Bojana Petric
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Prior to joining Birkbeck in 2015, I worked at the University of Essex (2007-2015), Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (2005-2007), Central European University in Budapest (1999-2004) and University of Novi Sad in Serbia (1993-1999). I also worked on numerous EAP and ESP projects in Hungary, Russia, Serbia and Turkey as an academic writing and English language teacher, course designer and materials developer.
I have served as Book Review and Associate Editor for the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, as Deputy Chair and Board member of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), the leader of the ‘Academic Literacies’ research team within the ‘European Literacy Network’ COST (European Cooperation in Science & Technology) Action IS140, and was one of the founding members of the Professional, Academic and Work-Based Literacies (PAWBL) SIG within BAAL.
Qualifications
- PhD, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
- MA, University of Belgrade, Serbia
- Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy
- BA, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Professional memberships
Editorial Board Member, Journal of English for Academic Purposes
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of International Students
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Second Language Writing
Member of the Editorial Review Board, International Exchanges on the Study of Writing book series, The WAC Clearinghouse/Parlor Press
Treasurer/Member of Committee, SIG Professional, Academic and Work-Based Literacies, BAAL
Member of AHRC Peer Review College (2017-2020)
Member of BAAL (British Association for Applied Linguistics); EATAW (European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing); BALEAP
ORCID
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Research
Research
Research interests
- L2/multilingual students’ academic literacy practices and experiences, particularly their citation practices, source use, writer voice, disciplinary socialisation and interdisciplinarity;
- Developmental perspectives on students’ writing and writing pedagogy;
- Historical studies of academic genres and textual features
- Writing for local/international publication by multilingual scholars
- The ways in which the institutional, social, historical and political contexts of writing and issues of self- and other-positioning affect writers and shape their texts.
Research Centres and Institutes
- Member of the Advisory Board, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research
- Centre for Multilingual and Multicultural Research
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students who are interested in undertaking research in any of my areas of research interest. I particularly welcome proposals for PhD projects in the following areas:
- L2/Multilingual academic literacies, particularly source use and citing
- L2/Multilingual writer voice and identity
- Ethnographically-oriented studies of writing for international publication
- Case studies of multilingual writers
- Written academic discourse (genre analysis of student and published writing, cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural studies)
- EAP/ESP (teachers, students, materials)
I have supervised 10 doctoral projects to completion. Recently completed doctoral studies under my supervision include:
- Science in exile: EAL academic literacies development of established Syrian academics
- Emotions and motivation in context: A multiple case study of high school students learning Enlish as a foreign language in Romania
- A cross-cultural comparison of evaluation in classical concert reviews in British and Hong Kong newspapers
- Written corrective feedback at a Saudi university: English language teachers' beliefs, students' preferences, and teachers' practices
- A comparative genre analysis of English and Arabic research article introductions in the field of education: Textual features, writers' perspectives, and writing contexts
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Ono, M. and Petric, Bojana (2023) Direct quotations in the rhetorical structure of literature PhD thesis introductions. English Text Construction 15 (1), pp. 30-67. ISSN 1874-8767.
- Khuder, Baraa and Petrić, Bojana (2023) Intersectionality of marginalisation: EAL academics in exile writing for international publication. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development ISSN 1747-7557.
- Khuder, B. and Petrić, Bojana (2022) Helping EAL academics navigate asymmetrical power relations in co-authorship: research-based materials for ERPP workshops. Writing & Pedagogy 14 (1), pp. 1-21. ISSN 1756-5847.
- Khuder, B. and Petrić, Bojana (2022) Academic texts in motion: a text history study of co-authorship interactions in writing. Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes 3 (1), pp. 53-79. ISSN 2590-0994.
- Skoufaki, S. and Petrić, Bojana (2021) Exploring polysemy in the Academic Vocabulary List: a lexicographic study. Journal of English for Academic Purposes 54 (101038), ISSN 1475-1585.
- Skoufaki, Sophia and Petrić, Bojana (2021) Academic vocabulary in an EAP course: Opportunities for incidental learning from printed teaching materials developed in-house.. English for Specific Purposes 63, pp. 71-85. ISSN 0889-4906.
- Khuder, Baraa and Petrić, Bojana (2020) Academic socialisation through collaboration: textual interventions in supporting exiled scholars’ academic literacies development. Education and Conflict Review 3, pp. 24-28.
- Harwood, N. and Petrić, Bojana (2020) Adaptive master's dissertation supervision: a longitudinal case study. Teaching in Higher Education 25 (1), pp. 68-83. ISSN 1356-2517.
- Harwood, N. and Petrić, Bojana (2019) Helping international master’s students navigate dissertation supervision: research-informed discussion and awareness-raising activities. Journal of International Students 9 (1), pp. 150-171. ISSN 2166-3750.
- Pavelescu, L.M. and Petrić, Bojana (2018) Love and enjoyment in context: four case studies of adolescent EFL learners. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching 8 (1), pp. 73-101. ISSN 2083-5205.
- Petrić, Bojana (2015) What next for research on plagiarism? Continuing the dialogue. Journal of Second Language Writing 30, pp. 107-108. ISSN 1060-3743.
- Pecorari, D. and Petrić, Bojana (2014) Plagiarism in second-language writing. Language Teaching 47 (3), pp. 269-302. ISSN 0261-4448.
- Petrić, Bojana and Harwood, N. (2013) Task requirements, task representation, and self-reported citation functions: an exploratory study of a successful L2 student’s writing. Journal of English for Academic Purposes 12 (2), pp. 110-124. ISSN 1475-1585.
- Petrić, Bojana (2012) Legitimate textual borrowing: direct quotation in L2 student writing. Journal of Second Language Writing 21, pp. 102-117. ISSN 1060-3743.
