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Curriculum vitae

Brook Bolander is a post-doctoral research and teaching assistant, who started in the English Department in Zürich in August 2012, as an assistant to Prof. Dr. Marianne Hundt. Before that, she was employed in the English Department at the University of Basel, where she worked as an assistant for Prof. Dr. Miriam A. Locher, and where she completed her doctoral dissertation, entitled 'On language and power in blogs'. Prior to her work in Basel, she was assistant to Prof. emeritus Dr. Richard J. Watts in the English Department at the University of Berne, where she also completed her licentiate studies.

Research interests: Sociolinguistics of globalisation, language use and space, and English as a global language (particularly with respect to questions of nationalism and transnationalism, and in connection with power and identity); computer-mediated communication (particularly with regard to disagreements, power, and methodology); and sociolinguistics (particularly in connection with educational inequality).

Academic qualifications

16th April 2012. PhD Dissertation, University of Basel, Switzerland. Title: “On Language and Power in Blogs”; supervisors Prof. Dr. Miriam A. Locher and Prof. Emeritus Dr. Richard J. Watts (summa cum laude)

April 2006. Licentiate (MA), University of Bern, Switzerland. Title: “On Salient Themes in Sociolinguistics” (summa cum laude)

Academic employment

February 2014 –: Research and teaching assistant to Prof. Dr. Marianne Hundt, Department of English, University of Zurich, Switzerland

July 2013 – December 2013: Research fellow at the Central Asian Studies Institute, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Since June 2013 –: Editorial assistant for English World-Wide (ed. by Prof. Dr. Daniel Schreier and Prof. Dr. Marianne Hundt, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

August 2012 – July 2013: Research and teaching assistant to Prof. Dr. Marianne Hundt, Department of English, University of Zurich, Switzerland

February 2012 – December 2013: Freelance desk editor for the Journal of Historical Pragmatics (ed. by Prof. Dr. Andreas H. Jucker, University of Zurich, and Prof. Dr. Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki)

August 2008 – July 2012: Research and teaching assistant to Prof. Dr. Miriam A. Locher, English Seminar, University of Basel, Switzerland

since March 2008: Review work for international linguistics journals

August 2007 – July 2008: Research and teaching assistant to Prof. Emeritus Dr. Richard J. Watts, Department of English Languages and Literatures, University of Bern, Switzerland

August 2006 – July 2007: Research and teaching assistant to Prof. Emeritus Dr. Hans Badertscher, Department of Didactics, University of Bern, Switzerland

Visiting fellowships and tertiary education abroad

2013 (July to December): Visiting research fellow, Central Asian Studies Institute (CASI), American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

2010 (August): Visting research fellow, Department of English, The University of Memphis, Tennessee, USA

2004 (July to December): Semester abroad, BA Anthropology Honours, University of Melbourne, Australia

September 2000 – June 2001: First year BA Honours in English and German Literature, University College London, London, England

Fieldwork

2013 (July to December): Fieldwork in Pakistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan

2012 (July): Fieldwork in Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan  

Publications             

Monographs

Bolander, Brook. 2013. Language and Power in Blogs: Interaction, Disagreements and Agreements. Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 237. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Peer-reviewed articles and chapters in edited books

Bolander, Brook. 2009. “On the Relevance of Bernstein for German-Speaking Switzerland.” Multilingua 28 (2–3): 195–228. Special issue on “Re-examining Bernstein”, ed. by Jenny Cook-Gumperz.

Bolander, Brook, and Richard J. Watts. 2009. “Re-Reading and Rehabilitating Basil Bernstein.” Multilingua 28 (2–3): 143–175. Special issue on “Re-examining Bernstein”, ed. by Jenny Cook-Gumperz.

Bolander, Brook, and Miriam A. Locher. 2010. “Constructing Identity on Facebook.” In Performing the Self. Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature 24, ed. by Karen Junod, and Didier Maillat, 165–188. Tübingen: Narr.

Bolander, Brook. 2012. “Disagreements and Agreements in Personal/Diary Blogs: A Closer Look at Responsiveness.” Journal of Pragmatics 44: 1607–1622. Special issue on “Theorising disagreement”, ed. by Jo Angouri, and Miriam A. Locher.

Bolander, Brook, and Miriam A. Locher. 2014. “Doing Sociolinguistic Research on Computer-Mediated Data: A Review of Four Methodological Issues.” Discourse, Context & Media 3, 14-26.

Locher, Miriam A., and Brook Bolander. 2014. “Relational Work and the Display of Multilingualism in Two Facebook Groups.” In Face Work and Social Media, ed. by Christiane Maass, Kristina Bedijis, and Gudrun Held. Hildesheim: Hildesheimer Beiträge zur Medienforschung.

Bolander, Brook, and Miriam A. Locher. In press, 2015. “Language, Identity and ‘Acts of Positioning’ in Facebook: Preliminary Results of a Pilot Study.” Special issue on “Relational Work in Facebook and Discussion Boards/Fora” for Pragmatics, ed. by Miriam A. Locher, Brook Bolander, and Nicole Höhn.

Locher, Miriam A., Brook Bolander, and Nicole Höhn. In press, 2015. “Relational Work: Introducing Relational Work in Facebook and Discussion Boards/Fora.” Special issue on “Relational Work in Facebook and Discussion Boards/Fora” for Pragmatics, ed. by Miriam A. Locher, Brook Bolander, and Nicole Höhn.

Locher, Miriam A., and Brook Bolander. In press. “Humour in Microblogging: Exploiting Linguistic Humour Strategies for Identity Construction in Two Facebook Focus Groups.” In Interaction and Participation in the (New) Media, ed. by Marta Dynel and Jan Chovanec. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Edited collections

Locher, Miriam A., Brook Bolander, and Nicole Höhn (eds.). In press, 2015. Special issue on “Relational Work in Facebook and Discussion Boards/Fora” for Pragmatics.

Reviews

Bolander, Brook. Forthcoming, 2015. Review of Rani Rubdy and Lubna Alsagoff, eds., 2013, The Global-Local Interface and Hybridity. Exploring Language and Identity. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. English World-Wide 36.1.

Public media publications

Bolander, Brook. 2014. “Reading Dostoyevsky in English: A Who Dunnit in Khorog, Tajikistan.” CESMI Central Eurasian Scholars and Media Initiative Blog (BBC Central Asian Services and CESMI) <http://cesmi.info/wp/>.

Selected teaching (at the universities of Zurich, Basel and Bern, Switzerland)

When English Went Global: Transnationalism, Migration and Mobility (BA Seminar, Zurich, Spring 2014)

Language and Space (BA Seminar, Zurich, Spring 2013)

Research Methodologies for the Study of Computer-Mediated Discourse (MA Seminar, Basel, Spring 2012)

Introduction to the History of English (BA 2nd year course, Basel, Spring 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)

Introduction to Language and the Mind (BA 2nd year course, Basel, Autumn 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)

Introduction to Syntax and Semantics (BA obligatory course, Bern, Autumn 2007, Spring 2008)

Introduction to Historical linguistics (BA obligatory course, Bern, Autumn 2007)