Dr Alexia Bowler

Research Highlights

1. Bowler, A. & Jones, A. (Eds.). (2023). ReFocus: The Films of Jane Campion. Edinburgh University Press.

   SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61792

   https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus-the-films-of-jane-campion.html
2. Bowler, A. (2021). Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

   SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57292

   https://www.walesartsreview.org/becoming-richard-burton-whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf/
3. Bowler, A. (2019). ‘Killing romance’ by ‘giving birth to love’: Hélène Cixous, Jane Campion and the language of In the Cut (2003). Feminist Theory, 20(1), 93-112.

   https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700118804445, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40088
4. Bowler, A. (2013). Towards a New Sexual Conservatism in Postfeminist Romantic Comedy. Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (pp. 185-203). Palgrave Macmillan

   https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137306845, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa26046

   http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137306838#aboutBook
5. Bowler, A. & Cox, J. (2010). Introduction to Adapting the Nineteenth Century: Revisiting, Revising and Rewriting the Past. Journal of Neo-Victorian Studies, 2(2), 1-17.

   SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa26056

   http://www.neovictorianstudies.com/

All Research

• The news values of social protests reporting and the spreading of viral news stories on social media. (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Nuria Lorenzo-Dus

• The English are coming: An analysis of Linguistic features across the English/Welsh border. It willl end up as something like 'Dialect mapping on the English / Welsh border' I want to call it DIALECT MAPPING ON THE ENGLISH-WELSH BORDER (current)

  MA

  Other supervisor: Dr Federica Barbieri

• ALE228 Working with Practitioners (Health, Law, Education, Technology)

  Applied Linguistics connects language theories and evidence with real world challenges, and this often requires the applied linguist to work closely with professionals and practitioners. This module brings students into direct contact with these users of applied linguistics methods, via industry visits, case study analyses, and placement experience. Students will have the opportunity to focus on a particular industry sector (e.g. health care, law, education, technology) and to consider what they as applied linguists can learn from and contribute to that sector.

• ALE229 History of the English Language

  This module covers the history of the English language from its beginnings as part of the Indo-European family of languages, through its various changes: from Old English to Middle English, with some attention paid to Early Modern English. You will determine the processes through which a standard (English) evolves, examining selected texts from different periods, reflecting on the relationships between these chapters in the development of the English language. Throughout the module, students will consider the features of internal language systems with the social, cultural and political conditions and contexts for linguistic development and evolution.

• ALE322 Language Policy and Planning

  This module looks at why we might need to plan for a language and how this might feed into policy. We will consider language planning from the point of view of both status planning (how a language is used within its community), corpus planning (the structure of a language) and acquisition planning (efforts to enable individuals or groups to learn a language). Attention will be given to bodies and institutions, which are involved in making language policy and examples from different language communities in the world will be studied. Throughout this module, we will explore the complex factors and implications of planning and policy: implications for equality and diversity, innovation versus conservative approaches and from a regional/national level to the international stage

• ALE323 Stylistics: Language in Literature, Film and Video Gaming

  Why do authors choose particular combinations of words, phrases in their writing? How do filmmakers put together images or sounds to create their narrative? What does the use of regional dialect in the creation of a character indicate? What effect do choices in sentence length, or a particular register signify? Is there a specific language of genre? Can you distinguish one writer or creator¿s style from another? What role does language play within a text? This course connects form with meaning and function, delving into major genres of cultural production (typically literature, film, video games and other texts from popular culture) to examine the linguistic choices made by authors or creators in order to create meaning and effect. Designed to provide a systematic way of exploring texts, the course will explore creativity in fictive language use, examining the clues that apprise us of the function and meaning(s) of language in any given text.

• ML-106 Cinema in a World Context

  With Hollywood continuing to dominate global cinematic production and consumption, this module will introduce students to a selection of films belonging to the concept generally categorised as "World Cinema". Lectures will explore both the thematic and technical elements of a selection of seven films, situating each one in its political, historical and global context. As such, the module offers insight into key cinematic forms, movements and moments. These range from the Third Cinema of Latin America, via the emergence of postcolonial cinema in Africa and feminist cinema in South Asia, to cult film in East Asia, period drama in Australasia and dance film in the Middle East. Through this introduction to a diverse range of cinemas, movements, styles and cultures, students will gain not only an understanding of the specifics of each individual film studied, but also a heightened understanding of the impact of World Cinema on western cinematic production.

• ML-206 Cinema in a World Context

  With Hollywood continuing to dominate global cinematic production and consumption, this module will introduce students to a selection of films belonging to the concept generally categorised as "World Cinema". Lectures will explore both the thematic and technical elements of a selection of seven films, situating each one in its political, historical and global context. As such, the module offers insight into key cinematic forms, movements and moments. These range from the Third Cinema of Latin America, via the emergence of postcolonial cinema in Africa and feminist cinema in South Asia, to cult film in East Asia, period drama in Australasia and dance film in the Middle East. Through this introduction to a diverse range of cinemas, movements, styles and cultures, students will gain not only an understanding of the specifics of each individual film studied, but also a heightened understanding of the impact of World Cinema on western cinematic production.

• Senior Lecturer in English and Applied Linguistics, Swansea University

  2021 - Present

• Lecturer in English and Applied Linguistics, Swansea University

  2018 - 2021

• Lecturer in English, DACE, Swansea University

  2018 - 2020

• Tutor in English, Swansea University

  2015 - 2017

• Research Assistant on RIF Funded ‘Online Grooming Project’, Applied Linguistics, Swansea University

  2014 - 2015

• Departmental Admissions Officer, Applied Linguistics, Swansea University

  2016 - Present

• Departmental Employability Officer , Applied Linguistics, Swansea University

  2018 - Present

• Departmental Social Media Officer , Applied Linguistics, Swansea University

  2016 - Present

• Departmental Schools Liaison Officer, Applied Linguistics, Swansea University

  2018 - Present

• Departmental mentor for PGR teaching placement scheme, Swansea University

  2020 - Present

Talk: Language at the Movies: Villeneuve’s Arrival, at Swansea Learning Festival, Swansea, UK.