Caitlin Hogan

Profile

Project Title: Language, Identity and Community and K-Pop Fandom on Twitter 

Supervisors: Dr Devyani Sharma and Dr Agneiszka Lyons

Previous qualifications:

MRes, Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London – 2021

BA, Linguistics, University of Chicago  -- 2019

Teaching

• Convenor, LISS2115: Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (May-June 2026)
• Convenor, LISS2114: Introduction to Web Scraping (May-June 2026)
• Convenor, LISS2114: Introduction to Web Scraping (April 2025) 
• Convenor, LISS2113: Corpus Analysis and Sketch Engine for Social Scientists (February - March 2025)
• Convenor, Social Media Data Transcription Workshops (January - June 2023) 
• Teaching Associate, LIN101: Language Acquisition (Prof Kathleen McCarthy) (January-April 2022)

Research

Research Interests:

Co-Principal Investigator, Real Talk East London (Queen Mary University of London), 2022-23 (with Johanna Gerwin)

Research Assistant, Concept Analytics Lab (University of Sussex), 2023 – present (P.I.: Justyna Robinson)

Research Assistant, Autistic Adults Online (Queen Mary University of London), 2022 (P.I.: Nelya Koteyko)

Research interests:

Corpus linguistics,

Social media language,

Discourse analysis,

Fan studies,

Corpus-assisted discourse analysis.

Publications

(forthcoming) Hogan, C. (2026). “Feel free to softblock me”: Public Displays of Politeness and Conviviality on Twitter.

Special Issue: Managing conflict and maintaining civility in digital interactions (ed. by Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen and Ylva Biri). Journal of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict.

(forthcoming) Hogan, C. (2026). Korean Regional Dialects as Semiotic Resources in Korean Pop Music. Collected volume. "Language and Pop Music / Sprache und Popmusik" (ed. by Michael Westphal) at Peter Lang in the series "Kieler Forschungen zur Sprachwissenschaft".

Hogan, C. (2025). Softblocking: Disconnective Practices, Imagined Affordances, and Reciprocity on Twitter. Social Media + Society, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251331156

Hogan, C. (2025). K-Pop Fans’ Main and Priv Accounts: Impression Management, Searchability, and Imagined Surveillance on Twitter. Language@Internet, 23, 49–72. https://doi.org/10.14434/li.v23.40283

Robinson, J. A., Winters, L. A., Sandow, R. J., Young, S., & Hogan, C. (2025). ‘We’re saying that we trust them but really we don’t’ Citizen jurors’ discursive framing of trust in international trade policy. Journal of Language and Politics. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24178.rob