Jeannette Littlemore

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Jeannette Littlemore is a British scholar who studies English and applied linguistics. Her work looks at figurative language, like metaphors and metonymy, and how people learning English understand it. She earned a PhD in English Language Teaching from Thames Valley University in 1998. Since 1999 she has worked at the University of Birmingham, after teaching in Brussels, Saitama (Japan), and Santander (Spain). She was the Head of the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at Birmingham and is now a Professor there. In 2016 she became Distinguished Professor at the Open University of Hong Kong’s Research Institute for Bilingual Learning and Teaching, where she mentors researchers. She sits on the international advisory board of Metaphor Lab Amsterdam. In 2014 she, with Paula Perez-Sobrino and David Houghton, won a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship worth £138,981 for the EMMA project, which studies multimodal metaphor and metonymy in advertising and looks at responses to video ads from English, Spanish, and Chinese speakers.