist, racist and heterosexist discourses.
Johnny Unger
Johnny Unger is primarily interested in the characterisation of Scots speakers in contemporary fiction, and pursuing his PhD investigating this topic. He has recently written a paper on gender stereotyping in 'Shrek', a contemporary animated film, and hopes to continue this line of investigation. His other interests include the public debate surrounding parental rights.
