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Personal profile
Research Interests
My research interests span stylistics, with a particular focus on Possible Worlds Theory and readers' emotions, and English in education. I am currently finalising a monograph titled Possible Worlds Theory and Readers' Emotional Responses to Literature for Bloomsbury. I am also working on a short monograph for the Cambridge Elements in Stylistics series in which I focus on exploring the importance of emotion in the pedagogical practices of stylisticians teaching in Higher Education.
Teaching Activity
I have taught on a variety of modules across our English programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
First Year: Reading Poetry, Literary Genres in English, Literature in History, English Language Across Time and Space, Stylistics
Second Year: Writing and Ideology, Literature in Film, Working with Language Data
Final Year: Language and Literature in Education
MA: Language and Literature in Education, Applying English, Research Methods in TESOL
I also supervise undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations.
Qualifications
BA (Hons) English and French (University of Warwick)
MA Creativity, Arts, Literacies and Learning (University of Nottingham)
PGCE (University of Nottingham)
PhD Literary Linguistics (Aston University)
PhD Supervision
I would be interested in supervising doctoral research projects in the following areas:
- Cognitive stylistics
- Reader response studies
- Narratology/narrative theory
- Empirical studies of literature
- Contemporary literature
- English in education
Please get in touch via email if you are interested in working with me on any of the above.
Membership of Professional Bodies
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Poetics and Linguistics Association (Member)
Responsibilities
Departmental responsibility for Outreach.
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Possible Worlds Theory and Readers' Emotional Responses to Literature
Mansworth, M., 2025, (Accepted/In press) 272 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Researching Stylistics: A Student Guide
Ahmed, F., Giovanelli, M., Godfrey, C., Harrison, C., Love, R., Mansworth, M., Pihlaja, S. & Wydrzynska, E., 6 Oct 2025, 192 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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The restricted possible worlds of depression: a stylistic analysis of Janice Galloway’s The Trick is To Keep Breathing using a possible worlds framework
Mansworth, M., 9 Jun 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Language and Literature.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Teaching English Language and Literature 16-19
Ahmed, F. (Editor), Giovanelli, M. (Editor), Mansworth, M. (Editor) & Titjen, F. (Editor), 2021, London. 164 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Teach to the Top: Aiming High for Every Learner
Mansworth, M., 17 Sept 2021, 136 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Thesis
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Possible Worlds Theory and Readers’ Emotions: The Construction of Textual Actual and Possible Worlds and Readers’ Responses to Literature
Mansworth, M. F. (Author), Giovanelli, M. (Supervisor) & Harrison, C. (Supervisor), Apr 2022Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
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Press/Media
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What’s missing from English literature at school – emotion
Giovanelli, M. & Mansworth, M.
30/11/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research