Dr Marina Lambrou

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About

I am an Associate Professor in English Language and Linguistics and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (SFHEA). 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 two Departments: Humanities and Creative and Cultural Industries where I can apply my expertise in teaching, learning and research to a range of different courses. In June 2021, I was nominated for an Academic Impact Award for the 'Most engaging online teaching' with the core criteria being: ‘for a staff member's support during the covid-19 pandemic' who 'demonstrates innovative teaching methods away from face to face learning' and, who ‘exemplifies support provided in light of dramatic changes to teaching and daily life'.

I joined Kingston University in May 2008 having worked at several universities including Goldsmiths College (University of London) and Middlesex University where I taught across a range of UG and PG programmes. 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 teaching, research and publications are mainly in literary and non-literary stylistics; media discourses; narratology with a focus on personal and trauma narratives and more recently on disnarration and the counterfactual in fictional and factual texts. I am also interested in pedagogy to improve the teaching and learning experience.  

I am the current Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Society (PALA). https://www.pala.ac.uk/; and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Literary Semantics (JLS). I am also a representative for the Learned Societies for English: Shared Futures

Academic responsibilities

Associate Professor

Qualifications

  • PhD
  • Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults (DipELTA) , International House, London
  • MA in Applied Linguistics: Sociocultural Approaches , Goldsmith College, University of London
  • BA (Hons) in Communication Studies (Major), English & Literary Studies and TEFL , Middlesex University
  • RSA Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA) , International House

Teaching and learning

With many years of teaching and leading programmes in HE, I have a sustained record of teaching across numerous UG and PG programmes, including supervision at MA and PhD levels.

As Head of Department for Linguistics and Languages (January 2014-July 2017) I led four subject teams across the Department (English Language and Linguistics, French and Spanish, and English for Academic and Professional Development (EAPD)). As Course Leader for the BA English Language and Linguistics programme (previously English Language and Communication) I led the development of new courses including the Foundation year to provide students with exciting and creative learning opportunities in English language and linguistics.

I teach across two Departments. I apply my expertise to numerous programmes and ensure I provide the best learning experience through research-led teaching and tailoring classes to meet both the requirements of the course outline and student expectations. I have been described as an 'innovative' and 'supportive' tutor. 

Qualifications and expertise

  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (SFHEA)

Undergraduate courses taught

Postgraduate courses taught

Research

I conduct research in literary and non-literary stylistics; narratology, including disnarration, and personal and trauma narratives; media stylistics; and teaching pedagogy.

In 2010, I conducted ethnographic research in New York by interviewing survivors of the 9/11 attacks for a project on trauma narratives, part of which is mentioned in my TEDx talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcRpCa-_xTc (4,705 views at March 2021). I was attempting to understand how individuals are able to structure and make sense of their extra-ordinary experiences. I have also conducted research on survivors of London's 7/7 attacks. My research on trauma narratives has been published the following works:

Lambrou, M (ed.) (2020) Narrative Retellings: stylistic approaches. London: Bloomsbury.

Lambrou, M (2017) ‘Dialogism in Journalistic Discourse: Ian McEwan's Response to 7/7', in Mildorf, J. Thomas, B and (eds), Dialogue across Media. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp.137-154.

Lambrou, M (2014) ‘Narratives of trauma re-lived: the Ethnographer's Paradox and other tales'. In: Thomas, B and Round, J. (eds) Real Lives, Celebrity Stories: Narratives of Ordinary and Extraordinary People Across Media. London: Continuum. pp. 113-28.  

Lambrou, M (2014) ‘Narrative, Text and Time: telling the same story twice in the oral narrative reporting of 7/7'. ‘Narrative' Special issue, Language and Literature, 23(1), pp.32-48.

I have published widely, with four books and one forthcoming (2022), as well as peer reviewed journals and books chapters including:

Lambrou, M., Durant, A. and Montgomery (forthcoming 2021) Ways of Reading (5th edition). London: Routledge.

Lambrou, M (ed.) (2021) Narrative Retellings: stylistic approaches. London: Bloomsbury.

Lambrou, M (2019) Disnarration and the Unmentioned in Fact and Fiction. London: Palgrave.

Durant, A and Lambrou, M (2009) Language and Media: a resource book for students. Abingdon, U.K: Routledge. Lambrou, M and Stockwell, P, (eds). (2007) Contemporary Stylistics. London, U.K.: Continuum.

