Dr Helen Sauntson

Senior Lecturer English Language & Linguistics

BA (University of Central England, 1994)

PGCE (University of Birmingham, 1995)

PhD (University of Birmingham, 2001)

Contact details

E: h.sauntson@yorksj.ac.uk

T: +44 (0)1904 876880

Profile

Teaching

Professional Activities

Research & Publications

I am a Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics in the York St John Business School Centre for Languages and Linguistics. I am also Head of Programme for the MA Applied Linguistics: TESOL and I teach on this programme as well as the BA English Language and Linguistics and MA English Language and Linguistics programmes.

My main teaching and research interests are in the areas of classroom discourse analysis; language, gender and sexuality; language in education; gender and sexuality in education. As a former teacher, I maintain an interest in classroom interaction and my research in this area focuses on how gender and sexuality identities are constructed through linguistic interaction in classroom settings. I am currently working on research into the role that language plays in constructing sexuality discourses in educational contexts, with a specific focus upon linguistic manifestations of homophobia in UK secondary schools. I have published a number of authored and edited books and journal articles in the research areas listed above areas (see Research and Publications section below).