Engaging with Work in English Studies

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.

• Chapter 1: Engaging with Work in Worlds of Change (Alastair Henry and Åke Persson).- Part One: Identities.- Chapter 2: ‘Imagine Being So Suddenly Useless’: Unemployment, Vulnerability and the Irish Financial Crash in Donal Ryan’s The Spinning Heart (Åke Persson).- Chapter 3: Authenticity at Work: English Teachers’ Experiences of Authentic and Inauthentic Acting (Alastair Henry and Sofia Olsén).- Chapter 4: ‘We Do No Harm, We Say What We Want, and We Get Paid for It’: Academic Work and Dignity in Stoner by John Williams (Celia Aijmer Rydsö).- Chapter 5: Working with Identity Work: Supporting Professional Identity Development in Teacher Education (Alastair Henry).- Part Two: Oppositions and Transformations.- Chapter 6: The Superhero and the Tiger Mom: Exploring the Relation Between Parental Expectations and Career Choices in Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew’s The Shadow Hero (Ulrika Andersson Hval).- Chapter 7: Changing English, Changing Challenges: The Work of TeachingEnglish in a Context of Diverse Experiences (Anna Elgemark and Maria Mollstedt).- Chapter 8: Interpreting Children’s Working Lives in James Joyce’s Ulysses (Barry Ryan).- Chapter 9: Global English in the Workplace: Workplace English as a Lingua Franca (WELF) and Successful WELF Users (Hyeseung Jeong).- Chapter 10: From ‘Mayday’ to #MeToo: Workplace Sexual Harassment in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments and The Heart Goes Last (Susanna Rokka).