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Dr Fransina Stradling

@fstradling.bsky.social
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PhD in Cognitive Stylistics (empathy with fictional characters)

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Dr Fransina Stradling @fstradling.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Happy to share this is now out!
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Dr Paula Ghintuiala @paulaghintuiala.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Episode 1 of Season 2 of The PALA Podcast was released! You can find it anywhere you listen to your podcasts! If interested in the place of emotion in pedagogy, give it a listen! 🎵🎤🎧 @palapoeticsling.bsky.social @polinagavin.bsky.social @meganmansworth.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0x61...
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Season 2 Episode 1 Pedagogical Stylistics
The PALA Podcast · Episode
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Naomi Adam @naomiadam.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The secret is out! A wonderful tribute to Professor Stylistics himself, and so delighted to be a small part of it.
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Dr Fransina Stradling @fstradling.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I got to proofread Naomi's chapter about empathy (of course) with ghosts and it was... Phantastic 👻
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Naomi Adam @naomiadam.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
@fstradling.bsky.social and I have been busy browsing through a brilliant range of recently published work in stylistics. We’ve broken it down into bite-sized chunks here: academic.oup.com/ywes/advance... Added bonus – it’s open access! 🥳
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Chapter I. English Language: 14. Stylistics
Surely there is no better sign of a discipline’s dynamism than the continual updating of its seminal texts. In 2023, this proved the case for stylistics, w
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Naomi Adam @naomiadam.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Looking to immerse yourself in a book about immersing yourself in books? Well, look no further! ‘Immersion’ is here 👇 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-immersi...
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Dr Fransina Stradling @fstradling.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Going to be a little busy the coming time trying to work out what this thing called parenting means, so anything academic is on hold for now 👋
Two parents' hands envelop a baby's hand, whose left and partial face are also visible.
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Dr Fransina Stradling @fstradling.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Happily posing as a new Dr after my PhD viva yesterday, and an elated call with a proud supervisor a minute later 🎉 Thanks to Marian Martínez & Shona Bettany for a pleasant discussion, @louisenuttall.bsky.social for 7 years of superb supervision, & Liz Towns-Andrews for being the best academic mum!
Four smiling academics in a university building. From left to right: Marian Martínez, Liz Towns-Andrews, Fransina Stradling and Shona Bettany. A screenshot of a video call between Louise Nuttall and Fransina Stradling, both smiling.
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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Temporary post at Nottingham - Teaching Associate in Applied LInguistics. Come and work with us in @uonenglish.bsky.social! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Teaching Associate/Teaching Assistant in Applied Linguistics (full-time, FTC)
Do you have teaching specialisation in Applied Linguistics?  We are looking to appoint either a Teaching Assistant or Teaching Associate to work in our team in the School of English. You would join us...
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Dr Fransina Stradling @fstradling.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Well, that's that! PhD submitted 🥳 A full circle moment to do so with @kpager1.bsky.social present - I got to be there when she submitted hers, and now she was there for me! 🥰
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Dr Fransina Stradling @fstradling.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
It's undoubtedly exciting when someone cites your work, but how should you feel when the claim it's used for is not actually made in your article? 🤔
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PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
PALA is thrilled to finally be on Blue Sky!! Feel free to follow and/or suggest followees! 🥳🎉
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Chloe Harrison @chloeharrison.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
🌟Publication day🌟 My new book, The Language of Margaret Atwood, is now available. This has been a Project and a Half, so a big thank you to friends and colleagues for the support along the way! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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The Language of Margaret Atwood
This book explores Margaret Atwood’s use of language and style across a selection of her prose texts, through reader-centred, cognitive stylistic analyses.
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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Here is a Babel starter pack - the Babel team, Babel Lecturers, and linguists who have written for Babel! go.bsky.app/8er96Fh
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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
🧑‍🏫 Teachers! 👨‍🏫 📚 Grab a set of free Babel issues 📚 📧 babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com 📧
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Joanna Gavins @joannagavins.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
Come and work at the University of Sheffield! Research Associate in corpus linguistics needed for a project on Kazuo Ishiguro. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGF991/r...
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Research Associate at University of Sheffield
Apply for the Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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Sven Strasen @svenstrasen.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
Come and work with us at RWTH Aachen. Full Professorship (W2) in Empirical Reader Response Studies and English Literary Studies at the English Department and the Aachen Center for Cognitive and Empirical Literary Studies. For details go to the ACCELS site accels.rwth-aachen.de/cms/accels/d...
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Job Openings - RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY ACCELS - English
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Stephen Pihlaja @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Come join us for the Aston Stylistics Research Group Applied Stylistics Symposium in January! Registration open now!
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Aston Stylistics Research Group Applied Stylistics Conference 2024 | Aston University Online Store
This is the fourth 'Applied Stylistics' symposium. Our one-day conference showcases research in applied stylistics across a number of different contexts. T
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Dr Fransina Stradling @fstradling.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Really excited to share that an article I wrote with the excellent Dr Valerie Hobbs on conversion narrative in the #biomimicry movement is out now! #ecolinguistics #religiouslanguage www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Dr Fransina Stradling @fstradling.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
I think the publication of a special issue that I co-guest edited with Carolina Fernandez-Quintanilla for the Journal of Literary Semantics is a great occasion for a first post! 🎉 Check out our special issue on Stylistic Approaches to Narrative Empathy here 👇🏻 www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...
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Special Issue: Narrative Empathy; Guest Editors: Carolina Fernandez-Quintanilla and Fransina Stradli...
Volume 52, issue 2 of the journal Journal of Literary Semantics was published in 2023.
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