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[forthwritten]

If you'd like to introduce yourself you can do so here. What's your subject area? What are your research and/or teaching interests? What do you do to relax?

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[forthwritten]

I'm a PhD student working on the media representation of the British suffragist movement in The Times newspaper. I'm actually a linguist by training and am using corpus linguistics as an approach. Basically, I look at large amounts of (machine-readable) texts and look for frequent patterns in them - at the moment I'm working on suffrag* + direct action term constructions. I got into it because of my interest in how disempowered groups are portrayed by the press, especially when they're campaigning for rights.

More generally, my interests are in gender and sexuality - especially LGBT issues, minority groups, and digital humanities.

So, hi!