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); and English for Academic Purposes (Hull, UCLAN, LJMU, Nottingham Trent).

Responsibilities

• Module lead for Language through Literature and Place: Reading Yorkshire (ELU2010 / ELU2011)
• Module lead for Academic Literacies for MA Education

Research interests

In my research and scholarship to date, I have investigated the role of multimodal writing in the representation and construction of diverse identity positions in a range of literary, cultural and pedagogical texts and contexts. More specific to EAP, I am interested in examining the meaning of diversity, inclusion and social justice, the use of multimodal, translingual and plurilingual practices, as well as the role of affect and creativity in the EAP classroom, syllabi / materials, and assessment / feedback.

Current scholarship projects:

• Interdisciplinary Discourse Analysis project: Reflective practices in Education.
• The place of linguistic and cultural diversity in teaching.
• Creative inquiry in EAP (PRiA funded).
• Reading hidden histories: Creating reading “experiences” of Yorkshire (funded by Experiential Learning Seedcorn Fund)
• Assessing the impact of online rubrics for feedback and assessment (LITE funded).

Qualifications

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

Professional memberships

• British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes (BALEAP)
• European Association for Teaching Academic Writing (EATAW)
• International Network for Experimental Teaching, Assessment and Learning (NETAL)

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