I am an Associate Professor in English Language and Linguistics and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (SFHEA). I am Course Leader for BA Creative Writing and BA Creative Writing and Film Cultures. Other roles include Departmental Study Abroad co-ordinator, Departmental level 4 Personal Tutorial Co-ordinator, and Module Leader for the PGR Teaching and Learning in the Arts module. Previously, I was Head of Department of Linguistics and Languages and Course Director for BA English Language and Linguistics.
I currently teach and supervise on UG and PG courses across Creative Writing and English Literature where I apply my expertise in English language and linguistics, specifically in stylistics, narratology and teaching pedagogy to research-led teaching and to help students develop their creative writing skills.
I joined Kingston University in May 2008 having worked at several universities, including Goldsmiths College (University of London) and Middlesex University. Prior to teaching at HE level, I was the Evening Director/ Director of Studies at International House, Language School, London, and managed the evening school after having taught general ELT and Cambridge exam courses for many years. My love of teaching began in these earlier years.
My teaching, research and publications are in literary and non-literary stylistics; narratology - focusing on personal and trauma narratives and the storytelling dimensions of disnarration and counterfactuality in fictional and factual narratives; and media stylistics. I am also interested in teaching pedagogy to enhance learning and have published in this area too.
I am Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Literary Semantics (JLS) and a previous Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Society (PALA). https://www.pala.ac.uk/. In February 2023, I was appointed as a QAA Advisory Group member for Creative Writing to review and produce the new Subject Benchmark Statement (23-24).
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Marina examines the power of narrative in all its forms and how they help us to make sense of the world and our place in it whether at the level of the personal, national or cultural. Marina also talks about the basic story form and what makes a
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