I am an Associate Professor in English Language and Linguistics and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (SFHEA). I am Course Leader for BA Creative Writing and BA Creative Writing and Film Cultures. I am also the Departmental Study Abroad co-ordinator, Departmental level 4 Personal Tutorial Co-ordinator, and Module Leader for the PGR Teaching and Learning in the Arts module. Previously, I was Head of Department of Linguistics and Languages and Course Director for BA English Language and Linguistics. I currently teach and supervise on UG and PG courses across several subject areas including English Literature, Creative Writing and Media and Communication, where I apply my expertise in English language and linguistics to my teaching.
I joined Kingston University in May 2008 having worked at several universities, including Goldsmiths College (University of London) and Middlesex University. Prior to teaching at HE level, I was the Evening Director/ Director of Studies at International House, Language School, London, and managed the evening school after having taught general ELT and Cambridge exam courses for many years. My love of teaching began in these earlier years.
My teaching, research and publications are mainly in literary and non-literary stylistics; media discourses; and narratology - focusing on personal and trauma narratives. My recent work is on disnarration and the counterfactual in fictional and factual texts. I am also interested in learning and teaching pedagogy and have published in this area too.
I am Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Literary Semantics (JLS) and stepped down as Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Society (PALA) in December 2021. https://www.pala.ac.uk/. In February 2023, I was appointed as a QAA Advisory Group member to review and produce the new Subject Benchmark Statement for Creative Writing (23-24).
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Marina examines the power of narrative in all its forms and how they help us to make sense of the world and our place in it whether at the level of the personal, national or cultural. Marina also talks about the basic story form and what makes a
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