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Members
Staff Members
Jane Sunderland
 Jane Sunderland is a Senior
Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and English Language and a National
Teaching 'Fellow'. She initiated the Research in Language, Gender and
Sexuality group many years ago under the title of 'Language and Gender in the
Classroom' and has continued to co-ordinate it since then. She convenes and
teaches on the MA and PhD course 'Gender and Language' and supervises PhD
students working in the area of gender and language. Her monograph
publications include 'Language, Gender and Children's Fiction' (2011) and
'Gendered Discourses' (2004). Her current interests include gender and language
in African contexts, picturebooks featuring gay
parents (including multimodal analysis), and the Harry Potter series and
boys' literacies. Jane's main administrative responsibility is Director of
Studies of the 'PhD in Applied Linguistics by Thesis and Coursework'
programme in the Department.
E-mail: J.Sunderland@lancaster.ac.uk
Staff Website
Paul Baker
 Paul Baker is a Reader in the Department who
teaches corpus linguistics. He has written a number of books including Sexed Texts: Language, Gender and
Sexuality (2008), Using
Corpora in Discourse Analysis (2006), Public Discourses of Gay Men (2003), Hello Sailor
(co-authored with Jo Stanley) (2003), Polari:
The Lost Language of Gay Men (2002) and Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay
Slang (2002). He has been a member of GAL since 1997 and is
currently working on corpus based approaches to discourse analysis.
E-mail: p.baker@lancaster.ac.uk Staff
Website
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.
E-mail: j.unger@lancs.ac.uk Staff Website
Veronika
Koller
 Veronika Koller's main
research interests are in the fields of Critical Discourse Analysis and
cognitive semantics, which she has combined in her study of Metaphor and Gender in Business
Media Discourse (Palgrave 2004). In her book Lesbian discourses: images of a community (Routledge 2008), Veronika has developed
a framework for analysing collective identity in discourse, combining
socio-cognitive and discourse-historical approaches. She applies this
framework in her current work, which addresses the cognitive and discursive
structure of corporate brands.
E-mail: v.koller@lancaster.ac.uk
Staff Website
Students & Visiting Researchers
Federica Formato
 Federica obtained her BA at University of Naples LOrientale and a Masters in Spanish and English
Linguistics at the University of Bologna (Italy) in 2008. After working and
living abroad for few years, she recently settled in Lancaster where she is studying
as a part-time PhD student. Her area of research is language and gender in
politics. She is investigating forms of address, the use of the pronoun We,
discourses of orientation to gender and war metaphors in the Italian
parliament. She is also working towards the re-definition of the
'double-bind' for female politicians in the intriguing and unexplored Italian
context. She has presented at DIS Discourse, Ideology and Society in March
2011 and at ILINC- Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference in Belfast in
October 2011. She is interested in attending and presenting at conferences
and research groups on language, gender and politics.
Alexandra Polyzou
Alexandra Polyzou
graduated from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and joined the
Linguistics Department in 2003 when she did her MA in Language Studies. Her
interests include Critical Discourse Analysis, Cognitive Metaphor Theory and
the application of both to Gender and Language Studies. For her MA
dissertation she investigated gendered metaphors in 'Nitro', a Greek men's
lifestyle magazine.
E-mail: a.polyzou@lancaster.ac.uk
Mark McGlashan
Mark is a PhD student in the department of
Linguistics and English Language. He is looking at the construction of
same-sex parents in childrens books and is supervised by Jane Sunderland.
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.
Abolaji
S. Mustapha
Abolaji S. Mustapha is a Senior Lecturer in the
Department of English, Lagos State University, Lagos,
Nigeria. He has a number of publications on gender and language in journals
and chapters in books including Being Male and Female in Nigerian Evangelicalism: Saying Thank
you In Allyson, Jule
(ed.) Language and Religious Identity: Women in Discourse. He has written a book from doctoral
dissertation titled Gender in Language Use. He is currently a British
Academy Visiting Scholar at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
conducting research on gender representations in English Language Textbooks
for Junior Secondary Students in Nigeria.
Email: abolajimustapha@hotmail.com;
Webpage www.shu.ac.uk/research/hrc/visiting-profs.html
Past Members
Mercedes Bengoechea
Mercedes Bengoechea is Senior
Lecturer in Sociolinguistics (Universidad de Alcal,
Spain). She was Dean of the Faculty of Humanities (2003-2008). Her research
on  language and gender has focused on denouncing, on
the one hand, the sexist usage of the language in the Spanish media and, on
the other hand, normative linguistic policies and dictionaries of Spanish.
She has also led proposals for non-sexist use of Spanish. She is a member of
IGALA (International Gender and Language Association) Advisory Board; member
of the Advisory Language Committee of the Instituto de la Mujer, NOMBRA (Ministry of Social Affairs) since 1994; member
of the Experts Committee on Gender and Childhood for the Institute of the
National Spanish Television (Instituto Oficial de Radio
Televisión Española) since 2005; and was the co-ordinator of the
2006 Report of the Spanish National Observatory on Gender Violence. Currently, she is a visiting scolar in the
Department of Linguistics and English Language in Lancaster University.
Email: mercedes.bengoechea@uah.es
 Grace Bota
Grace Bota was a PhD
student at the Department of Linguistics and English Language until 2011. Her
research was on Gender, Language and identity construction about Ghanaians in
the Diaspora. She also worked on gender, politics, language and the media -
with a specific interest in the Liberian elections (a CDA approach).
Sally
Johnson
Sally Johnson was a senior lecturer in the
Linguistics and English Language department and a member of GaL between 1997 and 2004.
Martha Jones
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.
Email: martha.jones@nottingham.ac.uk
Homepage: http://www.cele.nottingham.ac.uk/lookup/profile_disp.php?id=mj
Catherine Kitetu
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.
Email: zuraida@um.edu.my
Homepage: http://umexpert.um.edu.my/cv_papar.php?id=3c82a1dfaeabf71e6057589908045c65
Lem Lilian Atanga
Lem Lilian Atanga was
a research student in the Department and worked in the general area of
language, gender and power. Her specific research interests are in gendered discourses
in political settings in Cameroon.
zge ağlar
zge ağlar was 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
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 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.
 Maryam Paknahad Jabarooty
Maryam Paknahad Jabarooty was a PhD student in
the department from 2007-2012 and also maintained the GaL
website until 2012. Her research interests included language, gender,
cyberspace and Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis. She researched
gender construction in online contexts using Feminist Post-structuralist Dicourse Analysis
(FPDA).
Susan Qiong
He
Susan Qiong He was 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.
E-mail: hqwuhan@hotmail.com
Surinderpal Kaur
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 womens representations in terms of sex in the text
and viewers responses. She graduated in 2007.
Juliane Schwarz
Juliane Schwarzs 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 Students
Dictionary (Gender in Lexicography: An Empirical Case Study), as well as
cyber-feminism, for which she participated in a project during the
International Womens University (IFU) in summer 2000. She graduated in 2006.
E-mail: js-bham@gmx.net
Stephanie Suhr
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. She graduated in 2004.
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