Elvis Coimbra Gomes

Profile

Elvis is a PhD researcher, funded by the ESRC’s LISS DTP and the Zdenek & Michaela Bakala Foundation. His research focuses on how people who suffer from a pathological doubt about their sexual/gender identity and romantic relationships (these are sub-types of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) use language in online forums. He triangulates corpus-assisted discourse analysis with online ethnographic approaches (netnography) to understand how sufferers' identities are discursively regulated by certain normative beliefs about sexuality, gender and love. He is equally interested in exploring how sufferers metaphorically conceptualize their struggle between their self and their intrusive thoughts that make them doubt their identity.

Supervisors: Erez Levon (QMUL) and Olivia Knapton (KCL)

Research

Research Interests:

• corpus linguistics
• (critical) discourse analysis
• (online) ethnography
• computer-mediated health communication
• gender/queer studies
• anti-genderist discourse

Publications

Coimbra-Gomes, E. (2020). Ego-dystonic stance-taking in sexual orientation obsessive-compulsive disorder (SO-OCD). Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders 27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2020.100576

Coimbra-Gomes, E. & Motschenbacher, H. (2019). Language, Normativity and Sexual Orientation Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (SO-OCD): A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis. Language in Society 48(4): 565-584. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404519000423