Engaging with Work in English Studies

1 Introduction: Engaging with Work in Worlds of Change

Part I Identities

2 'Imagine being so suddenly useless': Unemployment, Vulnerability and the Irish Financial Crash in Donal Ryan's The Spinning Heart

3 Authenticity at Work: English Teachers' Experiences of Authentic and Inauthentic Acting4 'We do no harm, we say what we want, and we get paid for it': Academic Work and Dignity in Stoner by John Williams



5 Working with Identity Work: Supporting Professional Identity Development in Teacher Education

Part II Oppositions and Transformations

6 The Superhero and the Tiger Mom: Examining the Relation Between Parental Expectations and Career Choices in Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew's The Shadow Hero

7 Changing English, Changing Challenges: The Work of Teaching English in a Context of Diverse Experiences

8 Interpreting the Lives of Working Children in James Joyce's Ulysses9 Global English in the Workplace: Introducing the Concepts of 'Workplace English as a Lingua Franca' (WELF), and 'Successful WELF Users'



10 From 'Mayday' to #MeToo: Sexual Harassment in Margaret Atwood's Dystopian Workplaces in The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments and The Heart Goes Last

Alastair Henry is Professor of Language Education in the Department of Social and Behavioural Studies at University West, Sweden.

Åke Persson is Professor of English Literatures in the Department of Social and Behavioural Studies at University West, Sweden.