Dr Erika Corradini, BA MA PhD

Academic Coordinator (Programmes)

Erika is a historical linguist whose research focuses on how the English language transformed over time. After teaching historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and modern and ancient languages for some years, she joined LLAS in 2009. Since then, she has overseen projects in e-learning and digital rights, languages of the wider world, Islamic studies, and literature and culture.

Erika can be contacted by
Email: llas@soton.ac.uk | Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 4814 | Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 4815

Biography

Erika did her first degree in English and German Languages and Literatures at the University of Bologna (Italy). She went on to the University of York where she completed an MA in Medieval English Literatures in 2002. Her doctoral work, which she completed at the University of Leicester, assessed the social and political importance of the English language in the eleventh century, a time during which English co-exists with other languages, such as Latin and Norman French.
At LLAS Erika is part of the team of education developers. She currently supports the Islamic Studies Network with colleagues Lisa Bernasek and John Canning and organises activities related to less widely taught and less used languages. She also helps and assists in the development of a number of projects and training events in linguistics and in e-learning. She is involved in the production of teaching and learning resources for the classroom as well as materials for the promotion of languages in schools. She is still active as a teacher of historical linguistics and as a teacher of Italian to children in community schools.

Expertise

• Developing training and networking events for professionals and academics in the areas of languages, literature and culture, linguistics and Islamic studies
• Supporting activities for the Islamic Studies Network (with Lisa Bernasek and John Canning)
• Creating resources for the promotion of languages in schools
• Writing project and research reports (both internal and externally commissioned)
• Managing and overseeing projects, organizing events, creating networking opportunities for academics

Key achievements

Projects
HumBox (JISC/HEA funding) Open Education Resources Repository 2009/10 (as a digital rights officer)
Islamic Studies Network (with Lisa Bernasek and John Canning)

Resources
Why study languages? – website for school pupils (with LLAS staff)
Studying Languages – website for university students (with LLAS staff)
Why study languages calendar (with LLAS staff)
TXT Speak badges – teaching resource for schools (with LLAS staff)
The Islamic Studies data base – an archive of Islamic Studies teaching modules in the UK
The Humbox copyright helper – a helper to publishing for open sharing

Papers/articles
Corradini, Erika, Borthwick, Kate and Dickens, Alison (2010) Information and communication technologies in foreign language learning. Southampton, GB, Centre for Languages Linguistics and Area Studies, University of Southampton
Corradini, Erika, Stone, Oren (2010) Publish and be damned? Legal aspects of open sharing, Liaison 5
Canning, John, Corradini, Erika (2011) Researching Islamic Studies Provision: the Islamic Studies module data base, Perspectives 2

Non-pedagogic articles
Corradini, Erika (2011) The objects of knowledge: reconstructing medieval communities through the material analysis of manuscripts. In, Da Rold, Orietta, Kato, Takako, Treharne, Elaine and Swan, Mary (eds.) The Production and Use of English Manuscripts, 1060-1220. Leicester, GB, Brepols. (New Medieval Literatures, 13). (In Print)
Corradini, Erika (2010) The composite nature of eleventh-century homiliaries: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 421. In, Da Rold, Orietta and Treharne, Elaine (eds.) Textual Cultures: Cultural Texts, Boydell & Brewer, 5-19. (Essays and Studies).
Corradini, Erika (2006) Preaching in Old English: tradition and new directions. Literature Compass, 3 (6), 1266-1277.
For further details see University of Southampton eprints repository.