Lambrou, M and Stockwell, P, (eds). (2007) Contemporary Stylistics. London, U.K.: Continuum.

Areas of specialism

  • Stylistics
  • Narratology
  • Trauma narratives
  • Disnarration
  • Media stylistics

Scholarly affiliations

  • Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) - Chair
  • Journal of Literary Semantics (JLS) - Editor-in-Chief
  • International Conference on Narrative (ICN) - member
  • University Council for General and Applied Linguistics (UCGAL) - Council board member

Publications

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Number of items: 29.

Article

Lambrou, Marina (2021) Foreword. Journal of Literary Semantics, 50(1), p. 1. ISSN (print) 1613-3838

Lambrou, Marina (2020) The pedagogy of stylistics : enhancing practice by flipping the classroom, using whiteboards and action research. Language and Literature : International Journal of Stylistics, 29(4), pp. 404-423. ISSN (print) 0963-9470

Lambrou, Marina (2018) From alternative facts to tender age shelters : how euphemisms become political weapons of mass distraction. The Conversation,

Lambrou, Marina [Reviewer] (2017) Book review of: "Sylvia Plath and the language of affective states : written discourse and the experience of depression" by Zsofia Demjen. Language and Literature, 26(4), pp. 361-364. ISSN (print) 0963-9470

Lambrou, Marina (2016) Telling stories. Lingo: The Language Magazine for Young Readers, 1(3), pp. 22-23.

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Lambrou, Marina [Reviewer] (2014) Book review of: 'Corpus stylistics and Dickens's fiction' by Michaela Malhberg. English Language & Linguistics, 18(1), pp. 202-207. ISSN (print) 1360-6743

Lambrou, M. (2014) Narrative, text and time: telling the same story twice in the oral narrative reporting of 7/7. Language and Literature, 23(1), pp. 32-48. ISSN (print) 0963-9470

Lambrou, Marina (2003) Collaborative oral narratives of general experience: when an interview becomes a conversation. Language and Literature, 12(2), pp. 153-174. ISSN (print) 0963-9470

Book

Lambrou, Marina, ed. (2021) Narrative retellings : stylistic approaches. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury. 256p. (Advances in Stylistics) ISBN 9781350120020

Lambrou, Marina, Montgomery, Martin and Durant, Alan (2021) Ways of reading : advanced reading skills for students of English literature. 5th ed. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. (In Press)

Lambrou, Marina (2019) Disnarration and the unmentioned in fact and fiction. London, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. 140p. ISBN 9781137507778

Lambrou, Marina, ed. (2014) Narrative. Sage Journals. 98p. (Language and Literature, 23(1)) ISSN (print) 0963-9470

Durant, Alan and Lambrou, Marina (2009) Language and media: a resource book for students. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. 269p. (Routledge English Language Introductions) ISBN 9780415475747

Lambrou, Marina and Stockwell, Peter, eds. (2007) Contemporary stylistics. London, U.K. : Continuum. 287p. ISBN 9780826493859

Book Section

Lambrou, Marina (2021) Introduction to narrative retellings : stylistic approaches. In: Lambrou, Marina, (ed.) Narrative retelings : stylistic approaches. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury. pp. 1-19. (Advances in Stylistics) ISBN 9781350120020

Lambrou, Marina (2020) Metalepsis, counterfactuality and the forked path in 'The French Lieutenant's Woman'. In: Sorline, Sandrine, (ed.) Stylistic manipulation of the reader in contemporary fiction. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury. pp. 31-49. ISBN 9781350062979

Lambrou, Marina (2019) 'La La Land' : counterfactuality, disnarration and the forked (motorway) path. In: Page, Ruth , Busse, Beatrix and Norgaard, Nina, (eds.) Rethinking language, text and context : interdisciplinary research in stylistics in honour of Michael Toolan. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics) ISBN 9780815395768

Lambrou, Marina (2017) Dialogism in journalistic discourse : an analysis of Ian McEwan's "Savagely Awoken". In: Mildorf, Jarmila and Thomas, Bronwen, (eds.) Dialogue across media. Amsterdam, Netherlands : John Benjamins. pp. 137-154. (Dialogue Studies, (28)) ISSN (print) 1875-1792 ISBN 9789027210456

