July - 2020

IGALA Blog

Sharing research about language, gender and sexuality

Welcome to the IGALA blog!

The IGALA blog is a free and open space in which scholars interested in the field of language, gender and sexuality can introduce, discuss and display their research.

People who contribute to the IGALA blog can be at any stage of their career, from any part of the world and write in the language of their choice (providing a translation in English to allow the widest access).

If you carry out research within the field of language, gender and sexuality and you’d like to share it with the IGALA community don’t hesitate to get in touch with the blog coordinator at: angela.zottola@unito.it.

The IGALA blog, in addition to traditional blog entries, also welcomes contributions in the form of:

Commentary pieces
Research nibs from on-going work
Tributes to language, gender and sexuality scholars
Media analysis
Interviews with experts in the field
Video presentations

In praise of the Editorial

Gender and Language is rarely explicitly fronted with an Editorial. We have Editors’ Annual Profile of Contributors and Decisions Made, ‘Launching studies of Gender and Language in the early 21st Century’ (1/1, 2007), an Editor’s ‘Report on our first year’ (1/2, 2007), the explicitly flagged ‘Editorial: Five years of Gender and Language’ (5/2, 2011), ‘The seventh year of Gender and Language’ (8/1, 2014) and ‘Ten years of Gender and Language’ (10/2, 2016), as well as ‘Editors’