I conduct research on a range of topics in applied linguistics, spanning contrastive linguistics, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, English-medium instruction, language pedagogies, metadiscourse, public-oriented research communication, and academic communication, register studies, TESOL, translation. See my publications below.
Books and Edited Collections
Brookes, G., Curry, N., & Love, R. (Eds.) (2026). Applications of corpus linguistics: Established and emergent contexts. Cambridge University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009382007
Brookes, G., Curry, N., McEnery, T., & Putland, E. (Eds.) (2025). Historical medical discourse: Corpus linguistic perspectives. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003467014
Curry, N. (2021). Academic writing and reader engagement: Contrasting questions in English, French and Spanish corpora. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429322921
Research Articles
Curry, N. (accepted). Contrastive discourse analysis. International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (3e). PDF available here.
Curry, N. (accepted). Corpus linguistics and contrastive linguistics. International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (3e). PDF available here.
Curry, N., & Pérez-Paredes, P. (2025). Exploring public-oriented research communication: A register perspective. Register Studies, 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1075/rs.25008.cur. PDF available here.
Curry, N., McEnery, T., & Brookes, G. (2025). A question of alignment – AI, GenAI and applied linguistics. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 45, 315-336. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0267190525000017. PDF available here.
Curry, N., & McEnery, T. (2025). Corpus linguistics for language teaching and learning: A research agenda. Language Teaching, 58(2), 232-251 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444824000430. PDF available here.
Pérez-Paredes, P., Curry N., & Aguado Jiménez, P. (2025). Integrating critical corpus and AI literacies in applied linguistics: A mixed-methods study. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/09588221.2025.2569351. PDF available here.
Pérez-Paredes, P., Curry N., & Ordoñana-Guillamón, C. (2025). Critical AI literacy for applied linguistics and language education students. Journal of China Computer-Assisted Language Learning, 5(1), 1-40. https://doi.org/10.1515/jccall-2025-0005. PDF available here.
Zannini, L., & Curry, N. (2025). Climate adaptation in public-oriented research communication. Critical Discourse Studies, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2025.2519243. PDF available here.
Curry, N. (2024). Questioning the climate crisis: A contrastive analysis of parascientific discourses. Nordic Journal of English Studies, 23(2), 235-267. https://doi.org/10.35360/njes.v23i2.39190. PDF available here.
Curry, N., Baker, P., & Brookes, G. (2024). Generative AI for corpus approaches to discourse studies: A critical evaluation of ChatGPT. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 4(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acorp.2023.100082. PDF available here.
Curry, N., & Mark, G. (2024). Using corpus linguistics in materials development and teacher education. Second Language Teacher Education, 2(2), 187-208. https://doi.org/10.1558/slte.25727. PDF available here.
Brookes, G., & Curry, N. (2024). The changing discourses on Islamophobia in the UK press: A modern-diachronic corpus-assisted study. Journal of Corpus and Discourse Studies, 7, 101-124. https://doi.org/10.18573/jcads.128 PDF available here.
Pérez-Paredes, P., & Curry, N. (2024). Epistemologies of corpus linguistics across disciplines. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 3(3), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100141. PDF available here.
Curry, N. (2023). How should digital tools for writing be evaluated? Reflections from digital pedagogies and applied linguistics. Journal of Academic Writing, 13(1), 53-58. https://doi.org/10.18552/joaw.v13i1.970. PDF available here.
Curry, N., Kasparkova, A., Ganobcsik-Williams, L., & Gustafsson, M. (2023). Editorial: Thinking outside the academic writing box. Journal of Academic Writing, 13(1), ii-v. https://doi.org/10.18552/joaw.v10i1.968. PDF available here.
Curry, N. (2023). Question illocutionary force indicating devices in academic writing: A corpus-pragmatic and contrastive approach to identifying and analysing direct and indirect questions in English, French, and Spanish. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 28(1), 91-119. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.20065.cur. PDF available here.
Curry, N. (2023). [Review of the book Fundamental principles of corpus linguistics, by T. McEnery, & Brezina, V.] International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 28(2), 278-283. doi: https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.00052.cur. PDF available here.
