Clara Neary

Clara Neary joined the Department of English at the University of Chester as a Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics in September 2012. Her research interests are interdisciplinary in nature and cover the areas of Cognitive Stylistics; Indian Literature in English; Life-Writing; and Postcolonial/Global Literatures. Her doctorate, awarded in 2011, is positioned at the juncture of literature and linguistics and undertook a cognitive stylistic analysis of Gandhi’s autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth (1940). Recent publications include ‘Profiling the Flight of ‘The Windhover’, in Harrison, C., Nuttall, L., Stockwell, P. and Yuan, W. (eds) Cognitive Grammar in Literature and ‘Stylistics, Point of View and Modality’, in M. Burke (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics.