Dr. Susan Mandala
MPhil (Cambridge), PhD (Cambridge)
Senior Lecturer
Location:
Priestman Building
Phone: 0191 5152184
Email:
susan.mandala@sunderland.ac.uk
Biography
Dr Mandala was awarded her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2002. After a two-year lectureship at Royal Holloway (University of London), she moved to the University of Sunderland in 2000, and is now senior lecturer in language and literature. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in literary stylistics, covering a wide range of genres including modern drama, science fiction and fantasy, regional fiction, and world literatures.
Selected Publications
Books
Mandala, S. 2010. Language in Science Fiction and Fantasy: The Question of Style. Continuum. (ISBN 9 7818 4706 3014).
Mandala, S. 2007. Twentieth Century Drama Dialogue as Ordinary Talk: Speaking between the Lines. Ashgate Press. (ISBN 0 7546 5105 3).
Chapters in Books
Mandala, S. 2011. `Star Trek Voyager's Seven of Nine: A Case Study of Language and Character in a Televisual Text' in Piazza, R., Rossi, F., and Bednarek, M. (eds.). Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the Language of Films and Television Series. Pragmatics and Beyond New Series 211. John Benjamins. 225-247. (ISBN 978 90 272 5615 7).
Mandala, S. 2008. `Representing the Future: Chinese and Codeswitching' in Wilcox, R. and Cochran, T. (eds.). 2008. Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. London: I.B. Tauris. 31-40. (ISBN 978 1 84511 654 5).
Mandala, S. 2000. `Talk in the Mind: Scripted Dialogues and Mental Scripts', in Coulthard, M., Cotteril, J. and Rock, F. (eds.) Working with Dialogue (347-360) Tubingen: Max Neimeyer Verlag. (ISBN 3-484-75022-7).
Articles
Mandela, S. 2007. 'Solidarity and The Scoobies: An Analysis of the -y Suffix in the Television Series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.' Language and Literature 16 (1): 53-73
Mandela, S. 1999. 'Exiting advice.' Pragmatics and Language Learning. 9: 89-111.
Invited Reviews
Mandela, S. 2011. HUGO BOWLES. Storytelling and Dreama: Exploring Narrative Episodes in Plays. Linguistic Approaches to Literature (LAL) Volume 8. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2010. Pp. + 216 $143.00 (Hb). Reviewed by Dr Susan Mandela, University of Sunderland. Modern Drama. 54 (1)
Mandala, S. 2011. The Construction of a Period Dialect: The Language of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and its Sources by Adrian Pablé 2007. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Tier (Fokus, Linguistisch-Philologische Studien, Band 32), pp. xvi+177. ISBN 9783884769430 (pbk). Language and Literature. 20 (1): 73-84.
