Edited books:

I am currently working on a co-edited volume titled Discourses of austerity: Economists and linguists in an interdisciplinary critical analysis, with Tanweer Ali & Eva Lebdušková.


Articles/book chapters:

  • 2017. “Weight Watchers, caffeine and how she named her dog after former New York mayor: Media representations of the first female Anglican Bishop in the UK and Ireland.” Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies, 16(1) Article 6. Special issue on “The construction of Otherness in Ireland,” edited by E. Hidalgo-Tenorio. Available at: http://arrow.dit.ie/ijass/vol16/iss1/6
  • 2015. “Eating Words: A discourse historical analysis of the public debate over India’s 2013 National Food Security Act.” On the Horizon. Special issue on “Language and Economics, edited by Tanweer Ali.
  • 2015. “Charity Chicks: A discourse-analytic study of religious self-identifications by rural Canadian Mormon women.” In Woo, T. (ed.) Women in Canada: Diasporic Religiosities and Cultural Identities. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, pp. 141-195.
  • 2015. “Religion, power and public self-representation.” In Jule, A. (ed) Shifting Visions: Gender and Discourses. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 49-68.
  • 2014. “Talking sexuality: Religious identity construction in rural Canada” in Shipley, H. (ed.) Globalized Religion and Sexual Identity: Contexts, Contestations, Voices. Leiden: Brill, pp. 62-85.
  • 2014. “Investigating religious ‘identity’: The promise and problem of discourse analytic methods for religious studies inquiries,” Fieldwork in Religion 8(1)7-26.
  • 2006. “Breaking the golden rule: The public discussion of religion – An Australian case study.” ARC: The Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, 34:3-22.

Working papers:

  • 2012. “Talking religion: Talking sex.” Geographies of Religion Working Paper Series. School of Geography, Politics and Sociology. Newcastle University, UK.

Book/film reviews:

  • 2016. Book Review of ‘Contemporary Critical Discourse Studies, edited by Christopher Hart and Piotr Cap.’ Discourse & Society.
  • 2015. Book Review of ‘Language, Sex and Social Structure: Analyzing Discourses of Sexuality, by Jodie Clark.’ Discourse & Society 26(4): 511-513.
  • 2011. Book Review of ‘Lesbian discourse: Images of a Community, by Veronika Koller.’ Critical Discourse Studies 8(4).
  • 2010. Film Review of ‘Julie and Julia [Motion Picture]. USA: Columbia Pictures.’ Women and Language 33(1):125-126.
  • 2007. Book Review of ‘A Theology of Engagement: Challenges in Contemporary Theology, by Ian S. Markham,’ Australian Religious Studies Review 20(2): 252.
  • 2004. Book Review of ‘Medium or Message? Language and Faith in Ethnic Churches, by Anya Woods.’ ARC: The Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, 32:290-292.

Conference presentations:

  • March, 2017. “Scholarly and practical orientations in education research articles: A genre-based study,” co-presented with Anneke van Enk and Olivia Hornstein at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Portland, USA.
  • May, 2016. “Transgendered transitions: Apprentice academics reflecting on their adoption of scholarly identities via transgender research,” presented at the 9th International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) conference, City University, Hong Kong.
  • May, 2016. “Academic writing in the Faculty of Arts: Genre learning and knowledge transfer,” co-presented with Jaclyn Rea at the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (CASDW), University of Calgary.
  • May, 2016. “What is a research article?” co-presented with Anneke van Enk at the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (CASDW), University of Calgary.
  • December, 2015. “Religious elections discourse: A critical discourse analysis,” presented at The Fifth Biennial New Zealand Discourse Conference, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • September 2014. “MCA, DHA and PDA: A comparative analysis of one ♀ Bishop’s public self-presentation,” presented at the Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across the Disciplines (CADAAD) conference, Budapest, Hungary.
  • June 2014. “Moving in, moving out & staying put: Discursive constructions of nuanced religious community memberships in rural Canada,” presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 20, Jyväskylä, Finland.
  • June 2014. “Bishop Melissa: Gender, religion and public self-presentation,” presented at the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) conference, Vancouver, Canada.
  • March 2014. “Controversy, convergence and collaboration: Projecting socially sanctioned stances,” presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference, Portland, USA.
  • April 2011. “Talking religion: Talking sex,” presented at the Association of American Geographers’ (AAG) Annual Meeting, Seattle, USA.
  • April 2010. “Talking religion in rural Canada,” presented at The Changing Face of Christianity conference (University of Edinburgh), co-hosted by the British Sociological Association (Sociology of Religion Study Group) and the University of Edinburgh’s Institute of Geography and School of Divinity (Religious Studies/the Centre for the Study of World Christianity).
  • March 2010. “Talking religious identity,” presented at the Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion conference (The Royal Mint, London), co-hosted by the AHRC/ESRC “Religion and Society” program and NORFACE “Re-emergence of Religion as a Social Force in Europe?” research program.
  • July 2008. “Stance-taking on multiculturalism in rural Canada,” presented at the Encounters and Intersections conference (St. Catherine’s College, Oxford) co-hosted by the AHRC/ESRC “Religion and Society” program, the AHRC “Diasporas, Migration and Identities” program, and the ESRC “Identities and Social Action” program.
  • July 2007. “Faith, doubt and disbelief in rural Canada: A Critical Discourse Analysis of religious and multicultural interdiscursivity,” presented at the Theory, Faith, Culture conference, organized by the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University.

Invited lectures:

  • May 5-6, 2016. Guest lecture and public workshop at Simon Fraser University, Canada, in connection with the launch of Woo, T. (ed.) Women in Canada: Diasporic Religiosities and Cultural Identities. Wilfred Laurier University Press.
  • March, 2012. Guest lecture on Conversation Analysis, for ENGL 312a Discourse in Society at the University of British Columbia.