Lexi Webster

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I am Associate Professor of Digital Culture and the Deputy Director of Digital Humanities at University of Southampton. Whilst my primary disciplinary background is in linguistics, my work is more comfortably positioned at the interdisciplinary intersection(s) of (digital) media, communication, gender and sexuality studies. My research primarily focuses on corpus-based critical discourse studies, exploring the implications that identity and ideology have on people, institutions, and structures. Thus far, this research has extended primarily to an exploration of gender and sexuality in online discourses, examining the connections and divisions between online and offline contexts.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Deputy Director of Digital Humanities, University of Southampton
  • 2019–2022
    Lecturer in Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University
  • 2022–2022
    Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University

Education

  • 2020 
    Manchester Metropolitan University, PGCert Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
  • 2020 
    Lancaster University, PhD in Applied Linguistics
  • 2017 
    Lancaster University, MRes in Applied Linguistics
  • 2015 
    Manchester Metropolitan University, BA (Hons) Linguistics

Publications

  • 2021
    "Ties That Bind": The continued conflation of sex, sexuality and gender., Journal of Language and Sexuality, 10(1). 63-70.
  • 2021
    'It reminds me that I should stop for the little moments': Exploring emotions in experiences of UK Covid-19 lockdown, Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine.
  • 2021
    'It reminds me that I should stop for the little moments': Exploring emotions in experiences of UK Covid-19 lockdown., Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
  • 2021
    “Erase/Rewind”: How transgender Twitter discourses challenge and (re)politicize lesbian identities., Journal of Lesbian Studies
  • 2019
    "I am I": Self-constructed transgender identities in Internet-mediated forum communication., International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2019(256). 129-146.
  • 2018
    "I Wanna Be a Toy": Self-sexualisation in gender-variant Twitter users' biographies., Journal of Language and Sexuality , 7(2). 205-236.
  • 2018
    "Misery Business?": The contribution of corpus-driven critical discourse analysis to understanding gender-variant Twitter users' experiences of employment., puntOorg International Journal, 3(1/2). 25-50.

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