Dr Sophie Payne

Email:
s.l.payne@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
+44 (0) 118 378 3203
Job title:
Lecturer

Responsibilities:

IWLP German Language Lead
IWLP Marketing Lead
IWLP Student Engagement Lead
Course tutor for LA1PG1 and LA1PG2

Office

Miller 101

Building location

Miller building

Areas of interest

German language and culture, linguistics and feminism.

Teaching

I have taught German language with the IWLP since 2018 and teach mainly on the lower levels (A1-A2).

In the past I taught on DLC degree-side modules on the West German post-war history, the history of German post-war migration, German lexicology and German textual linguistics. I have also previously taught on the module Discourse Analysis for the Applied Linguistics Department.

Background

I was born in Reading and grew up nearby. After a gap year teaching English, I returned to Reading to study BA German and Italian, followed by an M(Res) and a PhD in German Studies.

Publications

Mackenzie, J. , Coffey-Glover, L. , Payne, S. ORCID: 0000-0003-3341-4245 , McGlashan, M. (2020) Disco divas and heroic knights: a critical multimodal analysis of gender roles in “create the world” LEGO cards. In: Caldas-Coulthard, C. , (eds.) Innovations and Challenges: Women, Language and Sexism. Routledge pp. 60-76. ISBN: 9780367133726

Payne, S. (2018) Representations of contemporary feminist protest in Germany and the UK.

Payne, S. (2013) Compliment responses of female German and Italian university students: a contrastive study. Language Studies Working Papers , 5 pp. 22-31. ISSN: 2040-3461