Arran Stibbe

Arran Stibbe is Professor of Ecological Linguistics at the University of Gloucestershire, Gloucester, England. He is the founder of the International Ecolinguistics Association, which has more than 1100 members. Stibbe’s scholarship focuses on how language makes us who we are as people, and the role of language in building the kind of society we live in. He has analyzed the discursive construction of health, illness, animals, masculinity, the environment, and disability.

His areas of teaching include communication for leadership, language and ethics, identity. ecolinguistics, and critical discourse analysis. He has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship for excellence in teaching. In collaboration with his students, Stibbe developed and produced the free online course The Stories we live by. He is currently developing a sequel to that course: New stories to live by.