Major Research Areas

The Department has an active research culture and strives to connect research with teaching. Staff members are active in international research communities and also aim to benefit local communities through knowledge transfer.

 

Linguistics and language studies
  • Corpus linguistics
  • Critical discourse analysis
  • Discourse analysis
  • Discourse and popular culture mediated by technologies
  • English phonetics and phonology
  • Health communication
  • History of linguistics
  • Language and new media
  • Language ideologies
  • Linguistic landscapes
  • Metaphor studies
  • Second language pronunciation
  • Sociolinguistics and online identity
  • World Englishes

 

Literature
  • Aesthetics and politics
  • American literature
  • American studies
  • Contemporary fiction, drama and poetry
  • Comparative history of the novel
  • Critical theories
  • Cross-cultural studies of literature
  • Global literatures in English
  • History of criticism
  • Holocaust representation
  • Literatures of the Asian Diaspora
  • Poetry and politics
  • Postcolonial theory and fiction
  • Tragedy and discourse on tragedy
  • Transpacific literature
  • Twentieth-century US literature