in brief, my academic interests are strongly infected/influenced by queer theory and queer activism.
identities, discourses, nationalisms, sexualities, and their un-forsee-able, constantly changin...
This book is for people who have free-floating guilt and low-level depression. Whenever something bad or uncomfortable happens between them and other people, they think, I must be at fault. I must...
Qualitative research exploring how addicts speak about heroin addiction and how their modes of representing their use can be implicated in trapping them in further use or allowing recovery. The st...
Variation in news narratives can provide the empirical testing ground for investigating news production processes, such as selecting and adapting input stories from external sources. In taking a co...
This paper explores the production strategies of the BBC and the impact they exert on the corporation’s news output, namely the coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We argue that the newsr...
This paper contributes to the study of the discursive mechanisms underlying news production by focusing on a novel and hybrid type of online press conference, i.e. one which allows for both live at...
This paper is a case study of reproductive newswriting, i.e. writing from sources. We offer a multimethod writing process analysis of a news article announcing the product launch of Apple TV on the...
In this paper, we sketch the contours of a linguistics of news production. Our aim is to bring linguistic analysis to bear on the discursive processes that shape the news product, and, in this way,...