Kate Margaret O'Farrell Postdoctoral researcher

Kate O’Farrell is a PhD student in English linguistics at the Department of English, Stockholm University. Her research is primarily concerned with discursive construction of ideologies in online comment sections, particularly those which discuss issues relating to gender. Her work is broadly within the field of Digital Discourse Analysis. Among the main methods and approaches used in her research are Critical Discourse Analysis, the Appraisal framework, and Narrative Analysis.

Kate has an MA in Applied linguistics from the University of Limerick and had taught EAL and academic English in Beijing and Dublin. At Stockholm University she has taken part in the Doctoral School theme course ‘Dynamics of Multilingualism’ throughout its four semesters.

Research topics: Asynchronous online communication; Comment Sections; Dialogism; Gender; Ideologies.

Supervisors:
Maria Kuteeva (Main)
Josep Soler (Second)