The new academic year at the department starts with three introductory lectures on Monday 6 September 2021

• New students: 10.00-10.55
• ‘Old’ BA students: 11.00-11.30
• MA students: 11.35-12.05

All three meetings are planned to take place in Fiesta B205, but if there are restrictions on group sizes, we’ll move the meetings online. In that case, we’ll send the Zoom link to enge-info and post it on our Moodle Notice Board.

The introduction is an important occasion where you will get a lot of essential information concerning your studies. So do come along!

M.A. Cathryn McWilliams will publicly defend her doctoral thesis in English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology at Åbo Akademi University on Monday 28 June, 2021, at 2pm.

The thesis is entitled The Letters and Legacy of Mary Ann McCracken.

Dr., Lecturer Jonathan Wright, Maynooth University, Ireland, will serve as opponent and professor Anthony Johnson, Åbo Akademi University, as custos.

You are welcome to follow the event online at https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66695112484.

An online version of the thesis is available in Doria:
http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-765-995-6

FM Mats Nyhom will defend his doctoral thesis Friday, 14 May, 2021 at 5 pm.

The thesis is entitled Searchers After Horror: Understanding H. P. Lovecraft and His Fiction.

The opponent is Professor Timothy Murphy, Oklahoma State University, USA, and the chair is Associate Professor Jason Finch.

You are welcome to follow the event online using this link:
https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/69343809567

An online version of the thesis is available in Doria:
https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/180929

The English Department’s online Thesis Festival will take place on Wednesday 19 May, starting at 4:15 pm, in Zoom at https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/64063179969

Programme:

Welcome

Presentations of thesis work

 Lisa Martin-Harewood (BA):

“American and British English – Orthographic and Lexical Tendencies of Finland Swedish Secondary School EFL Learners”       

Meredith Brown (BA/MA):

“A Comparative Case Study of NESTs in Two EFL Contexts: South Korea and Finland”

 Jannika Siimelä (MA):

“Finland-Swedish Upper Secondary School Students’ Perspectives on Development and Assessment of Speaking Skills : A Case Study of the Effects of Pedagogical Intervention”

BREAK    

Matilda Söderbacka (MA):

“ ‘And the earth was without form and void’ : The Paradoxical Nature of Formlessness in Eleanor Wilner’s ‘Reading the Bible Backwards’”

Sara Hänninen (MA):

“The Use of Anglicisms in German, Swedish and Finnish Newspaper Advertising”

 Charlotte Stormbom (PhD):

“Gendered language in flux : The use of epicene pronouns in EFL and ELF writing”

H.W. DONNER ESSAY PRIZE 2021

The department is looking for a trainee for the period March to May 2021. For more information see the trainee ad on the Department’s Moodle Notice Board and sent to enge-info.

FM Charlotte Stormbom will defend her doctoral thesis Friday, 12 February, 2021 at 1 pm.

The thesis is entitled Gendered language in flux: The use of epicene pronouns in EFL and ELF writing. Apart from the candidate’s lectio praecursoria in Swedish, the discussion will be in English.

The opponent is Professor Anna Mauranen, University of Helsinki, and the chair is Professor Tuija Virtanen-Ulfhielm.

You are welcome to follow the event online using this link:
https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/61209180922
Meeting ID: 6120 918 0922

A link to the online version of the thesis can be found here:
https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/180221