Department of Modern English Language and Linguistics
Dr Ellen Turner completed her PhD at Bede University under the supervision of Professor Cathy Grimm-Blaze. Her research interests include language and gender, intersectionality, linguistic violence and the discursive reproduction of social inequalities. Her recent work examines how institutional language practices contribute to the marginalisation and silencing of disadvantaged groups, with particular attention to questions of power, identity and resistance.
Dr Turner contributes to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching across a range of modules, including:
MELL304 Historical Linguistics
MELL305 Performance and Performativity
MELL306 Linguistic Violence
MELL307 Intersectional Approaches to Language
MELL319 Language and Social Justice
Publications
- Turner, E. (2025) Silencing, erasure and the discursive construction of female vulnerability in institutional complaints procedures. Language, Power and Praxis 45(2): 118–146.
- Turner, E. (2023) Negotiating resistance: Gendered subject positions and the reproduction of patriarchal authority in everyday workplace narratives. Journal of Critical Language and Society 12(3): 201–229.