Helen Lois Ringrow Portrait

Dr Helen Ringrow

Associate Head (Research and Innovation)

helen.ringrow@port.ac.uk

PhD Supervisor

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences School of Education, Languages and Linguistics Linguistics Languages and applied linguistics Centre for European and International Studies Research Sociology and Social Theory Research Group Women's and Gender Studies Research Group

Biography

I am Associate Professor in Contemporary Discourse. I have a PhD from Queen’s University Belfast, where I researched how ideals about femininity and the female body are constructed in French and English cosmetics advertisements. I am the author of The Language of Cosmetics Advertising (Palgrave, 2016) and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion (2023) and Contemporary Media Stylistics (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Research interests

My research interests include:

  • advertising language
  • social and traditional media language
  • language, gender & religion
  • online communities
  • language & social justice/inequality

I have a research background in Critical Discourse Analysis and Stylistics.