Cheded, M., Curry, N., Hopkinson, G., & Gilchrist, A. (2023). Managing precarity at the intersection of individual and collective life: A membership categorisation analysis of conflict and tensions in an online biosocial community. Organization, 30(1), 42-64. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084221131643. PDF available here.
Curry, N., Love, R., & Goodman, O. (2022). Adverbs on the move: Investigating publisher application of corpus research on recent language change to ELT coursebook development. Corpora, 17(1), 1-38. https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2022.0233. PDF available here.
Ganobcsik-Williams, L., Curry, N., & Neculai, C. (2022). Academic writing in times of crisis: Refashioning writing tutor development for online environments. Journal of Academic Writing, 12(1), 10-21. https://doi.org/10.18552/joaw.v12i1.887. PDF available here.
Love, R., Brookes, G., & Curry, N. (2022). BAAL/CUP seminar: “Corpora in applied linguistics: Broadening the agenda”. Language Teaching, 55(1), 139-141. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444821000331. PDF available here.
Curry, N., & Pérez-Paredes, P. (2021). Stance nouns in COVID-19 related blog posts: A contrastive analysis of blog posts published in The Conversation in Spain and the UK. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 26(4), 469-497. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.21080.cur. PDF available here.
Curry, N. (2021). Developing learners as global citizens: Reflections on the affordances of digital pedagogies in language education. ACROSS – A Comprehensive Review of Societal Studies, 4(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.35219/across.2021.4.1.03. PDF available here.
Love, R., & Curry, N. (2021). Recent change in modality in informal spoken British English: 1990s – 2010s. English Language and Linguistics, 25(3), 537-562. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674321000265. PDF available here.
Curry, N. (2019). Learners as models: The pedagogical value of near peer role models. Speak Out! Journal of the IATEFL Pronunciation Special Interest Group, 60, 34-43. PDF available here.
Curry, N., & Chambers, A. (2017). Questions in English and French research articles in linguistics: A corpus-based contrastive analysis. Corpus Pragmatics, 1(4), 327-350. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41701-017-0012-0. PDF available here.
Book Chapters and Reports
Curry, N., & Riordan, E. (accepted). Online language learning and English for academic purposes. In Hyland, K., & Thompson, P. (ed.) The Routledge handbook of English for academic purposes (2e). Routledge. PDF available here.
Curry, N. (accepted). Intersecting discourses of death and the climate crisis. In Galasiński D, & Ziółkowska J., (Eds.), The Bloomsbury handbook of language and death (pp. 353-368). Bloomsbury. PDF available here.
Dong M., Fang A. C., & Curry N. (accepted). Corpus-based contrastive linguistics. In Mahlberg M., Brookes G., & Curry, N. (Eds.), Bloomsbury handbook of corpus linguistics. Bloomsbury. PDF available here.
Curry, N., Mark, G., Lee, H., McEnery, T., Burton, G., Clark, T., & Shin, D. (2026) Applying corpus research indirectly to language teaching materials and assessment development. In Brookes, G., Curry, N. & Love, R., (Eds.), Applications of corpus linguistics: Established and emergent contexts (pp. 105-129). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009382007.006 PDF available here.
Hanks, E., Curry, N. , Sharp, E., Brookes, G., & McEnery, T. (2026). Expressivity and corpus linguistics. In Gutzmann, D., & Turgay, K. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Expressivity (pp. 426-446). Oxford University Press, Oxford. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198869450.013.0031 PDF available here.
Brookes, G., Curry, N. & Love, R. (2026). Applying corpus linguistics. In Brookes, G., Curry, N. & Love, R., (Eds.), Applications of corpus linguistics: Established and emergent contexts (pp. 1-13). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009382007.001 PDF available here.
Curry, N., & Brookes, G. (2025). The discursive framing of the climate and health polycrisis in English, French and Spanish. In Parnell T, Van Hout T, & Del Fante D. (Eds.), Critical approaches to polycrisis: Discourses of conflict, migration, risk and climate (pp. 309-334). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76966-5_12. PDF available here.