- Harwood, N. and Petrić, Bojana (2012) Performance in the citing behavior of two student writers. Written Communication 29 (1), pp. 55-103. ISSN 0741-0883.
- Petrić, Bojana (2007) Rhetorical functions of citations in high- and low-rated master's theses. Journal of English for Academic Purposes 6 (3), pp. 238-253. ISSN 1475-1585.
- Petrić, Bojana (2007) 'This English writing thing': students' perceptions of their writing experiences at an English-medium university. Porta Linguarum 7, pp. 45-55. ISSN 1697-7467.
- Petrić, Bojana (2006) History textbooks in Serbia after 2000: signs of educational change?. Internationale Schulbuchforschung 28 (2), pp. 177-196. ISSN 0172-8237.
- Petrić, Bojana (2005) Contrastive rhetoric in the writing classroom: a case study. English for Specific Purposes 24 (2), pp. 213-228. ISSN 0889-4906.
- Petrić, Bojana (2004) A pedagogical perspective on plagiarism. NovELTy 11 (1), pp. 4-18. ISSN 1218-537X.
- Petrić, Bojana and Czárl, B. (2004) Validating a writing strategy questionnaire. System 31 (2), pp. 187-215. ISSN 0346-251X.
- Petrić, Bojana (2002) Students' attitudes towards writing and the development of academic writing skills. The Writing Center Journal 22 (2), pp. 9-27. ISSN 0889-6143.
Book
- Bahun, S. and Petrić, Bojana, eds. (2018) Thinking home: interdisciplinary dialogues. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350150874.
- Harwood, N. and Petrić, Bojana (2017) Experiencing Master’s supervision: perspectives of international students and their supervisors. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138929807.
- Petrić, Bojana (2006) Rečnik obrazovne reforme. Novi Sad, Serbia: Pedagoški zavod Vojvodine. ISBN 9788685869112.
Book Review
- Petrić, Bojana (2012) Plagiarism, Intellectual Property and the Teaching of L2 Writing, Joel Bloch.
- Petrić, Bojana (2006) An introduction to language policy: theory and method.
- Petrić, Bojana (2005) 'Global Issues'. Ricardo Sampedro and Susan Hillyard.
Book Section
- Petrić, Bojana and Harwood, N. (2023) Tracing changes in the citing practices of a master’s student: a longitudinal case study. In: Wette, R. (ed.) Teaching and Learning Source-Based Writing. Current Perspectives and Future Directions. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 27-47. ISBN 9781032252346. (In Press)
- Harwood, N. and Petrić, Bojana (2023) English for academic purposes. In: Wei, L. and Hua, Zhu and Simpson, J. (eds.) Handbook of Applied Linguistics 2nd Edition. Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780367536220.
- Khuder, B. and Petrić, Bojana (2021) Walking on thin ice: reflexivity in doing ethnography. In: Guillén, I. and Bocanegra, A. (eds.) Ethnographies of Academic Writing Research: Theory, methods, and interpretation. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins. pp. 105-123. ISBN 9789027210067. (In Press)
- Bahun, S. and Petrić, Bojana (2018) Introduction: homing in on home. In: Bahun, S. and Petrić, Bojana (eds.) Thinking Home: Interdisciplinary Dialogues. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781350150874.
- Petrić, Bojana (2014) English-medium journals in Serbia: editors' perspectives. In: Bennett, K. (ed.) The Semiperiphery of Academic Writing: Discourses, Communities and Practices. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 189-209. ISBN 9781137351180.
- Petrić, Bojana (2011) Scholarly criticism in a small academic community: a diachronic study of book reviews in the oldest Serbian journal. In: Salager-Meyer, F. and Lewin, B.A. (eds.) Crossed words: Criticism in scholarly writing. Linguistic Insights. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang. pp. 309-337. ISBN 9783034300490.
- Petrić, Bojana (2010) Students’ conceptions of voice in academic writing. In: Lorés-Sanz, R. and Mur-Dueňas, P. and Lafuente-Millán, E. (eds.) Constructing Interpersonality: Multiple Perspectives on Written Academic Genres. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 325-336. ISBN 9781443819817.
- Petrić, Bojana (2010) “The last morning in my home town”. Children’s writing in 1917. In: Meda, J. and Montino, D. and Sani, R. (eds.) School Exercise Books: A Complex Source for a History of the Approach to Schooling and Education in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Edizioni Polistampa. pp. 1479-1493. ISBN 9788859607243.
- Petrić, Bojana (2009) “I thought I was an Easterner; it turns out I am a Westerner!”: EIL migrant teacher identities. In: Sharifian, F. (ed.) English as an International Language: Perspectives and Pedagogical Issues. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. ISBN 9781847691224.
- Petrić, Bojana (2006) Interdisciplinarity and writer identity: students' views and experiences. In: Kiely, Robert and Clibbon, G. and Rea-Dickins, P. and Woodfield, H. (eds.) Language, culture, and identity in applied linguistics. London, UK: Equinox Publishing Ltd. pp. 119-131. ISBN 9781845532192.
Editorial
- Petric, Bojana and i Solé, Cristina Ros and Holmes, P. (2023) Belonging and home-making in the internationalised campus. London Review of Education UCL Press. ISSN 1474-8479.
- Petrić, Bojana and Gustafsson, M. (2016) Editorial: selected papers from the 8th conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing. Journal of Academic Writing 6 (1), pp. ii-vi. EATAW. ISSN 2225-8973.
Other
- Petric, Bojana and i Solé, Cristina Ros and Holmes, P. (2023) Edited special issue of London Review of Education: Belonging and home-making in the internationalised campus. London, UK: UCL Press.