About

Hi, my name is Stephen and I am different things to different people.

Although I grew up in the States, I live in Birmingham, UK with my partner, and three daughters. I teach full time at Newman University.

In my free time, I enjoy long-distance running and the Internet.

My own academic writing might give some insight into the epistemologies and heuristics that inform my writing. Additionally, there are a few required texts which you're expected to read in your own time:
  • Allington, D. (2006). "First steps towards a rhetorical psychology of literary interpretation." Journal of literary semantics 35(2): 123–144.
  • Bakhtin, M. (1981). The Dialogic Imagination. Austin, University of Austin Press.
  • Billig, Michael. (1996). Arguing and thinking: A rhetorical approach to social psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University 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, Lynne. (2015). Embracing connectedness and change: A complex dynamic systems perspective for applied linguistic research. AILA Review, 28(1), 28-48. 
  • 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. In Young, R. (Ed.) Untying the Text: A post-structuralist reader. 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.
  • Hagen, S., (2009). Buddhism is not what you think: Finding freedom beyond beliefs. London: Penguin.
  • Larsen-Freeman, D. and L. Cameron (2008). Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics. Oxford, Oxford University Press.