Biography

I completed my BA studies in 2005 at Sydney University, with Honours in English and Semiotics. While studying Systemic Functional Grammar, I was involved in research grant projects using Multi-Modal Discourse Analysis to analyse facial affect and expression in children’s literature, and as a research assistant studying the semiotics of embodiment in public political discourse. I work particularly in the field of stylistics, which is the use of linguistics in literary analysis. My PhD examines three modalities of social construal and research: modernist poetry, functionalist and materialist linguistics and linguistic theory, and marxist and critical theory. I intend to analyse the poetry of Louis Zukofsky, the linguistic theories of Volosinov and Hjelmslev, and the marxian and critical theories of Lukacs and Jameson. After my PhD, I'd like to enter the academy to teach and research in this area.