Sonia ZyngierSonia Zyngier is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the Postgraduate Programme of Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she was also Director of Cultural Affairs and Continuing Educationfor 5 years. She also acted as Secretary of PALA (Poetics and Linguistics Association) and is the current Secretary of IGEL (International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media). She has an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Liverpool and a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham. Much of her work has been on stylistics and the teaching of literature to EFL students. Specific research interests include discourse analysis and pedagogical stylistics. She has published widely on literary awareness, stylistics, and corpus analysis of literary discourse. She has developed a program of research in the area of the Empirical Science of Literature and its implications for literary education. In 2006 she edited, together with Greg Watson, Literature and Stylistics for Language Learners, published by Palgrave, and published Muses and Measures: Empirical Research Methods for the Humanities in 2007 together with Willie van Peer and Jèmeljan Hakemulder. Read More Read Less