Research interests
- Academic discourse
- Analysing how new knowledge is created and disseminated through scholarly genres.
- Critical discourse analysis
- Analysing how language use contributes to social, political, and economic issues.
- Economic discourse
- Analysing how language is used to communicate economic theories and phenomena.
- Gender and language
- Analysing how language use relates to and expresses gender and sexuality.
- Religious discourse
- Analysing communication within religious institutions.
- Scholarship of Educational Leadership
- Analysing how educational leaders effect change in the tertiary sector.
- Sustainability discourses
- Analysing communication around sustainability by performing arts organisations, governments, and community groups.
Publications
- van Enk, Anneke and Power, Kate (2017) What is a research article?: genre variability and data selection in genre research. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 29 1-11. doi:10.1016/j.jeap.2017.07.002
- Power, Kate (2016) Book review: Christopher Hart and Piotr Cap (eds), Contemporary Critical Discourse Studies. Discourse and Society, 27 6: 582-585.
- Power, Kate (2016). Charity chicks: a discourse-analytic study of religious self-identification by rural Canadian Mormon women. In Becky R. Lee and Terry Tak-ling Woo (Ed.), Canadian women shaping diasporic religious identities (pp. 139-194) Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press.
- Power, Kate (2015) Book review: Jodie Clark, Language, Sex and Social Structure: Analyzing Discourses of SexualityClarkJodie, Language, Sex and Social Structure: Analyzing Discourses of Sexuality. Discourse & Society, 26 4: 511-513. doi:10.1177/0957926515591689e
- Kotwal, Ashok and Power, Kate (2015) Eating words: a discourse historical analysis of the public debate over India’s 2013 National Food Security Act. On the Horizon, 23 3: 174-189. doi:10.1108/OTH-05-2015-0019
- Power, Kate (2015). Religion, power and public self-presentation. In Allyson Jule (Ed.), Shifting visions: gender and discourses (pp. 49-68) Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Power, Kate (2014). Talking sexuality: religious identity constructions in rural Canada. In Heather Shipley (Ed.), Globalized religion and sexual identity: contexts, contestations, voices (pp. 62-85) Leiden, Germany: Brill.
- Power, Kate (2012) Investigating religious “identity”: the promise and problem of discourse analytic methods for religious studies inquiries. Fieldwork in Religion, 8 1: 7-26. doi:10.1558/firn.v8i1.7
- Power, Kate (2012) Book review: Lesbian discourses: images of a community. Critical Discourse Studies, 9 1: 95-97. doi:10.1080/17405904.2011.637686
- Power, Kate (2007) Book Review of Ian S. Markham, A Theology of Engagement. Challenges in ContemporaryTheology. Series Editors: Gareth Jones and Lewis Ayres. Malden, MA,Blackwell Publishing, 2003, pp. 264, ISBN 0631236023. Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 20 2: 252.