<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>I am really pleased to
share the news that my research on the representation of sexual violence
has finally been published in a book: <b><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-09353-1">From Fritzl to #metoo: Twelve years of rape coverage in the British press</a></b> (Palgrave
Macmillan). The book is part of the Palgrave Studies in Language,
Gender and Sexuality. If you're interested in knowing more, I've added a
short summary and reviews below. <br><br><b>About the book</b></div><div>This
book provides a much-needed longitudinal analysis of the language used
by the British press to talk about sexual violence. Through a diachronic
analysis informed by corpus linguistics and feminist theory, the book
examines how rape discourse has (or has not) changed over the past
decade, and it explores how age-old myths about sexual violence
re-emerge in different forms within news narratives. Against the
backdrop of twelve years of newspaper coverage of rape, including many
high-profile cases, this study also traces the rise of “celebrity
culture”, the emergence of #metoo, and the development of the backlash
against it. The historical events and media trends covered in this book
are placed within broader debates on feminism and the role played by
(social) media in shaping contemporary rape discourse. <br></div><div><br></div><div>More information about the author is available <a href="https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/alessia-tranchese">here</a>.</div><div><br></div><b>Reviews</b><br>“An
important, rigorous and very readable book which will be an essential
point of reference for future studies of sexual violence in the news.
Tranchese demonstrates which myths about rape have persisted, as well as
highlighting how they have adapted to the digital news environment. Her
analysis is clear and persuasive and provides activists with new tools
and evidence to push for change. This is feminist media studies at its
best. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.”<br><b>Karen Boyle</b>, Author #MeToo, Weinstein and Feminism, University of Strathclyde <br><br>“This
book is essential reading for anyone who really wants to understand how
the myths and stereotypes around rape are moulded and sustained by the
British media, distracting from the profound structural changes required
to dismantle misogyny and deliver real justice for women, too often
denied by the courts.”<br><b>Yvonne Roberts</b>, journalist and campaigner <br><br>“This
analysis of what changed, and what didn’t, in British press coverage of
sexual violence against women between 2009 and 2019 is a valuable and
much needed contribution to our understanding of a pervasive social
problem. Tranchese shows how the media’s choices about what to report
and how contribute to that problem, and how recent developments like the
rise of online media consumption and the ‘celebrification’ of news have
made things worse. It’s a sobering but necessary read, which will be
welcomed by linguists and other social scientists researching violence
against women, media discourse or both.”<br><b>Deborah Cameron</b>, Professor of Language and Communication, University of Oxford, UK <br><br>“A
fascinating analysis of linguistic and discursive patterns surrounding
press reporting of sexual violence towards women both before and during
the #MeToo era.”<br><b>Paul Baker</b>, Professor of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK<br><br>“An
exceptionally well-researched account of how the British media have
represented sexual violence over the past two decades. Through in-depth
discourse analysis, Tranchese powerfully charts the mythologies embedded
in press coverage of men’s sexual violence against women, and details
how these contribute to the social conditions that make such violence
possible.”<br><b>Dr. Fiona Vera-Gray</b>, Deputy Director of the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan University, UK<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Alessia</div><br clear="all"><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">Dr Alessia Tranchese<br>Senior Lecturer in Communication and Applied Linguistics</font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">Departmental Director of Postgraduate Research (DDPGR)<br></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">School of Languages and Applied Linguistics<br>University of Portsmouth<br>p: +44 (0)23 9284 6044</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">PK 4.09</span></div><div dir="ltr"><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Tranchese, A. (2023). <a href="https://link.springer.com/book/9783031093524" target="_blank">From Fritzl to# Metoo: Twelve Years of Rape Coverage in the British Press</a>. Palgrave MacMillan.</span><br></li><li>Tranchese, A., Sugiura, L. (2021). “I don’t hate all women, just those stuck-up bitches”: How Incels and mainstream pornography speak the same extreme language of misogyny. <i>Violence Against Women</i>, <i>27</i>(14), 2709-2734.<i> </i> DOI: <a rel="noopener" href="https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1077801221996453" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801221996453</a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></li><li>Tranchese, A. (2020). Rape victims and the law: Victim-blaming and victimisation in reports of rape in the British press. In H. Ringrow, & S. Pihlaja (Eds.), <i>Contemporary Media Stylistics</i>. Bloomsbury Publishing Company.<br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span><span></span></span></font></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2">Tranchese, A. (2019). </font></span></span></font></span>Covering rape: how the media determine how we understand sexualised violence. <i>Gender and Language</i>, <i>13</i>(2), 174-201. DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/genl.34445" target="_blank">10.1558/genl.34445</a></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span>Tranchese, A. (2019). Using corpora to investigate the representation of poverty in the 2015 UK general election campaign. <i>Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies</i>, <i>2</i>, 65–93. DOI: <a href="http://doi.org/10.18573/jcads.9" target="_blank">http://doi.org/10.18573/jcads.9</a><br></span></font></span></li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>