Author

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I am the author and editor of nine books about language and religion, published by Cambridge University Press, Bloomsbury, and Routledge, among others. 

My monographs have largely investigated discussions of religion in online spaces: my first book, Antagonism on YouTube focused on some of the earliest instances of YouTube ‘drama’ and trolling, and the effects that had on discussions about religious belief. 

My second book, Religious Talk Online looked at Muslim, Christian, and atheist discourse about God and morality on social media and how people attempted to rationalise bad behaviour with appeals to morality. 

Talk about Faith focuses on the public discussion of religious faith on social media, on podcasts, and in debates about religion. 

My newest book, Narrative and Religion in the Superdiverse City talks about how people view their religious identity when they live and work with people of many different faiths, and the challenges and opportunities superdiversity offers for community cohesion.

I’ve also co-authored a book called Cognitive Linguistics and Religious Language: an Introduction, with colleagues in Japan which provides a primer for working on religious language from a cognitive perspective, showing how religious belief is tied to our experience of the physical and social world.

I’ve edited Analysing Religious Discourse (2021, CUP), and special issues of Language and Literature and Metaphor and the Social World and co-edited the Routledge Handbook of English Language Studies and the Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion. My edited collection Contemporary Media Stylistics with Helen Ringrow came out in 2020 with Bloomsbury. 

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