Crispin Thurlow joined the department in August 2014. With a background in psychology (South Africa) and in theatre (England), Professor Thurlow worked for over a decade at the University of Washington in the USA where he held appointments in Communication, Linguistics and Anthropology, and, most recently, was a Full Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences. In 2007, he received the university's highest honour for teaching excellence, the Distinguished Teaching Award. Before moving to North America, Professor Thurlow had lived in Wales, holding a lectureship in the Center for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University which is also where he completed his doctorate.
For information about Professor Thurlow's research agenda, publication record, teaching portfolio and community service please visit http://www.crispinthurlow.net/.
Research Interests
Critical discourse studies, critical intercultural studies, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, meta-language, language ideology, multimodality (e.g. visuality, space/place, material culture), language and globalization, language and new media, youth and adolescent communication, sex/uality, class inequality.
