Professor Monika Bednarek is a leading academic in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney , where she directs the Sydney Corpus Lab and contributes to the Charles Perkins Centre. Her career spans postdoctoral research at the University of Sydney (2006–2008) and the University of Technology Sydney (2008–2009), culminating in her current role as a full professor. PhD, Magister Artium (Augsburg, Germany) Habilitation (University of Sydney) Fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy (FAHA) Research Interests focus on corpus linguistics , media linguistics , discourse analysis , and language and identity . She specializes in the linguistic expression of emotion and attitude across registers, with particular emphasis on fictional television and news discourse. Recent projects examine Indigenous-authored TV narratives and person-first language in disability representation. Notable Publications include Language and Characterisation in Television Series (2023), Multimodal News Analysis across Cultures (2020), and The Discourse of News Values (2017). Her work has been cited extensively in corpus linguistics, multimodal analysis, and media studies. Scientific Awards : SOAR Fellowship (2018–2020) Distinguished Talent Visa (2009) Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship (2008–2009) Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford (2013) Supervision extends to postgraduate research in corpus-based media analysis, particularly focusing on mass media discourse (news, television) using corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. She leads collaborative networks like the Language & Identity Research Group and the Everyday Social Media Research Network .





