Munirah A. AlAjlan joined the Department of English Language and Literature in Spring 2022. She obtained her MA from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne researching codeswitching and bilingual identit(ies) construction in computer mediated communication. She holds a PhD from King’s College London in Applied Sociolinguistics. Her PhD research focuses on Small Stories Approach in investigating how female engineering students in Kuwait construct their identities. Drawing primarily on Positioning Theory, she employed an interactional dimension of analysis where level 2 was looked at first, then levels 1 & 3. Prior to pursuing her PhD, AlAjlan published chapters on the non-dominated verities in Kuwait (eds Rudolf Muhr 2013), and the dominated verities in Twitter in Kuwait (eds Rudolf Muhr 2014). In 2019, her PhD research was later funded by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, & Medicine (Washington DC) where she was part of the NASEM group. She has participated in many international conferences where she presented different research on linguistics, sociolinguistics, and political linguistics since 2010. Since she joined DELL, AlAjlan initiated the Poster Day session for the Senior Research Course where students displayed their research ideas. She is the rapporteur of the Cultural Committee for the Academic year 2022/2023, 2023/2024, and 2024/2025.

Research Interest: Language and Politics, Narrative & Discourse Analysis, Translanguaging, Language and Media.