Brookes, G., Curry, N., McEnery, T., & Putland, E. (2025). Corpora and the study of historical medical discourse. InBrookes, G., Curry, N., McEnery, T., & Putland, E. (Eds.). Historical medical discourse: Corpus linguistic perspectives. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003467014-1 PDF available here.
Pérez-Paredes, P., & Curry, N. (2025). Corpus Linguistics and LSP. In Roelcke T., Breeze R., & Engberg J. (Eds.), Handbook of specialized communication (pp. 407-432). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672633-020 PDF available here.
Pérez-Paredes, P., & Curry, N. (2025). Análisis de corpus y EFE. In Lafford BA, Ferreira Cabrera A., Arnó Maciá E. (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of Spanish for specific purposes (pp. 75-89). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003057604-7 PDF available here.
Curry, N., & McEnery, T. (2024). The past, present, and future of corpus and translation studies. In Li D, Corbett J. (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of corpus translation studies. (pp. 1-8). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003184454-1. PDF available here.
Curry, N., & Pérez-Paredes, P. (2023). Using corpus linguistics and grounded theory to explore EMI stakeholders’ discourse. In S. Curle, & Pun, J. K. H. (eds.). Qualitative research methods in English medium instruction for emerging researchers: Theory and case studies of contemporary research (pp. 45-61). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003375531-5. PDF available here.
Curry, N. (2023). Afterword. In M. Leedham, C. Tagg, & Tuck, J. (eds.), Online pedagogy and the student experience: Teaching applied linguistics and beyond (pp. 180-184). McGraw-Hill. PDF available here.
McCallum, L., & Curry, N. (2023). Complexity, accuracy and fluency in writing. In Mohebbi, H. (ed.), Insights into teaching and learning writing: A practical guide for early-career teachers (pp. 27-44). Castledown Publishing. https://doi.org/10.29140/9781914291159. PDF available here.
Pérez-Paredes, P., & Curry, N. (2023). Exploring the internationalisation and glocalisation constructs in EMEMUS lecturers’ interviews and focus groups. In E. Dafouz, & Smit, U. (eds.), Researching English-medium higher education (pp. 92-116). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003193852-6. PDF available here.
Curry, N. (2022). Digital pedagogy and language teaching and learning – from research to practice. In Watkins, P. (ed.), The better learning research review (pp. 103-109). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009152167.017. PDF available here.
Curry, N. (2022). On contrastive analysis and language pedagogy: Reimagining applications for contemporary English language teaching. In McCallum, L. (ed.), English language teaching in the European Union: Policy and practice across the European Union (pp. 239-256). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2152-0_14. PDF available here.
Curry, N., Clarke, J., & Vincent, B. (2021). Ponying the slovos: A parallel linguistic analysis of translations of A Clockwork Orange. In Campbell, I., (ed.), Science fiction in translation (pp. 165-188). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84208-6_9. PDF available here.
Curry, N., & Riordan, E. (2021). Intelligent CALL systems for writing development: Investigating the use of Write and Improve for developing written language and writing skill. In K. Kelch, P. Byun, S. Cervantes, &. Safavi, S. (eds.), CALL theory applications for online TESOL education (pp. 252-273). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6609-1.ch011. PDF available here.
Curry, N., & Pérez-Paredes, P. (2021). Understanding lectures’ practices and processes: An investigation of English medium education in a Spanish multilingual university. In M. L. Carrió-Pastor, & Bellés-Fortuño, B., (eds.), Teaching language and content in multicultural and multilingual classrooms (pp. 123-156). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56615-9_6. PDF available here.
Love, R., Brookes, G., & Curry, N. (2021). Reporting from “Corpora in Applied Linguistics: Broadening the Agenda”. BAAL News, 119 (Summer 2021). British Association for Applied Linguistics. https://www.baal.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/BAAL-News-Issue-119.pdf
Curry, N., & Clark, T. (2020). Corpus-informed evaluation of examination criteria for MENA. In L. McCallum, & Coombe, C. (eds.), The assessment of L2 written English across the MENA Region: A synthesis of practice (pp. 359-392). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53254-3_15. PDF available here.
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