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Biography

PhD (Sheffield); MA Literary Linguistics (Nottingham); BA English (Nottingham)

PGCHE (Nottingham); SFHEA

As a literary linguist, my research sits at the interface between English literature and English language in the areas of stylistics and cognitive poetics. I have a particular expertise in the cognitive poetics of emotion, cognitive reception, representations of consciousness and mind, and worlds theories in dystopia. My most recent research focuses on the experience of reading feminist dystopian fiction, and the development - more broadly - of contemporary feminist stylistics.

I also specialise in distance and online learning and am the co-author of Digital Teaching for Linguistics (Routledge) which provides both an introduction to digital pedagogy and a discussion of technologically-driven teaching practices that can be applied to any field of study.

Expertise Summary

Areas of expertise - dystopian literature, contemporary fiction, cognitive poetics, stylistics, feminist stylistics, empirical stylistics, discourse analysis.

Teaching Summary

My teaching draws on my research in stylistics, narratology, and cognitive poetics. I teach students at all levels, from first-year undergraduate to postgraduate.

Undergraduate modules taught

Academic Community (level 1); ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ing Language (level 1); Writing and Place (level 1); Literary Linguistics (level 2); Advanced Stylistics (level 3); Dissertation (level 3)

Postgraduate modules taught

Cognition and Literature; Dissertation

I also convene the following pods on our online MA English programme:

Cognitive Narratology; Corpus Stylistics, Literary Linguistics, Narratology, Texts in a Digital World, The Language of Dystopia, The Language of Multimodal Literature, The Reader in Stylistics

Research Summary

My research focuses on the language of dystopia and the experience of engaging with dystopian texts. My monograph,The Language of Dystopia (Palgrave), brings together these research interests,… read more

Selected Publications

• NORLEDGE, J., 2021. . In: A. BELL, S. BROWSE, A. GIBBONS and D. PEPLOW, eds., Style and Reader Response: Minds, Media, Methods John Benjamins. 43-60
• NORLEDGE, J., 2019. . In: B. NEUROHR and L. STEWART-SHAW, eds., Experiencing Fictional Worlds John Benjamins. 157-175
• NORLEDGE, J., 2019. 'English Language: Stylistics, 2017' (Review) The Year's Work in English Studies. 98(1), 147-158
• NORLEDGE, J., 2018. 'English Language: Stylistics, 2016' (Review) The Year's Work in English Studies. 97(1), 167-177

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Current Research

My research focuses on the language of dystopia and the experience of engaging with dystopian texts. My monograph,The Language of Dystopia (Palgrave), brings together these research interests, offering an extended stylistic analysis of the dystopian genre and exploring the evolution of new dystopian media.

I have also published on dystopian epistolary, the presentation of unnatural and non-human minds in dystopia, language and gender in dystopia, and the experience of dystopian reading.

• NORLEDGE, J., 2026. Embodied Cognition in Emergency Skin. In: ADAM, N., NORLEDGE, J., STOCKWELL, P. and VOICE, M., eds., Immersion. The Experience of Literary Reading Edinburgh University Press. 239-253
• ADAM, N., NORLEDGE, J., STOCKWELL, P. and VOICE, M., 2026. Introduction: Immersion – The Experience of Literary Reading. In: ADAM, N., NORLEDGE, J., STOCKWELL, P. and VOICE, M., eds., Immersion. The Experience of Literary Reading Edinburgh University Press. 1-13
• ADAM, N., NORLEDGE, J., STOCKWELL, P. and VOICE, M., eds., 2026. Immersion. The Experience of Literary Reading Edinburgh University Press.
• NORLEDGE, J., 2025. A Toolkit for Prose. The Nottingham Stylistics Toolkit emagazine. 107, 66-7
• NOLETTO, I.A.C., NORLEDGE, J. and STOCKWELL, P., eds., 2024. Reading Fictional Languages Edinburgh University Press.
• NOLETTO, I.A.C., NORLEDGE, J. and STOCKWELL, P., 2024. Introduction: Reading Fictional Languages. In: NOLETTO, I.A.C., NORLEDGE, J. and STOCKWELL, P., eds., Reading Fictional Languages Edinburgh University Press. 1-13
• NORLEDGE, J., 2024. Women, Fire, and Dystopian Things. In: NOLETTO, I.A.C., NORLEDGE, J. and STOCKWELL, P., eds., Reading Fictional Languages Edinburgh University Press. 161-178
• NORLEDGE, J., 2024. N. K. Jemisin. In: PARKS, R., ed., Contemporary Literary Criticism 547. Gale. 1-114
• NORLEDGE, J., 2023. 'It is a sin to write this': The Prohibition of Language in Dystopia emagazine. 100, 28-31
• NORLEDGE, J., 2022. English Studies. 103(3), 386-406
• NORLEDGE, J., 2022. Palgrave.
• GREGORY, R., NORLEDGE, J., STOCKWELL, P. and SZUDARSKI, P., 2022. Routledge.
• NORLEDGE, J., 2021. . In: A. BELL, S. BROWSE, A. GIBBONS and D. PEPLOW, eds., Style and Reader Response: Minds, Media, Methods John Benjamins. 43-60
• NORLEDGE, J., 2020. Language and Literature. 29(1), 3-21
• NORLEDGE, J., 2019. . In: B. NEUROHR and L. STEWART-SHAW, eds., Experiencing Fictional Worlds John Benjamins. 157-175
• NORLEDGE, J., 2019. 'English Language: Stylistics, 2017' (Review) The Year's Work in English Studies. 98(1), 147-158
• NORLEDGE, J., 2018. 'English Language: Stylistics, 2016' (Review) The Year's Work in English Studies. 97(1), 167-177