Lambrou, Marina (2016) Discourse stylistics. In: Sotirova, Violeta, (ed.) The Bloomsbury Companion to Stylistics. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury. pp. 92-108. (Bloomsbury companions) ISBN 9781441160058

Lambrou, Marina (2015) Pedagogical stylistics in an ELT teacher training setting: a case study. In: Teranishi, Masayuki , Saito, Yoshifumi and Wales, Katie, (eds.) Literature and Language Learning in the EFL Classroom. London, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 298-315. ISBN 9781137443656

Lambrou, Marina (2014) Narratives of trauma re-lived: the ethnographer's paradox and other tales. In: Thomas, Bronwen and Round, Julia, (eds.) Real lives and celebrity stories: narratives of ordinary and extraordinary people across media. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 113-128. ISBN 9781441102386

Lambrou, Marina (2014) Stylistics, conversation analysis and the cooperative principle. In: Burke, Michael, (ed.) The Routledge handbook of stylistics. London, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 136-154. (Routledge Handbooks in English Language Studies) ISBN 9780415527903

Lambrou, Marina and Durant, Alan (2014) The analysis of the media. In: Stockwell, Peter and Whitely, Sarah, (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics. Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press. pp. 503-519. (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics) ISBN 9781107028876

Lambrou, Marina (2011) Teaching non-literary stylistics. In: Jeffries, Lesley and McIntyre, Dan, (eds.) Teaching Stylistics. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. (Teaching the New English) ISBN 9780230235878

Lambrou, Marina and Stockwell, Peter (2007) Introduction: the state of contemporary stylistics. In: Lambrou, Marina and Stockwell, Peter, (eds.) Contemporary stylistics. London, U.K. : Continuum. pp. 1-4. ISBN 9780826493859

Lambrou, Marina (2007) Oral accounts of personal experiences: when is a narrative a recount? In: Lambrou, Marina and Stockwell, Peter, (eds.) Contemporary stylistics. London, U.K. : Continuum. pp. 195-208. ISBN 9780826493859

Lambrou, Marina (2007) Telling stories: males and females doing gender in personal narratives about trouble. In: Jeffries, Lesley , McIntyre, Dan and Bousfield, Derek, (eds.) Stylistics and social cognition: PALA 25. Amsterdam : Rodopi. pp. 125-139. (PALA, (4)) ISBN 9789042023123

Thesis

Lambrou, Marina (2005) Story patterns in oral narratives : a variationist critique of Labov and Waletzky's model of narrative schemas. (PhD thesis), Middlesex University, uk.bl.ethos.419746.

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Professional practice, knowledge exchange and impact

I am Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), an international association for those who work in stylistics, poetics, language and linguistics. PALA plays an important role in policy making as it is one of the eleven member associations of the University of General and Applied Linguistics (UCGAL), which provides a unified voice on public policy matters for linguistics within the UK higher education community. The Council promotes research, teaching and learning, and scholarship in general and applied linguistics; and promotes co-operation and co-ordination, and the sharing of expertise and good practice between institutions, learned societies, professional associations and related bodies in the area of general and applied linguistics.

Since January 2021, I have been Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Literary Semantics (De Gruyter) overseeing the production of two issues of the journal a year, from submission stage and review to acceptance. 

I am also a representative for the Learned Societies for English: Shared Futures. 

Leadership and management

Member of TECHNE Peer Review College (Subject Group D) for the University

Athena Swan lead for Promotion and Progression sub group for KSA

Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA)

Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Literary Semantics (JLS) published by De Gruyter

Head of Department for Linguistics and Languages (January 2014-August July 2017)

Course Leader for the BA English Language and Linguistics (2010-2017)

University responsibilities

  • Athena Swan lead for Promotion and Progression sub group
  • Member of the TECHNE Peer Review College (Subject Group D) for the University

Public and CIVIC roles

  • Consultant at Franklyn Scholars to improve literacy in schools through a mentoring scheme
  • Subject Consultant for AQA exam board. Review and advise on development of ‘A' level English Language and Literature specifications
  • Subject Consultant for EDEXCEL exam Board. Review and advise on development of ‘A' level English Language and Literature specifications

Videos of my work

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

Telling stories: Narratives as life experiences | TEDx Kingston Upon Thames

Telling stories: Narratives as life experiences | TEDx Kingston Upon Thames

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