Elise Westin
Student Experience
Division of Academic and Student Engagement
Elise Westin has an MA in Applied Linguistics and is currently completing a PhD in Central and East European Literature with a research focus on the ways in which cultural memory and trauma can be understood through the literary representations of victims in Holodomor survivor literature. As a third generation survivor of the Ukrainian Holodomor, she is interested in the ways in which cultural memory and trauma both shape, and are shaped by, discourse. She currently teaches at the University of Adelaide and Adelaide Institute of Higher Education, and became an alumna of the Genocide and Human Rights University Program in 2019.
Elise Westin has an MA in Applied Linguistics and is currently completing a PhD in Central and East European Literature with a research focus on the ways in which cultural memory and trauma can be understood through the literary representations of victims in Holodomor survivor literature. As a third generation survivor of the Ukrainian Holodomor, she is interested in the ways in which cultural memory and trauma both shape, and are shaped by, discourse. She currently teaches at the University of Adelaide and Adelaide Institute of Higher Education, and became an alumna of the Genocide and Human Rights University Program in 2019.
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2022 - ongoing Learning Advisor Adelaide Institute of Higher Education 2020 - ongoing Course Coordinator + Lecturer Adelaide Institute of Higher Education 2017 - ongoing Learning Advisor The University of Adelaide 2013 - 2015 Senior Editor Tongues Magazine -
Language Competencies
Language Competency English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review French Can read, write, speak and understand spoken Polish Can read and write Russian Can read and write Spanish; Castilian Can read, write, speak and understand spoken Ukrainian Can read and write -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2012 - 2015 University of Adelaide Australia Master of Arts 2007 - 2011 University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Development Studies (Honours in Anthropology) 2007 - 2010 University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of International Studies -
Postgraduate Training
Date Title Institution Country 2019 - 2019 Genocide and Human Rights University Program Zoryan Institute Canada -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2019 Febrianti, Y., Westin, E., Vu, T., & Yang, J. (2019). Non-native and native speakers’ casual conversations: A comparative study of involvement and humour. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 27(3), 1525-1540. -
Books
Year Citation 2017 Lopez, E., & Mickan, P. (Eds.) (2017). Text-Based Research and Teaching: A Social Semiotic Perspective on Language in Use. Palgrave Macmillan UK.
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Book Chapters
Year Citation 2015 Lopez, E. (2015). The Couple in the Woods: Fragments of a Memoir. In H. Scheuerer (Ed.), Kindling Volume II (pp. 1-11). Sydney: Writer's Edit Press. 2015 Lopez, E. (2015). A study of emic proportions: contextualising phraseological false friends. In J. Szerszunowicz, B. Nowowiejski, P. Ishida, & K. Yagi (Eds.), Intercontinental Dialogue on Phraseology 3: Linguo-Cultural Research on Phraseology (Vol. 3, pp. 197-210). Bialystok: University of Bialystok.
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Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) Research Grant |
2019 |
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Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) Fellowship to attend the Genocide and Human Rights University Program in Toronto |
2019
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Elise is a learning advisor at the Writing Centre, where she teaches students one-on-one and in groups, develops teaching materials for preparation for students undertaking the LANTITE test, and helps students from different linguistic backgrounds to improve their English.
Elise is a learning advisor at Adelaide Institute of Higher Education, where she also lectures first year business students in a contextualised English for Academic Purposes course. Her TESOL research has been published in multiple journals, as well Text-Based Research and Teaching: A Social Semiotic Perspective on Language in Use, which was co-edited with Dr Peter Mickan.
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Memberships
Date Role Membership Country 2017 - ongoing Member LCNAU (Languages & Cultures Network for Australian Universities) Australia 2017 - 2018 Member International Systemic Functional Linguistics Association - 2017 - ongoing Member ASFLA (Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association) Australia
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