Dr Milena Marinkova

Profile

I joined the University of Leeds in 2016, teaching on a wide range of General English and English for Academic Purposes courses at the Foundation, Undergraduate, pre-Masters/pre-PhD and Postgraduate levels. Prior to this, I had an extensive career in the public and private education sectors in the UK and aborad, teaching English as a foreign language (Bulgaria); literature and cultural studies (Leeds, Birmingham, Derby, Teesside, Huddersfield); academic skills (Leeds, LJMU); and English for Academic Purposes (Hull, UCLAN, LJMU, NTIC). 

Responsibilities

• Module lead for Language through Literature and Place: Reading Yorkshire (ELU2010)
• Module co-lead for Language for Education (ELU3011)

Research interests

In my research and scholarship to date, I have investigated the role of multimodal writing in the representation of different identity positions in literary and cultural texts. More specific to EAP, I am interested in examining how diverse cultural and linguistic positionalities are performed in teaching, enabled in different learning contexts, and rhetorically expressed in a number of “academic” genres. In this sense, I have an ongoing interest in exploring the place of interculturality, translingual practices, affect and creativity in the EAP classroom, syllabi / materials, and assessment.

Current scholarship projects:

• Assessing the impact of online rubrics for feedback and assessment (LITE funded). 
• Creative inquiry in EAP.
• The place of linguistic and cultural diversity in teaching.

Qualifications

• Senior Fellow HEA
• Fellow BALEAP
• PhD English (Leeds)
• MA, BA English Philology and Broadcast Journalism (Sofia)

Professional memberships

• Modern Languages Association (MLA)
• British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes (BALEAP)

Student education

I teach English for Academic Purposes to undergraduate and postgraduate students at the Faculties of Arts, Humanities and Cultures, and Social Sciences:

• literature, place and identity and intercultural communication modules;
• content-based summer pre-sessional and in-sessional provision for students at the School of Education.

Research groups and institutes

• Language Centre
• Language at Leeds