Dr Alexia Bowler

• Does method of administration influence response behaviour in word association tasks? (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Tess Fitzpatrick

• Investigating lay understanding of falls vocabulary (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Tess Fitzpatrick

• Digital news making and sharing of worldwide post-pandemic contested political election outcomes (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 (awarded 2025)

  MA

  Other supervisor: Prof Nuria Lorenzo-Dus

• ALE116 A 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 Early Middle English and Early Modern English. You will determine the processes through which a standard (English) evolves, examining selected extracts of texts from different periods, reflecting on the relationships between the various chapters in the development of the English language. Throughout the module, students will consider some of the features of internal language systems alongside the social, cultural and political conditions and contexts for linguistic development and evolution.

• 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 engagement experience (e.g. placement or project collaboration). 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.

• 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

  This course connects form with meaning and function, delving into major genres of cultural production 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.

• ALE325 Applied Linguistics Dissertation

  In this module, students will conduct an empirical research project in Applied Linguistics under supervision. The first semester includes a number of skills-building lectures and seminars, while the second semester includes mainly the individual or small group meetings with the dissertation supervisor. Students collect and analyse data, and write up their projects in an 8,000 word dissertation.

• FY-017 Place, Memory & Identity in Literature, Film, Visual Art & Media

  This module explores the crucial role of place in constructions of personal and national identity in literature, film, visual art, and Media texts. Place also contributes to memory politics, centred on sites of trauma, heritage, and resistance. This course considers various concepts and tropes related to place, including home, belonging, borders, exile, and anthropocentrism. Attention will also be paid to how exploitation and despoilation of the natural world impact on interpersonal, inter-community, and human non-human relations. (Designed for Foundation Year students intending to pursue degrees in English Literature, English Literature with Creative Writing, Media and Communication, Public Relations and Media, or Sport, Media and Culture, students taking this course have the opportunity to transfer to the Film and Visual Culture or Journalism, Media and Communications degree upon successful completion.)

• MSS106 Hollywood: A History of American Film

  Hollywood: A History of American Cinema is a contextual and chronological study of the history of Hollywood, its effect on American society and its attempts to reflect the changes of that society. Key films are studied in depth and in relation to each other and to social and political developments in the USA.

• Senior Lecturer, Swansea University

  2021 - Present

• Lecturer in English Language, Literature and Film, DACE/LML, Swansea University

  2018 - 2021

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

  2014 - 2015

• Tutor in English Literature and Film, DACE, Swansea University

  2009 - 2017

• Senior Personal Tutor, Swansea University

  2025 - Present

• Subject Lead for English Language and Applied Linguistics, Swansea University

  2022 - 2024

• Subject Lead for English Literature, DACE, Swansea University

  2018 - 2022

• Employability Lead for English Language and Applied Linguistics, Swansea University

  2018 - Present

• Admissions Tutor, Applied Linguistics, Swansea University

  2016 - Present

• Invited Talk (with Adele Jones): From Reading to Writing: Experiential Learning and Authentic Assessments in Higher Education

  December 2023

  Queen Mary University of London, UK

• The Flexible Classroom: Experiential Learning and Adaptable Teaching (with Adele Jones)

  2023

  Advance HE Conference, Keele University, UK

• Jane Campion: Adapter or Auteur?

  2022

  Creative and Critical Practice Research Group (CCPRG), Swansea University

• From Reading to Writing: Exploring Pedagogy and the External Classroom (with Adele Jones)

  2022

  SALT Effective Practice Seminar, Swansea University

• ‘“A plague o’ both your houses”: Teaching drama in an online setting (with Adele Jones)

  2021

  SALT Conference, Swansea University, UK

• From Reading to Writing: Exploring New Techniques for Inspiration in Creative Writing (with Adele Jones)

  July 2019

  SALT Conference, Swansea University, UK.

• Back to the Future: From Archives to Experiential Education: Using the Past to Inform Future Learning

  July 2019

  SALT Conference, Swansea University, UK.

• ‘‘Your father, My Friend”: Reorienting Masculinity, or the Structures of Male Kinship and Care in Ripper Street

  May 2019

  (Neo-)Victorian ‘Orientations’ in the Twenty-First Century, University of Málaga, Spain.

• ‘Reflections on Using Wikis: Gimmick or Innovative Assessment?’

  July 2018

  SALT Conference, Swansea University, UK.

• Invited Talk: Language at the Movies - Villeneuve’s Arrival

  May 2019

  University of Granada, Spain.

Academic Panel Member: Feminism, Incompleteness and Film: Renee Green's Some Chance Operations, Feminist Studies Association (FSA), Volcano Theatre, Swansea, UK December, 2023

Talk: Language at the Movies: Villeneuve’s Arrival, at Swansea Learning Festival, Swansea, UK, 2019.