Publications

“WTF Uterus?” Metaphors of the body as positioning in infertility blogs by Muslim women

Qualitative Health Research. doi.org/10.1177/10497323261442757

From offline to online stigma resistance: Identity construction in narratives of infertile Muslim women

with L. J. McEntee-Atalianis. Narrative Inquiry, 35(2), 261–294. doi.org/10.1075/ni.23108.alh

Reassurance in the loop: An analytic autoethnography of patient–AI communication during illness and recovery

Health Communication.

Making sense of infertility care: Narrative negotiations of medical authority in Muslim women's online accounts

with L. McEntee-Atalianis. Communication & Medicine.

Discursive self-legitimation and ideological contestation in Muslim women's infertility blogs: A critical discourse analysis

Critical Discourse Studies.

Leaving the TTC world: Closure, transition and the moral management of exit in Muslim women's infertility blogs

Discourse, Context & Media.

Infertility as a heteronormative narrative: Negotiating femininity, wifehood and reproductive womanhood in Muslim women's infertility blogs

Gender and Language.

‘In the same boat’: Affiliation and collective identity in Muslim women's infertility blogs

Journal of Sociolinguistics.

From diagnosis to departure: A staged small-stories method for tracing identity across the infertility journey in Muslim women's blogs

Qualitative Research.

“What is normal now?” Uncertainty and epistemic positioning in online perimenopause narratives

Small-stories and positioning analysis of Reddit discourse.

Polls, Pinterest, and peacekeeping: When a family group chat becomes a design studio, conflict court, and repair tool

In C. Tagg et al. (Eds.), Digital Intimacies (working title), Section 2: Family & Everyday Intimacies. Bloomsbury. Chapter provisionally accepted; collection under proposal.

Digital dialogues of infertility: Gender, identity, and stigma resistance in Muslim women's blogs

BAAL Health & Science Communication SIG, Health and Science Communication: Inequalities, Inclusion and Innovation, Lancaster University, UK.

Invited talks, Birkbeck, University of London

Identity and small-stories analysis (Language and Identity module); doctoral research practice and the viva; narrating infertility and reflections on a Wellcome Trust grant application.

The construction of personal and socio-cultural identities in blogs of infertile Muslim women

ACI 2020 — Critical Approaches to Cultural Identities in the Public Sphere: From Ivory Tower to Social Arena, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France.

“Doctors gave me the ‘unexplained infertility’ label…”: Appraising medical interventions in women's infertility blogs

BAAL Health & Science Communication SIG, University of Brescia, Italy.

From offline to online stigma resistance: Identity construction in narratives of infertile Muslim women

BAAL 2018 Annual Conference, Taking Risks in Applied Linguistics, York St John University, UK.

Narratives of infertile Muslim women: The construction of personal and socio-cultural identities in weblogs

10th International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) Conference, University of Botswana, Gaborone.

From offline to online stigma resistance: Identity construction in narratives of infertile Muslim women

with L. McEntee-Atalianis. BAAL Language and New Media SIG, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. Seminar report →

Narratives of infertile Muslim women: The construction of personal and socio-cultural identities in weblogs

Doctoral dissertation, Birkbeck, University of London.