Sandrine Sorlin is Professor of English language and linguistics. Previously at Aix-Marseille University (from 2013 to 2018), she is now a professor at University Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3 (where she was a senior lecturer from 2007 to 2013).
She is an honorary fellow member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
Specialized in stylistics and pragmatics, she has published books on linguistic defamiliarisation in English literature (La Défamiliarisation linguistique dans le roman anglais contemporain, PULM, 2010) and on language and authority in a historical perspective (Langage et autorité: de l’ordre linguistique à la force dialogique, PUR, 2012).
She is also the author of a handbook of stylistics (La Stylistique anglaise. Théories et Pratiques, PUR, 2014), the co-editor of The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns with Laure Gardelle (John Benjamins, 2015) and The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter with Manuel Jobert (John Benjamins, 2018)
She has published a monograph on an American political TV series (Language and Manipulation in House of Cards: A Pragma-Stylistic Perspective, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) for which she received an award from the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE book award 2018).
She is the current chair of the Société de Stylistique Anglaise (http://stylistique-anglaise.org/home/)