Stamatina Katsiveli-Siachou

Profile

Stamatina Katsiveli-Siachou is a PhD candidate at Queen Mary University of London. Her current research, funded by a full QMUL research studentship, focuses on sexual identity construction in talk-in-interaction and the way it is related to national identity. On a second level the project examines the extent to which speakers’ place is important to their sexual/national identifications.

Thesis title: The interrelation between sexual and national identity construction in talk: evidence from Greek LGBTQI communities in Greece and in the UK

Supervisors: Erez Levon and Colleen Cotter

Research

Research Interests:

• sociolinguistics
• conversation analysis
• gender and sexuality
• language and identity
• intersectionality
• language and place
• Greek national identity