Dr. Michael Burke Head of the Academic Core Department P.O. Box 94 NL-4330 AB Middelburg Office hours: by appointment Tel. 0118-655512 / fax 0118-655508 E-mail:

Profile

Dr. Michael Burke is an Associate Professor of rhetoric, English and pedagogy (UHD). He is the current Chair/President of the International Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) and is a Routlege Research Series Editor in linguistics (with a focus on rhetoric and stylistics). He is also the head of the Academic Core department at RA (since 2005) and is the Director of the RA Teaching and Learning Center. He is the founder of the special interest group on cognitive poetics within PALA (Cog-Sig) and is currently the founder and moderator for the special interest group on rhetoric, stylistics and pedagogy (Ped-Sig II). He holds a senior university teaching qualification (SKO).

He has been an invited plenary/keynote speaker at the University of Granada, the Shanghai International Studies University and the Moray School of Education at Edinburgh University. He has also been an invited speaker of the Oxford Linguistics Circle at Oxford University (2007), where he spoke on the topic of his monograph: the role of emotion and cognition in literary discourse processing. Further, he has given many guest lectures at conferences around the world including ones in New York, Istanbul, Osaka, Toronto, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Budapest, London, Brussels and Amsterdam.

Before coming to Roosevelt Academy, Dr. Burke previously lectured at Utrecht University, University College Utrecht, the VU University Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam (where he studied and later gained his doctorate). He has also taught as a guest lecturer at Nottingham University. He is a member of a number of academic societies including the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLC), the International Association for Empirical Literary Studies (IGEL), the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR), the International Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) and the European Association of Rhetoric in Society (EARIS). He is a former winner of the International Longman Prize for the best newcomer in the field of stylistics in sponsored by Pearson Education. His fields of expertise include classical rhetoric (for pedagogical purposes), literary stylistics, creative writing, critical discourse analysis, word and image studies, cognitive stylistics, discourse analysis, argumentation analysis and persuasion in social discourses. He has published several articles and entries within many of the above-mentioned areas (see below). His publishers include Cambridge University Press, Routledge and Elsevier Science. He is also a member of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Theory and Interpretation (ASCA), an internationally renowned research school. His foremost commitment, however, is to developing, maintaining and improving learning strategies and learning materials for university students, and in particular for undergraduates.
 
Key publications in the last ten years

2011

• Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion: An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind. London and New York: Routledge, 2011. [The Routledge Monograph Research Series in Linguistics]

2010

• “Cognitive Stylistics: History, Development and Current Applications” Journal of Foreign Languages. Vol. 33/1, 2010, pp.40-46.
• ‘Rhetoric and Persuasion’ ed. P Hogan The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 715-717.
• "Why care about Pedagogical Stylistics?" Language and Literature. 19/1, 2010.
• "Rhetorical Pedagogy: Teaching Students how to write a Stylistics Paper". Language and Literature. 19/1, 2010.

2009

• ‘Stylistics’ in The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopaedia. London: Routledge, 2009, pp. 526-532.

2008

• 'Advertising Aristotle: A Preliminary Investigation into the Contemporary Relevance of Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric’, Foundations of Science, Springer, 13/3, 2008.
• ‘How Cognition Can Augment Stylistic Analysis’. The European Journal of English Studies, Vol. 9.2 (August 2005), pp.185-96. Reprinted in Recent Developments in Western Stylistics. 2008 Ed. Dan Shen. Shanghai, China: Shanghai Foreign Languages Education Press.

2007

• 'Progress is a comfortable disease: Cognition in a stylistic analysis of e.e.cummings', M. Lambrou, and P. Stockwell, Contemporary Stylistics. London: Continuum, 2007.

2006

• ‘Cognitive Stylistics’ in Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd Edition), ed. Keith Brown Amsterdam, Elsevier, 2006, pp. 218-221.
• ‘Emotion in stylistics’ in: Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd Edition), ed. Keith Brown Amsterdam, Elsevier, 2006, pp. 127-129.

2005

•  ‘How Cognition Can Augment Stylistic Analysis’. The European Journal of English Studies, Vol. 9.2 (August 2005), pp.185-96.

2004

•  ‘Cognitive Stylistics in the Classroom: A Pedagogical Account’, in: Style (39):1, 2004. pp. 491-510.

2003

• ‘Literature as Parable’, in: Cognitive Poetics in Practice (eds J. Gavins and G. Steen), London: Routledge, 2003, pp. 115-128.
• ‘Beyond Pure Reason: The Role of Emotion in Language and Cognition’, Belgian Journal of Language and Literature, vol. 1, 2003, pp. 31-40.

2002

• Meaning, Frame and Metaphor: Travelling Concepts II (eds. M. Burke and J. Goggin), Amsterdam: ASCA Press, 2002.

2001

• ‘Visual text and affectivity’, in: Travelling Concepts, eds. J. Goggin and S. Neef, Amsterdam: ASCA Press, 2001, pp. 78-87.
• ‘Iconicity and Literary Emotion’, European Journal of English Studies, vol 1 (April, 2001), pp. 31-46.

2000

• ‘Distant Voices: The Dynamism of Yeats’ Dialogic Verse’, in: Contextualized Stylistics, eds. T. Bex, M. Burke and P. Stockwell, Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000, pp. 85-102.
• Contextualised Stylistics, eds. T. Bex, M. Burke and P. Stockwell, Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000. 
  

Forthcoming (books and academic articles)

• Cognitive Stylistics in Practice (with Ernestine Lahey). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Press (2011)
• “Systemic Pedagogical Stylistics”, in Current Trends in Pedagogical Stylistics. ed (Burke, Csabi, Week and Zerkowitz). London: Continuum, (2012)
• Current Trends in Pedagogical Stylistics. Ed (with Csabi, Week and Zerkowitz). London: Continuum (2012)
• Persuading Through Language: Rhetoric, Pedagogy and Modern English. London:  Palgrave MacMillan (2012)
• “Literary Linguistics” in An Introduction to Language and Linguistics. ed. Dean Hardman. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (2012)

Research Projects

Dr. Burke is currently working on a number of pedagogically-orientated research projects that involve both group work at an international level (e.g. Ped-Sig II) and individual work. Both of these will lead to publications (articles) on learning materials in the fields of rhetoric, creative writing and stylistics. His other core research interest pertains to exploring the roles that emotion and cognition play in text processing and in particular literary text processing. Articles are currently in preparation.

Courses

• ACC120 Introduction to Rhetoric & Argumentation
  
• ACC320 Persuasion in Social Discourses
• ACC321 Creative Writing: A Stylistic Approach