Research
For an overview of my areas of interest and outputs, you can see https://www.markmcglashan.com/.
I am broadly interested in the following areas of research:
• Corpus Linguistics
• (Critical) Discourse Studies
• Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies
• Multimodality (especially the development and application of methods that in some way combine approaches from Corpus Linguistics, (Critical) Discourse Studies, and Multimodality)
• Gender & Sexuality
• Social Network Analysis
• Language and its relationships with power, politics, discrimination, abuse, and conflict (e.g. racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, nationalism).
• (Online) identities and discourse communities/communities of practice
• News media and/or (social) media discourse
Specifically, I would be interested in supervising PhD projects that respond to the following areas of interest:
• Language and (online) misogyny
• The application of linguistic methods in (online) safeguarding, especially work that applies corpus linguistic methods to the analysis of language relating to, for example: Sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, self-harm and suicide, eating disorders, radicalisation and extremism.
Corpus Linguistics
(Critical) Discourse Studies
Research collaborations
MANTRaP: Misogyny ANd The Red Pill
Veronika Koller (University of Lancaster), Alexandra Krendel (University of Southampton), Jess Aiston (Queen Mary University of London)
https://www.markmcglashan.org/projects/mantrap MANTRaP examines discourse found in radical online forums dedicated to issues relating to men and masculinity (the 'manosphere'), including communities related to men's separatism, 'Men's Rights Activism' (MRA), ‘Men Going Their Own Way’ (MGTOW), 'involuntary celibacy' (incel), and 'pick-up artistry' (PUA). Consistent across many of these forums is the legitimation of misogyny through discussion of 'red pill philosophy', which seeks to counteract Feminism and disavows gender equality. Language used in the manosphere is becoming more mainstream and discussion of the manosphere in the media is becoming increasingly common but little is known about how communities in the manosphere operate or the potentially negative effects discourse in these communities might have on wider gender relations. The popularisation and normalisation of misogynistic discourse especially online may have profound social effects on beliefs, values and social behaviours and such harmful online discourse can catalyse offline violence. In 2014, Elliot Rodger killed six people in Isla Vista, California having frequented misogynistic online forums. As such, it is possible that "accepting and normalizing the degradation of women meets equally severe consequences as sexual violence." (DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2017.05.001).