Dr Anna Charalambidou

Biography

I am the Director of Media Programmes and Senior Lecturer in English Language, at the School of Design of Middlesex University. Before moving to Middlesex in 2015, I worked at the European University of Cyprus, University of Surrey, Swansea University and King's College London.

My research interests are in discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. I have mainly worked with Greek Cypriot data, but my work and publications are positioned in the broader fields of interactional approaches to language and identities research, and especially language and ageing. 

I currently work on the Grenglish project, documenting the unique variety of mainly first-generation London’s Cypriot Greek speakers, which includes borrowing English words and incorporating them into the Cypriot Greek grammatical system. I am also the co-investigator in the Migrant food, languages, and identities in the dawn of the post-Brexit and COVID-19 era project with collaborators from Universities of Westminster, Salerno (Italy), Goldsmiths and Ohio State.

Teaching

I enjoy teaching undergraduate and postgraduate modules in language and communication, research methods and entrepreneurship.

I  currently supervise postgraduate researchers, who work in a range of areas, from PhDs in language and communication to transcidisciplinary doctorates by professional practice. Their topics include:

• Producing and perceiving students’ requests in social media messaging: A case study of institutional contexts in Thailand;
• Multilingual practices in a Japanese supplementary school in London;
• Effects of metacognitive reading strategy instruction on L2 reading comprehension and motivation: A meta-analysis and a teaching intervention;
• An exploration of the double-consciousness through the production of speech in its own image;
• OuLiPo for a New Generation: to what extent can digital media, constrained techniques, and fantasy tropes come together to engage young adults in deconstructed experimental fiction as demonstrated through my interactive fiction, Without E?
• Humanify Leadership in the Anthropocene.

I am delighted to have supervised the following researchers who have now successfully completed their doctorates: 

1.     Dr Kyu Hyun Park (Northumbria 2022) “Relevance Theory and the Pragmatics of Production”

2.     Dr Tricia Jenkins (Middlesex 2021) “’What is my Story?’ Older people re-framing their lives through digital storytelling. An ethnographic approach”

3.     Narmina Fataliyeva (Khazar University 2021) “Linguistic and extra linguistic factors regulating the synonym choice in English”

4.     Dr Salim Bouherar (Middlesex 2019) “Understanding and teaching idioms: arguments for assuming home cultural contexts in teaching materials”

5.     Dr Sarah Orthaber (Surrey 2017) “(Im)politeness at a Slovenian Call Centre”

6.     Dr Nattana Leelaharattanarak (Surrey 2015) “Politeness and Face Manifestations in Hospitality Settings: An Investigation of Interpersonally-Sensitive Activities”