Mark Nartey is Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the Bristol Centre for Linguistics, University of the West of England. He is an interdisciplinary scholar who specializes in corpus-assisted discourse studies, with a focus on issues at the intersection of language, culture, and society. He has published extensively in applied linguistics, discourse analysis, and communication/media studies. His recent monograph published by Routledge examines the interplay of political myth-making, nationalist resistance, and populist performance.