Katie Wales

Katie Wales is a Special Professor in English Language and Literature at the University of Nottingham, previously Professor of English Language at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and the University of Leeds. She is a founder member of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) and co-founder of its journal Language and Literature. Her research focuses on stylistics, rhetoric, and the language of authors from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Charles Dickens and James Joyce, with key works including Dictionary of Stylistics (3rd edn, 2011) and The Language of James Joyce (1992).[1][2][3]