Felicitas Macgilchrist

Dr. des., graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh, including one year’s study at the Technical and Humboldt Universities in Berlin. She received an MA in Education (Applied Linguistics) from the Open University. Her interest in discursive psychology and discourse analysis led to a DFG (German Research Foundation) stipend in the “Representation-Rhetoric-Knowledge” graduate programme at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder where she completed her doctorate in 2009. Her dissertation “Imagining Russia” analysed hegemonic and marginal discourses about Russia and Chechnya, exploring the ways in which general truths and social imaginaries are produced, reproduced, undermined and challenged through these specific media discourses.

From 2004 to 2005, Felicitas Macgilchrist was visiting scholar at New York University. She was lecturer at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences from 2006 to 2007 and has been research associate at the University of Ghent, Belgium, since 2007. She has taught English, Russian history, media analysis and discourse theory in Russia, Germany, Vietnam and the USA. Her research interests lie primarily in ethnographic discourse analysis, curriculum theory and diversity in educational media in increasingly heterogeneous societies.

Projects

In January 2009, Felicitas Macgilchrist joined the Georg Eckert Institute as research fellow in the research area "Education and Globalization". Her project “Educational Media: Production, Praxis, Politics” explores how knowledge(s) are produced in contemporary schools. Combining ethnographic and discourse analytical methods, the project investigates the production and use of educational media, paying particular attention to issues of identity and diversity.

Thesis

• Imagining Russia: A cultural discourse analysis of news coverage in the international media. (Doctoral dissertation, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt /O).

Articles

• Publish or Perish? A genre approach to getting published in leading English-language journals. In Katrin Girgensohn (Ed) Kompetent zum Doktortitel: Konzepte zur Förderung Promovierender. (Wiesbaden: VS Verlag. 2010)
• The view from elsewhere: Western mediation of potential sources of Russian dislocation. In Philipp Casula & Jeronim Perovic (Eds) Identities and Politics During Putin's Presidency. (Stuttgart: ibidem 2009), 334-354.
• Framing the news: An ethnographic view of business newswriting, Text & Talk (2010). (with Tom Van Hout)
• Lebensansichten eines Schulbuches. In Eckert: Das Bulletin 5 (2009), 38-39
• Postkolonialismus und Schulbuchentwicklung: Ein Blick aus der Schulbuchpraxis. In: Eckert: Das Bulletin 6 (2009), 9-11
• Position Paper: Towards a Linguistics of News Production. In NT&T Working Paper Series, 1 (2009), 1-22 (with NewsTalk&Text Research Group).
• Gazprom, Ukraine und die deutschen Medien - Das Neujahrstrio. Telepolis, (3 January 2009).
• Vom Osten zum europäischen Kern: Die Deutsche Berichterstattung über Polen. In I. Kollak & A. Kołodziej-Durnaś (Eds), Formen des sozialen Lebens im multikulturellen Europa. (Berlin: Schibri. 2008)
• Metaphorical Politics – Is Russia ‘western’ or not in the UK, US and German press coverage of the Russian-Chechen conflict? In C. Baker, C. Gerry, B. Madaj, E. Mellish & J. Nahodilova (Eds), Nation in Formation: Inclusion and Exclusion in Central and Eastern Europe. (London: SSEES Occasional Papers. 2007), 73-90.
• Positive Discourse Analysis – Contesting Dominant Discourse by Reframing the Issues. In CADAAD (Critical Approaches to Discourse across Disciplines) 1(1) (2007), 74-94.
• Z Zachodu do centrum Europy: obraz Polski i Polaków w niemieckich sprawozdaniach prasowych. In I. Kollak & A. Kołodziej-Durnaś (Eds), Formy życia społecznego w wielokulturowej Europie: polsko-niemieckie introspekcje. (Szczeczin: Economicus. 2007), 7-24.
• Bond and The Return of the Evil Empire. Telepolis, 26 November 2006.
• Terrorist or Freedom Fighter? Evaluation in ‘objective’ press texts. In Hartmut Lenk and Andrew Chesterton (Eds) Contrasting Text Types in the Press, Hildesheim: Georg Olms. 2005), 59-78.
• Reading strategies. In English Teaching Matters 4(1) (2003), 4-6.
• Community Language Learning. In English Teaching Matters, 3(2) (2002), 6-9.

Reviews

• Book review: Zelizer, Taking Journalism Seriously: News and the Academy. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2004. Discourse & Society, 18(5) (2007), 684-687.
• Book review: Beer and De Landtsheer (Eds), Metaphorical World Politics. Discourse and Society, 18(2) (2007), 230-232.

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