Invited talks:
‘From Ego to Eco: language and ecology in travel magazines.’ Language and Ecology Seminar. University of Cagliari [online]. 31 March 2023.
‘”Nine iconic addresses, nine extraordinary hotels, one unique collection” – stylistics analysis of the language of luxury in the marketing materials of The Dorchester Collection.’ Stylistics Research Group. University of Portsmouth [online]. 10 February 2021.
‘Luxury language in The Dorchester Collection hotel marketing materials.’ Professorial Guest Lecture at University of Wroclaw [online]. 5 February 2021.
Popular fiction and popular culture – conference papers:
‘How old is YA? Urban Fantasy and YA on the cusp of adulthood in Martyna Raduchowska’s trilogy.’ YASA [Young Adult Studies Association] Online Conference. November 2020.
‘Red Vengeance: Marvel YA novels and the Gothic.’ IGA [International Gothic Association] conference: Gothic Hybridities. Manchester Metropolitan University. 28 July-3 August 2018.
‘“Nine iconic addresses, nine extraordinary hotels, one unique collection” – stylistic analysis of the language of luxury in the marketing materials of The Dorchester Collection.’ PALA [Poetics and Linguistics Association] conference 2018: Styles and Methods. Newman University and University of Birmingham. 25-28 July 2018.
“Forever Red: Black Widow’s identity, language, and Marvel’s Young Adult Fiction”. Investigating Identities in Young Adult YA Narratives Symposium. University of Northampton. 16 December 2017.
‘”You kiss your mother with that mouth?”: Language and characterization in Marvel Cinematic Universe.’ PCA/ACA National Conference. San Diego, CA. 12-15 April 2017.
‘“Call it, Captain”: superhero identity and language in Marvel Telecinematic Universe.’ Superhero Identities Symposium. Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne. 8-9 December 2016.
‘“We need to get it done”: Steve Rogers, Phil Coulson, and the language of leadership.’ The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses (SCW7). Kingston University. 7-10 July 2016.
‘“I had strings, but now I’m free… There are no strings on me!”: Joss Whedon, language and transmedia Marvel.’ BAFTSS [British Association of Film, Television, and Screen Studies] Conference. University of Reading. 14-16 April 2016.
“Behind that façade, you’re no meek little puss-in-boots”: were-creatures in Yasmine Galenorn’s Sisters of the Moon series.’ OGOM [Open Graves, Open Minds]: ‘The Company of Wolves’: Sociality, Animality, and Subjectivity in Literary and Cultural Narratives—Werewolves, Shapeshifters, and Feral Humans. University of Hertfordshire. 3-5 September 2015.
‘”An odd vamp out: half-Fae, half-human, all vampire”: gothic migrations in Yasmine Galenorn’s Sisters of the Moon series.’ International Gothic Association Conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. 28 July-1 August 2015.
‘”Where is Buffy when we need her?”: strong women, vampires, and popular fiction.’ Daughter of Fangdom: A conference on Women and Television Vampire. University of Roehampton. 18 April 2015.
‘”That doesn’t sound like the Phil Coulson I used to know”: language and change in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses. California State University-Sacramento, Sacramento, CA. June 19-22, 2014.
‘Changing identity on the small screen: transformations, vampires and language in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.’ TV Fangdom: A Conference on Television Vampires. University of Northampton. 7-8 June 2013. Also presented at: Current Research in Children’s and YA Speculative Fiction Symposium. University of Wroclaw, Poland. 18 May 2014.
‘”We’re witches, dear. We can do anything.” Magic spells and language in Charmed.’ Capturing Witches: Histories, Stories, Images, 400 Years after the Lancashire Witches. Lancaster University. 17-19 August 2012.
Language of branding – conference papers:
With Marek Kuzniak, ‘Dive back in’: Condé Nast Traveller hotel descriptions, style, and language in the times of a global pandemic. PALA Conference. University of Nottingham [online], 7-9 July 2021.
‘It sits beside the stark, ghostly white limbs of river red gums and weeping willows that dip their tendrils in waters’: hotel blurbs, style and genre in Condé Nast Traveller descriptions.’ PALA [Poetics and Linguistics Association] Conference: Stylistics without borders. Liverpool University. 10-13 July 2019.
PUBLICATIONS:
Drewniok, M. (2017). ‘A “very specific skills set”: Black Widow’s use of language in Joss Whedon’s Avengers (2012)’. In Ginn, Sherry (ed.) (2017). Marvel’s Black Widow: from spy to superhero. McFarland.
Drewniok, M. (2017). Review of Paul Simpson (2014). Stylistics. A Resource Book for Students. London and New York: Routledge. In BAAL News, Jan 2017.
Drewniok, M. (2016). Review of Jennifer K. Stuller (ed.) (2013). Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Intellect Ltd. In Journal of American Studies of Turkey 43 (2016), 10-13.
Drewniok, M. (2015). ‘The Witch, the Tabby Cat and the Undead: the language of the D’Artigo sisters from Yasmine Galenorn’s Sisters of the Moon series.’ In Farghaly, Nadine (ed.) (2015). Beyond the Night: Creatures of Life, Death and the In-Between. Cambridge Scholars.
Drewniok, M. (2013). ‘“I feel strong. I feel different”: transformations, vampires and language in Buffy the Vampires Slayer.’ In George, Sam and Hughes, Bill (eds.) (2013). Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture. Manchester UP.
Drewniok, M. (2012). ‘You’re strong. I’m stronger: vampires, masculinity and language in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.’ InJoss Whedon: The Complete Companion (2012). Titan Books. Also appearing in the second edition published in April 2015.
Drewniok, M. (2011a). ‘You’re strong. I’m stronger. Vampires, masculinity and language in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.’ (2011) Spotlight on Joss Whedon. Popmatters: International Magazine of Cultural Criticism. www.popmatters.com
Drewniok, M. (2011b). Review of: Jennifer K. Stuller (2010). Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology. I.B. Tauris. http://reactionblog.livejournal.com/3261.html