Dr Helen Ringrow
Biography
I am Associate Professor in Contemporary Discourse. I have a PhD from Queen’s University Belfast, where I researched how ideals about femininity and the female body are constructed in French and English cosmetics advertisements. I am the author of The Language of Cosmetics Advertising (Palgrave, 2016) and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion (2023) and Contemporary Media Stylistics (Bloomsbury, 2020).
Research interests
My research interests include:
- advertising language
- social and traditional media language
- language, gender & religion
- online communities
- language & social justice/inequality
I have a research background in Critical Discourse Analysis and Stylistics.
Research outputs
2025
The impossibility of being a woman: gendered expectations and rhetorical appeals in Barbie
Ringrow, H.
28 Nov 2025, In: Iperstoria
Research output: Article
Unhinged consumerism or aspirational organisation? A critical discourse analysis of restock videos
Riboni, G., Ringrow, H.
8 May 2025, In: Discourse & Society
Research output: Article
2024
‘Ireland’s hidden diaspora’: multimodal stylistic constructions of journey and landscape on the Irish abortion trail
Ringrow, H., Statham, S.
18 Dec 2024, In: Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines: CADAAD. 16, 2, p. 51-69
Research output: Article
2023
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion
Pihlaja, S., Ringrow, H.
14 Dec 2023,
Research output: Book
Religion in the discourse of abortion
Ringrow, H., Statham, S.
13 Dec 2023,
Research output: Chapter (peer-reviewed)
2022
Disnarration and the performance of storytelling in folklore and evermore
Harrison, C., Ringrow, H.
6 Nov 2022, In: International Journal of Literary Linguistics. 11, 1, 22p.
Research output: Article
‘Wrap our arms around them here in Ireland’: social media campaigns in the Irish abortion referendum
Statham, S., Ringrow, H.
1 Jul 2022, In: Discourse & Society. 33, 4, p. 539–557, 19p.
Research output: Article
2021
Identity
Ringrow, H.
1 Jul 2021,
Research output: Chapter (peer-reviewed)
2020
Some new shit: 'tis the damn season: Taylor Swift's evermore
Ringrow, H.
23 Dec 2020, In: Post45
Research output: Article
“This is a sponsored post, but all opinions are my own”: advertising (re)tellings on social media
Ringrow, H.
10 Dec 2020,
Research output: Chapter (peer-reviewed)