Hi, my name is Stephen and I am, among many things, a man with a bad haircut.
Although I am originally from the US, I live outside Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia with my wife, Yoko, and three daughters, Naomi, Mei, and Mia. I teach full time as an Assistant Professor of Language and Literature in the School of English at the University of Nottingham's International campus in Semenyih. I came here from the UK, where I lived and studied for 4 years.
My educational pedigree is more important to me than it should be: I'll spare you the details. If you want to know more about my professional work, please check out my professional site.
Before coming to Malaysia and doing my PhD in the UK, I lived in Japan for five years (2003–2008) where I taught English in a variety of different settings in both Fukuoka and Niigata City.
And in my free time, I enjoy long distance running, cycling, and spending time with my wife and daughters.
This blog has a few required texts. You're expected to read them in your own time:
This blog has a few required texts. You're expected to read them in your own time:
- Allington, D. (2006). "First steps towards a rhetorical psychology of literary interpretation." Journal of literary semantics 35(2): 123–144.
- Allington, D. (2008). "How to do things with literature: Blasphemous speech acts, satanic intentions, and the uncommunicativeness of verses." Poetics Today 29(3): 473-523.
- Bakhtin, M. (1981). The Dialogic Imagination. Austin, University of Austin Press.
- Cameron, L. (2008). Metaphor shifting in the dynamics of talk. Confronting Metaphor in Use; An Applied Linguistic Approach. M. S. Zanotto, L. Cameron and M. C. Cavalcanti. Amsterdam, John Benjamins: 45–62.
- Cameron, L. and R. Maslen (2010). Metaphor analysis: Research practice in applied linguistics, social sciences and the humanities. London, Equinox.
- Foucault, M. (1981). The orders of discourse. Untying the Text: A post-structuralist reader. R. Young. London, Routledge: 48–78.
- Foucault, M. (1970). The order of things. London, Routledge.
- Gibbs, R. (1994). The Poetics of Mind: Figurative thought, language and understanding. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
- Larsen-Freeman, D. and L. Cameron (2008). Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
