Jack Hardy

Jack Hardy is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at Oxford College of Emory University, with affiliations at Emory College of Arts and Sciences and prior roles at Georgia State University, College of Southern Nevada, and Universidad Iberoamericana. His work bridges applied linguistics, corpus linguistics, and language education, focusing on disciplinary variation in writing and empirical research methods.

• Education:
  • BA, University of Arizona (2005)
  • MA, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla (2007)
  • PhD, Georgia State University (2014)

Dr. Hardy’s research emphasizes corpus-based sociolinguistics, disciplinary writing variation, and integrated language-teaching approaches. He explores how student writing differs across academic fields and online contexts, with projects like the Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies and analysis of biomedical research articles in English and Chinese. His recent work includes metadiscourse in undergraduate ePortfolios and political discourses in Western Europe.

His publications and co-edited volumes, including The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis (2021), highlight trends in multi-dimensional analysis, world Englishes, and formulaic language. Articles span topics from pedagogical applications of corpora to gendered discourses and obituary rhetoric.

Scientific Awards:

• Recognition for Excellent Teaching, Phi Beta Kappa (2020, 2017, 2015)

Dr. Hardy actively mentors undergraduate students in research and publication, with collaborators presenting at conferences like the International Corpus Linguistics Convention. He has led workshops on action research, corpus-driven teaching, and conference proposal writing. His projects also include analyzing Twitter and Weibo for feminist discourses and food blogs for parasocial interaction.