I am an Associate Professor in English Language and Linguistics and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (SFHEA). My current role is Departmental Study Abroad co-ordinator. 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: English Literature, Creative Writing and Media and Communication, where I apply my expertise in English language and linguistics to my teaching. 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. 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 and material design began in these earlier years.
My teaching, research and publications are mainly in literary and non-literary stylistics; media discourses; 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 also published in this area.
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/. I am also a representative for the Learned Societies for English: Shared Futures
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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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