I am Associate Professor in Linguistics in the Centre for Language in Social Life (CLSL). I specialize in discourse analysis from a systemic functional linguistic perspective.
My research topics include media and political discourse, educational linguistics and the study of verbal art. My theoretical interests include the relation of text to context, studies of texture and text structure, and the description of meaning from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics.
I research and supervise in discourse analysis of Spanish, including media and literary texts. More recently I have begun to work on bringing stylistics and translation theories together.
From 2005 to 2010, I was a Macquarie University Postdoctoral Fellow, studying the coverage of the 2003 ‘Coalition’ invasion of Iraq. In my PhD, I investigated the study of literature in high school, and the processes by which theoretical knowledge is recontextualised in syllabus documents and enacted in educational practices. I was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s commendation for a thesis of ‘exceptional merit’.
I curate the SFL linguists group on the video hosting site VIMEO (https://vimeo.com/groups/sfllinguists).
I write for Wikipedia. I have written or substantially contributed to a number of entries relating to linguistics, including those on Ferdinand de Saussure M.A.K. Halliday, Ruqaiya Hasan, and systemic functional linguistics .
Previously, I have worked in language and literacy education, as a teacher, materials writer and curriculum developer, with ESL and Aboriginal tertiary preparation students.
My research topics include media and political discourse, educational linguistics and the study of verbal art. My theoretical interests include the relation of text to context, studies of texture and text structure, and the description of meaning from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics.
I research and supervise in discourse analysis of Spanish, including media and literary texts. More recently I have begun to work on bringing stylistics and translation theories together.
From 2005 to 2010, I was a Macquarie University Postdoctoral Fellow, studying the coverage of the 2003 ‘Coalition’ invasion of Iraq. In my PhD, I investigated the study of literature in high school, and the processes by which theoretical knowledge is recontextualised in syllabus documents and enacted in educational practices. I was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s commendation for a thesis of ‘exceptional merit’.
I curate the SFL linguists group on the video hosting site VIMEO (https://vimeo.com/groups/sfllinguists).
I write for Wikipedia. I have written or substantially contributed to a number of entries relating to linguistics, including those on Ferdinand de Saussure M.A.K. Halliday, Ruqaiya Hasan, and systemic functional linguistics .
Previously, I have worked in language and literacy education, as a teacher, materials writer and curriculum developer, with ESL and Aboriginal tertiary preparation students.