Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Teaching Activity
I teach on a variety of language and literature modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level. In the 2024-25 academic year, I am module leader for Reading Poetry (Y1), English Language Across Time and Space (Y1), Stylistics (Y1), Writing and Ideology (Y2), Literature in Film (Y2), Working with Language Data (Y2), Language and Literature in Education (Final Year/MA) and Applying English (MA). I also supervise undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations.
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.
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)
Responsibilities
I have departmental responsibility for Outreach activities.
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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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Teach to the Top: Aiming High for Every Learner
Mansworth, M., 17 Sept 2021, 136 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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The significance of emotion in English literature teaching: from Newbolt to today
Mansworth, M. & Giovanelli, M., 2 Dec 2021, The New Newbolt Report: One Hundred Years of the Teaching of English in England . Green, A. (ed.).Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Teaching comparative poetry analysis
Mansworth, M., 20 Oct 2020, Teaching English Language and Literature 16-19. Ahmed, F., Giovanelli, M., Mansworth, M. & Titjen , F. (eds.). London, p. 128-136Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Teaching drama using discourse analysis
Mansworth, M., 20 Oct 2020, Teaching English Language and Literature 16-19. Ahmed, F., Giovanelli, M., Mansworth, M. & Titjen, F. (eds.). London, p. 105-112Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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