Emma Franklin

Dr. Emma Franklin is a Lecturer in English Linguistics at Birmingham City University. She specializes in corpus linguistics, lexicology, and posthumanist approaches to language studies, with a focus on ecolinguistics and critical animal studies. Her research explores linguistic representations of the more-than-human world.

• Corpus linguistics
• Lexicology
• Ecolinguistics
• Posthumanism

Prior to joining Birmingham City University, she worked at the University of Sheffield's Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures and the University of Wolverhampton's Responsible Digital Humanities Lab. She has over a decade of experience in computational linguistics research and combines academic work with roles in child safeguarding, nonprofit narrative strategy, and linguistic consultancy.