About
Dr. Justin McNamara is a Lecturer in English Language & Literature at Mary Immaculate College (MIC), Limerick, Ireland. He holds a PhD and specializes in Applied Linguistics, with a focus on Corpus Linguistics and Multimodal Discourse Analysis. His research explores language use in virtual environments, corporate diversity policies, and the analysis of idiomatic expressions in media contexts.
Dr. McNamara’s work appears in journals like International Journal of Corpus Linguistics and Research in Corpus Linguistics, and he co-authored the 2023 Routledge publication Corpus Linguistics for Virtual Workplace Discourse. His research groups include the Interactional Variation Online (IVO) initiative and the Diversity Corpus project analyzing European business language policies.
He collaborates with international scholars on projects such as analyzing Twitter commentary on remote work and investigating multimodal communication in virtual meetings. His contributions span academic publications, conference presentations, and contributions to the ELTed Ireland Bulletin.
