David Matley

I am an academic associate / Lektor at the English Department of the University of Zurich. My teaching includes academic writing at both BA and MA level, cultural / media studies, Lehrdiplom courses and occasional linguistics classes. I have also taught linguistics at the University of Bern English Department, and have taught academic writing skills courses at a postgraduate level at the University of Lucerne. I also led a three-day workshop on postgraduate academic writing for Mental Health PhD students in Geneva (MARATONE) in January 2016.

I gained my MA in Modern Languages (German and French) at Edinburgh University in 1990, and completed my doctorate in applied English linguistics at the University of Tübingen, Germany, in 2011, published as Exploratory Grammar Learning in a Multimedia Environment by Tectum in 2013. My research interests are digital culture(s), digital literacies, and the pragmatics of social media. I am currently conducting research into discourses of (im-)politeness and the gendered norms of relationship initiation online.