Staff profiles
Professor Sara Mills
BA, MA, PhD
Phone 0114 225 3863
E-mail s.l.mills@shu.ac.uk
Research interests/current work
- linguistic politeness
- feminist linguistic theory
- feminist text analysis
- critical discourse analysis
- feminist post colonial theory
Current postgraduates
- Diane Wright - Language of disability
- Sarah Gormley - Third Wave Feminist Analysis
- Aicha Emhammed - Politeness and Arabic
- Red Lee - Humour in Art/Design
Research collaborations
I regularly co-supervise postgraduate students with Art Dept and Communications Studies; I collaborate on research projects with colleagues from Communications Studies.
I collaborate with colleagues from Sheffield University on gender and language, Valencia University on politeness. I co-edit a journal, Gender and Language, with a colleague from Toronto University.
I co-edit the Journal of Politeness Research with a colleague from Loughborough University.
Research outputs since 2001
Language and Sexism, Cambridge University Press 2008
Gender and Colonial Space, Manchester University Press, Manchester 2005
Discourses of Difference: Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism, Routledge, London (reprinted) 2003
Michel Foucault, Critical Thinkers Series, Routledge, London 2003
Ed. with Reina Lewis: Feminist Post-Colonial Theory: An Anthology, Edinburgh University Press 2003
Gender and Politeness, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (trans into Japanese and Greek 2006) 2003
Discourse, 2nd edition, Routledge, London (also German translation) 2003
Ed. Language and Gender: interdisciplinary perspectives, reissue, Pearson Education, London 2002
Ed. with Shirley Foster, British Women's Travel Writing: An Anthology, Manchester University Press, Manchester 2002
Ed. with Indira Ghose, Fanny Parks: Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque, Exploring Travel series, Manchester University Press, Manchester 2001
Ways of Reading, revised 2nd edition, with Montgomery, Fabb, Durant and Furniss, Routledge, London 2000
I also co-edit the journal Gender and Language with Bonnie McElhinny of Toronto University and I play an active role in the Linguistic Politeness Research Group.
