Dr. Angela Smith
BA MA PhD
Reader
Location:
Priestman Building, City Campus
Phone: 0191 515 2157/3192/2395/2201
Email:
angela.smith@sunderland.ac.uk
Biography
Angela Smith is Reader in Language and Culture at Sunderland, where she has worked since 2001. She also worked as a visiting lecturer at Northumbria University 2003 and assistant A-level examiner for Edexcel 2002-3. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of sociolingustics and educational linguistics. She has particular interests in issues of gender, media discourses and children's fictions.
Currently, Angela is PI for an AHRC bid to explore the Kate Adie Collection that is held at the University. She is also a member of the Ross Priory Broadcast Talk Group, an international group which is looking at changes in broadcast news, and is part of a collaborative project looking at confrontation in broadcast talk. She is also co-editor of the I.B. Tauris 'Gender in Popular Culture' library, with Dr Clarie Nally at the University of Northumbria.
Selected Publications
Books
The Language of Journalism: a multi genre approach. Bloomsbury. Co-written with Michael Higgins. (forthcoming 2012)
Discourses Surrounding British Widows of the First World War. Bloomsbury. (forthcoming 2012)
Edited books
Naked Exhibitionism: gendered performance and public exposure. I.B. Tauris. Co-edited with Claire Nally. (forthcoming 2012)
Book chapters
'Pitied but Distrusted: a critical discourse analysis of British widows of the First World War'. Quaderns de Filologia, Estudis Linguistics. Vol. V11 (2002) 145-61.
'Top Gear as a bastion of male heterosexuality' in Ross, K and Allen, P (ed) (2008) Popular Media and communication: essays on publics, practices and processes. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
'Tabloid television' entry for Encyclopedia of Journalism Vol 4: 1365-1368, ed Christopher Sterling (Sage: November 2009 978-0-7619-2957-4).
'Femininity Repackaged: Post feminism in Ladette to Lady' in ed.Stacey Gillis and Melanie Waters, Women on Screen. Palgrave 2011.
'From girl power to lady power' in Nally and Smith (eds), Naked Exhibitionism. I.B. Tauris (2012)
Journal Articles
'Paddington Bear: a case study of immigration and Otherness' Children's Literature in Education (Vol37, No 1, March 2006).
'Son of the manse or new man: Gordon Brown as a reluctant celebrity father' British Politics, 2008, 3 (556-575).
'The girl behind the man behind the gun: women as carers in recruitment posters of the First World War' - Journal of War and Culture Studies, 2009, 1:3 (223-241).
'Lifestyle televesion programmes and the construction of expert host', European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2010, 13(2), 191-205
'Discourses of morality and truth in social welfare: the surveillance of British widows of the First World War', Social Semiotics (forthcoming 2010).
'Not one of U.S.: Kate Adie's report of the 1986 U.S. bombing of Tripoli and its critical aftermath. Journalism Studies (2011) Vol.12, No.3 (co-written with Michael Higgins).
'"My husband; my hero": selling the political spouses in the 2010 general election', Journal of Political Marketing (forthcoming, 2012) co-written with Michael Higgins.
'Belligerent broadcasting and makeover television: professional incivility in Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares', International Journal of Cultural Studies (forthcoming, 2012), co-written with Michael Higgins, Martin Montgomery and Andrew Tolson
‘The convenient ambiguity of tone: Kate Adie’s reporting of the Dunblane massacre.’ Co-written with Michael Higgins. Journalism: theory, practice and criticism. (forthcoming 2012)
‘Strategy, evasion and development in the live two-way: Kate Adie reporting from the Saudi Desert in the 1991 Gulf War.’ (co-written with Michael Higgins) Journal of War and Culture Studies (forthcoming, 2012)
Guest journal editorship
Journal of War and Culture Studies, special issue on 'Reporting War', 2012.
Book series editorship
'Gender in Popular Culture' for I.B. Tauris.
