Christine Johansson

Christine Johansson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Uppsala University, where she has taught English linguistics since 1998. Her distinguished career spans over three decades, combining rigorous research in English syntax with innovative pedagogical approaches that earned her Uppsala University's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2005.

Her academic foundation includes a B.A. and M.A. in Languages' Education from Linköping University (1981), followed by nine years as a high school teacher in German and English. She completed her Ph.D. at Uppsala University in 1995 with a thesis on possessive relativizers in present-day English syntax.

Johansson's research centers on diachronic and synchronic analysis of English relative clauses, tracing syntactic evolution from Middle to Modern English across varieties like British and American English. Her methodology integrates corpus linguistics with historical analysis, particularly examining relativizer placement, cleft constructions, and 19th-century syntactic patterns. In language didactics, she pioneers Supplemental Instruction techniques for grammar teaching and analyzes syntactic development in Swedish learners' English through the Uppsala Learner English Corpus.

Her publication trajectory reveals consistent focus on historical syntax (75% of recent works) with growing emphasis on learner corpus applications (20% since 2009). Key trends include genre-based analysis of Early Modern English (2012-2015) and gender/speaker-role studies in 19th-century texts (2007-2008).

Her scientific recognition includes:

• Distinguished Teaching Award, Uppsala University (2005)

As an educator, Johansson mentors teacher-training students through school placements in Uppsala and Canterbury, while integrating research into advanced courses like Early Modern English and Second Language Acquisition. Her grant-supported work on the Uppsala Learner English Corpus demonstrates sustained funding for corpus compilation projects.

She co-leads the English Linguistics research group with Dr. Christer Geisler, directing collaborative projects on Swedish learner English and maintaining active participation in international historical linguistics networks.