Dr Lisa El Refaie
Overview
Position:
Senior Lecturer
Email:
RefaieEE@cf.ac.uk Telephone: +44(0)29 208 76338
Fax: +44(0)29 208 74242
Extension: 76338
Location: Humanities Building, Colum Drive, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU.
Research Group
Centre for Language and Communication Research
Postgraduate Students
I am interested in supervising doctoral research in the field of visual and multimodal analysis and, more broadly, media discourse analysis.
Research Interests
My main research interests are in visual / multimodal forms of narrative (e.g. cartoons, comics, graphic novels) and rhetoric (e.g. visual metaphor), audience research, and media representations of cultural identity.
Selected Publications
El Refaie, E. (2009) ‘Multiliteracies: How readers interpret political cartoons’, Visual Communication 8(2): 181-205.
El Refaie, E. (2010) ‘Subjective time in David B’s graphic memoir Epileptic’, Studies in Comics 1(2): 281-299.
El Refaie, E. (2010) ‘Visual modality versus authenticity: The example of autobiographical comics’, Visual Studies 25(2): 162-174.
El Refaie, E. (2011) ‘The pragmatics of humor reception: Young people’s responses to a newspaper cartoon’, HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research 24(1): 87-108.
El Refaie, E. and Hörschelmann, K. (2010) ‘Young people’s readings of a political cartoon and the concept of multimodal literacy’, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 31(2): 195-207.
El Refaie, E. (forthcoming) Autobiographical comics: Life Writing in Pictures. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Publications
Book
El Refaie, E. (forthcoming) Autobiographical comics: Life Writing in Pictures. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Refereed journal articles
El Refaie, E. (forthcoming 2012) ‘Of men, mice, and monsters: Body images in David Small’s Stitches: A Memoir’, The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 3(1).
El Refaie, E. (2011) ‘The pragmatics of humor reception: Young people’s responses to a newspaper cartoon’, HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research 24(1): 87-108.
El Refaie, E. (2010) ‘Subjective time in David B’s graphic memoir Epileptic’, Studies in Comics 1(2): 281-299.
El Refaie, E. (2010) ‘Visual modality versus authenticity: The example of autobiographical comics’, Visual Studies 25(2): 162-174.
El Refaie, E. and Hörschelmann, K. (2010) ‘Young people’s readings of a political cartoon and the concept of multimodal literacy’, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 31(2): 195-207.
El Refaie, E. (2009) ‘Multiliteracies: How readers interpret political cartoons’, Visual Communication 8(2): 181-205.
El Refaie, E. (2005) ‘“Our purebred ethnic compatriots”: Subversive irony in newspaper journalism’, Journal of Pragmatics 37(6): 781-797.
El Refaie, E. (2004) ‘Dramatist with a talent for dramatisation: Elfriede Jelinek’s manipulation of the media’, German Life and Letters 57(3): 327-341.
El Refaie, E. (2004) ‘Competing discourses about Austria’s Nazi past and racist bomb attacks in the 1990s’, Journal of Contemporary European Studies 12(2): 215-230.
El Refaie, E. (2003) ‘Understanding visual metaphor: The example of newspaper cartoons’, Visual Communication 2(1): 75-96.
El Refaie, E. (2002) ‘Keeping the truce? Austrian press politics between the “July-Agreement” (1936) and the Anschluss (1938)’, German History 20(1): 44-66.
El Refaie, E. (2001) ‘Metaphors we discriminate by: Naturalised themes in Austrian newspaper articles about asylum seekers’, Journal of Sociolinguistics 5(3): 352-371.
Chapters in books
El Refaie, E. (2009) ‘Metaphor in political cartoons: Exploring audience responses’, in C. Forceville and E. Urios-Aparisi (eds.) Multimodal Metaphor. Berlin, New York: Mouton-de Gruyter: 173-196.
El Refaie, E. (2009) ‘What makes us laugh? Verbo-visual humour in newspaper cartoons’, in E. Ventola and J. A. Moya Guijarro (eds.) The World Told and the World Shown: Multisemiotic Issues. London, New York: Palgrave: 75-89.
El Refaie, L. (2006) ‘The Austrian tabloid newspaper Neue Kronen Zeitung and its campaigns against people who “foul their own nest”’, in J. H. Brinks, S. Rock, E. Timms (eds.) Nationalist Myths and Modern Media: Contested Identities in the Age of Globalization. London: Tauris: 173-186.
El Refaie, E. (2005) ‘Strangers in Schengen Europe: Discursive constructions of refugees in Austrian newspaper texts and images’, in J.G. Partridge (ed.) Getting into German: Multidisciplinary Linguistic Approaches. Bern: Peter Lang Verlag: 219-243.
Research
A recently completed British Academy funded research project, Editorial Cartoons and Geopolitical Perceptions, conducted in collaboration with Kathrin Hörschelmann from Durham University, explored young British people’s interpretations of newspaper cartoons. I am currently writing a book on autobiographical comics.
Biography
I am originally from Vienna, where I studied Communication and Journalism and worked for several newspapers and news agencies. I wrote my PhD thesis at Bradford University on metaphors in newspaper articles about asylum seekers, and then taught at Plymouth University for four years.
Teaching interests
I am currently teaching Introduction to Human Communication (SE1107), Visual Communication (SE1373), and an MA module in Multimodality (SET010).