Geoff Hall
Professor
Humanities and Social Sciences ,
The University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
China
Biography
After taking degrees in English language and literature at Sussex and Birmingham Universities and gaining teaching qualifications, I worked for the British Council and others for 10 years in UK, Sweden, Singapore, Poland, Spain, Sweden and Colombia before joining the University of Wales, Cardiff in 1993. At Swansea University, Wales, from 2000- 2011 I led MA TEFL, BA English Language Studies and was Head of Applied Linguistics from 2007-9. I supervised PhDs in Discourse Analysis, TEFL, CLIL and Second Language Acquisition. In my teaching and research I have been committed to a fruitful dialogue between literary and applied linguistic studies in international contexts and so Nottingham Ningbo University is now a natural home for me where I took over as Head of Division from September 2011. Current research interests are literary stylistics, intercultural communication and global Englishes and China.
Research Interest
Intercultural research and research on uses of English in China is planned to develop along with continuing interest in literary stylistics, including Free Indirect Discourse and emotions in literary reception.
Publications
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(2016) Literary Language and Creativity. In R. Jones (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity Ch. 12: 206-218
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(2016) Stylistics and literary theory. In V. Sotirova (ed) Continuum Companion to Stylistics (London: Bloomsbury Academic) Ch.15: 244-262.
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(2016) Using Literature in ELT. Routledge Handbook of ELT Graham Hall (ed.) (London: Routledge), Ch. 32: 456-470
