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Naomi Adam

Teaching Associate in Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Arts

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Biography

I work as a Teaching Associate in Applied Linguistics in the University of Nottingham's School of English, specialising in Stylistics (Literary Linguistics).

My research interests span contemporary fiction, cognitive poetics, fictional ontologies and fictolinguistics.

Having acted as Graduate Impact Assistant on the 'COVID-19 CARE: Culture and the Arts, from Restriction to Enhancement: Protecting Mental Health in the Liverpool City Region' project, I am also interested in the real-world, cognitive benefits of fictional prose.

Expertise Summary

My work has appeared in Language and Literature, the Journal of Literary Semantics and the Conversation, among other publications.

Teaching Summary

I teach on a range of in-person, digital and hybrid modules spanning the subjects of linguistics and literature. Currently, these include: Studying Language (ENGL1002); Essentials of English… read more

Research Summary

Passionate about melding the study of language with the study of literature in all its forms, I have a particular interest in contemporary, award-winning fiction, fictolinguistics, and the… read more

Recent Publications

I am currently acting as the Interim Newsletter Editor of Parlance, the biannual publication of the Poetics and Linguistics Association. Further details and past issues can be found at: http://www.pala.ac.uk/parlance.

I am also incumbent Production Manager for the Journal of Languages, Texts and Society (LTS), Volume 7. Discover more at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/languagestextssociety/lts-journal/lts-journal.aspx.

I teach on a range of in-person, digital and hybrid modules spanning the subjects of linguistics and literature. Currently, these include: Studying Language (ENGL1002); Essentials of English (ENGL1013); Literary Linguistics (ENGL2017); Literary Linguistics [Distance Learning] (ENGL4247).

I have previous experience teaching on the modules 'Introduction to Stylistics (ENGL105)', 'Attitudes to English (ENGL106)' and 'Language and Literature (ENGL383)' in the Department of English at the University of Liverpool.

Current Research

Passionate about melding the study of language with the study of literature in all its forms, I have a particular interest in contemporary, award-winning fiction, fictolinguistics, and the worlds-based theories of cognitive poetics.

I am currently compiling the 'Stylistics' chapter of the Year's Work in English Studies (YWES) alongside Fransina Stradling (University of Huddersfield).

Past Research

My AHRC-funded doctoral thesis was entitled: '[C]onstantly supposing': A text-possible approach to Hypothesis and the Metaperspective in [Man] Booker Prize-winning novels 2000-2020. This research suggested the efficacy of combining the heretofore discrete application of Text World Theory and possible worlds theory in the service of textual analysis. Alongside this, the thesis introduced the concept of the metaperspective - my view of the other's view of me - to the study of the language of literature. A monograph based upon this research is currently under review with Bloomsbury (Advances in Stylistics series).

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