Professor Joanna Gavins

Joanna Gavins is Chair of English Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield. Joanna's publications include Poetry in the Mind (EUP, 2020), Reading the Absurd (EUP, 2013) and Text World Theory: An Introduction (EUP, 2007). She is also co-editor of World Building: Discourse in the Mind (2016) and Cognitive Poetics in Practice (2003). She has published widely on stylistics, cognitive poetics, literary absurdism and contemporary poetry, and has presented her work around the world.

Joanna Gavins is Chair of English Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield. Joanna's publications include Poetry in the Mind (EUP, 2020), Reading the Absurd (EUP, 2013) and Text World Theory: An Introduction (EUP, 2007). She is also co-editor of World Building: Discourse in the Mind (2016) and Cognitive Poetics in Practice (2003). She has published widely on stylistics, cognitive poetics, literary absurdism and contemporary poetry, and has presented her work around the world. See less