CONFERENCE PROGRAMME > Keynote Speakers
Our conference plenary speakers will be:
Ian Cushing
Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K.
A raciolinguistic perspective on prescriptivism in schools
Dr Ian Cushing is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he teaches on programmes concerning critical sociolinguistics, language and social justice, and language in education policy. His research examines how language ideologies and policies cause harm to marginalised communities in schools, and how these are shaped by the long histories of colonialism, anti-Blackness and white supremacy. He works closely with teachers and students in designing anti-racist approaches to language policy. His work has appeared in journals including Language in Society, Race Ethnicity & Education, Language Policy, and Critical Inquiry in Language Studies.
Jane HODSON
University of Sheffield, U.K.
Jane Hodson is Professor of English Language and Literature and Head of School at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests lie at the interface of language and literature, and she is particularly concerned with the way in which style is contested at an ideological level. Her current research focuses on the ways in which nonstandard varieties of English are represented in literature, film and television. Recent publications include Dialect in Literature and Film (2014), the edited volume Dialect and Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century (2017) and articles in English Language and Linguistics and Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics.
Nuria Yanez-Bouza
University of Vigo, Spain
Nuria Yáñez-Bouza is Senior Lecturer at the University of Vigo (Spain) and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester (UK). Her research interests lie in historical sociolinguistics with a focus on the eighteenth-century grammar writing tradition (Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English. Preposition Placement 1500-1900, CUP 2015; The Eighteenth-Century English Grammars Database), pronouncing dictionaries (The Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database) and letter-writing practices (Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers). She acted as Chair of the 6th Prescriptivism Conference held in Vigo in 2021, and is the chief editor of the volume New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research (forthcoming, Multilingual Matters). She has been actively involved in the field of Digital Humanities with the compilation of multi-register historical corpora and databases. She is currently a member of the ICAME Board and of the Editorial Board of the journal English Language and Linguistics.
