Maria Kuteeva Professor

I received my MPhil (1995) and PhD (1999) in English from the University of Manchester, where I also started my university teaching career. I joined the Department of English at Stockholm University in 2008 and was involved in the establishment of the Centre for Academic English (CAE), which I directed between 2010 and 2017. In 2011 I earned the title of associate professor (Swedish: docent) and became full professor in 2014. I have been a visiting researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (2013) and the University of Helsinki (2018), and an Erik Allardt research fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2021)

Over the last fifteen years, my research and publications pdf, 202.4 kB. have focused on the use of English in multilingual university settings, e.g. English-medium education (EME/EMI), writing for publication, and the impact of digital technologies on academic discourse. I have led and participated in several research projects and am currently part of the ReMoDEL project team (VR 2023-03853). My work has appeared in international peer-reviewed journals, such as Applied Linguistics, English for Specific Purposes, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Discourse, Context and Media, Higher Education, and Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. The book Tension-filled English at the multilingual university: A Bakhtinian perspective (2023, Multilingual Matters) develops a novel analytical framework to theorise my emprical research findings. Since 2022 my work has been recognized in the Stanford/Elsevier World's 2% most-cited scientists ranking.  

I have supervised research projects on topics related to discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, language teaching and learning, and other areas of English linguistics. 6 PhD students have completed their projects under my supervision and 1 is currently in progress at Stockholm University. My teaching in the Department includes lectures and workshops on research methods and Pragmatics, as well as courses on “Discourse Analysis”, “English and Multilingualism”, "Syntax", “Language for Specific Purposes”, and "English for Academic Research". I am also coordinating and teaching a course Dynamics of Multilingualism for the Faculty of the Humanities Doctoral School. 

I have edited two books and five special journals issues, and serve on the editorial boards of Applied Linguistics (Oxford University Press), Journal of English for Academic Purposes (Elsevier), Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes (John Benjamins), as well as the open access peer-reviewed series "Stockholm English Studies" (SUP). Together with Ruth Breeze, I am co-editor-in-chief of Ibérica: Journal of the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes (AELFE, Q1 in Linguistics and Language).

Over the last few years, I have completed several external review assignments for universities and research funding organisations in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Singapore and the UK. I am currently a member of the Linguistics and Language Studies review panel for the Research Council of Finland.