The European Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (ESFLA) is launching a series of online events for 2025-2026.
The first event is part of a series "People in Systemic Functional Linguistics" and will feature Dr. Laetitia Monbec (University of Leeds).
Laetitia is French, works in an Anglophone context, and combines Systemic Functional Linguistics notably with social theory (e.g. Bourdieu’s Field Theory).
Join ESFLA board members Anne McCabe (Saint Louis University, Spain) and Fiona Rossette (Université Paris Nanterre, France) to discuss Laetitia's work in SFL, her latest book, Recovering Language in Higher Education, Social Justice, Ethics and Practices (Palgrave, 2024) and her academic journey.
When: Friday, November 21st, 2.00-3.00 pm (UK time)
Where: https://slu.zoom.us/j/94874107273?pwd=O4zKWeOGvtuhN8UPWW29luXsfYh6f5.1
Best wishes,
Fiona Rossette
Laetitia Monbec, Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, has a background in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), Genre Pedagogy, Multimodality, Critical Discourse Analysis and Curriculum Design in English for Academic Purposes (EAP). She is particularly interested in the nature and place of knowledge about language and multimodal resources in curriculum, and in disciplinary discourse. This has led her to combine detailed linguistic/multimodal analysis (Actors Theory and SFL) with social theory (in particular Legitimation code theory or Bourdieu’s Field Theory) in order to develop a sociological understanding of the EAP field, in particular to critically examine the legitimation practices that favour certain curriculum knowledge over other, illustrated by her recent book co-authored with Alex Ding, Recovering Language in Higher Education, Social Justice, Ethics and Practices (Palgrave, 2024). She has worked on specific disciplinary discourse analysis such as Nursing, Design and STEM. Before joining the University of Leeds, where she is currently the Director of Scholarship and Programme lead on the STEM Summer presessional, she worked at the National University of Singapore, and at City University of Hong Kong, where she taught, developed curriculum, and led on various English for Academic Purposes programmes.