Marina Cantarutti
Research and Innovation Associate

Profile

Biography

Marina (she/her) is currently a Research and Innovation Associate and full-time investigator on the AHRC-DFG funded project "Breathing behaviour and non-lexical vocalisations in talk-in-interaction”. Marina is a multimodal and interactional linguist who combines the qualitative methods of Conversation Analysis, the Phonetics of Talk-in-Interaction, and Gesture Studies and conducts empirical video studies to research different social practices in interaction. Marina has worked on video- and audio-recorded data of ordinary and institutional interaction and developed sequential and multimodal descriptions of different kinds of interactional practices, including choral productions and co-animation, self-deprecation, gossip, the phonetics of laughter, and disfluency, among others.

Marina has over 20 years of experience in Higher Education, having held several appointments as teaching fellow and lecturer in the UK and in Argentina, teaching in modules on Phonetics and Phonology, Conversation Analysis, Multimodality, Discourse Analysis, TESOL, and English and Spanish as a Foreign Language, at graduate and postgraduate level. Marina has also worked extensively as an EFL teacher and teacher educator, and has been an invited trainer and guest lecturer at different European universities and for Summer/Winter schools, training early-career researchers, senior colleagues, and professionals in research methods for the analysis of phonetics and multimodality more generally in social interaction.

Marina is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA, 2023, AFHEA, 2018) and an awardee of the UoY Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Award (2019).

Career

• Research and Innovation Associate

University of York (2026-2028)

• Lecturer in TESOL and Applied Linguistics

University of Liverpool (September 2025 – February 2026)

• Lecturer in Linguistics

University of York (2022-2025)

• Research Associate

The Open University (2020-2022)

• PhD in Language and Communication

University of York (2020)

• Graduate Teaching Assistant and cover lecturer

University of York (2016-2020)

• Teaching Fellow  (Phonetics and Phonology, Discourse Analysis)

ISP Dr. Joaquín V González (Buenos Aires, Argentina) (2009-2016)

• Teaching Fellow (Phonology)

ENSLV Sofía B de Spangenberg (Buenos Aires, Argentina) (2007-2016)

• Teaching Fellow  (Phonetics and Phonology)

Profesorado del Consudec (2010-2016)

• Module convenor, distance tutor, and area coordinator (Phonetics, English Culture, Literature and Media)

CIBADIST (2007-2013)

• Cover lecturer in Phonetics

Universidad de Belgrano (2013)

Research

Overview

Marina is a researcher on Multimodal and Interactional Linguistics and uses the qualitative and empirical methods of Conversation Analysis, Gesture Studies, and the Phonetics of talk-in-Interaction for the study of video-recorded data in everyday interaction in English(es) and Spanish(es). Marina has worked on collaborative and polyphonic practices in interaction, including anticipatory completions, choral productions, co-animation (i.e. joint enactments), and interjections. Marina has also studied delicate social activities in conversation, such as gossip and self- and other-deprecation. Marina’s versatile research path has also led her to engage in exploratory studies of atypical interaction, including speakers who stutter and people living with aphasia, particularly around the study of repair and disfluency; as well as on the study of breathing for better use of the voice. Marina has collaborated on projects studying the phonetics of human laughter, on how glottalization and linking are important strategies for turn construction, as well as on ethnomethodological studies of human-robot interaction on public streets. She has also contributed to projects using interactional pragmatics to study the discursive construction of morality during the Covid lockdown, practices for ambulant sales on Buenos Aires trains and service encounters in multicultural markets in Spain.

During her time as an EFL teacher educator, Marina’s scholarship work combined Systemic Functional Linguistics and Discourse Intonation to develop frameworks for the description and teaching of intonational configurations in different speech genres. Marina also briefly worked on Classroom Interaction, applying CA methods to the study of "questions" in the classroom.

Marina has presented numerous peer-reviewed papers and posters at conferences all over the world and has been an invited panel member and keynote speaker. Marina’s list of publications can be found in PURE or on her personal website.

Marina is currently a full-time investigator on the AHRC-DFG funded project "Breathing behaviour and non-lexical vocalisations in talk-in-interaction”, led by Prof. Richard Ogden and Dr. Jürgen Trouvain (Saarbrücken).

Teaching

Other teaching

Marina has an extensive teaching career that spans two decades and has been mostly developed in Higher Education institutions both in Argentina and in the UK. Her teaching experience includes teaching and convening modules and courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level, guest lecturing, PhD and MA supervision, PGR training, pre- and in-service teacher training, and CPD courses. Marina has taught on and convened a wide range of modules in the areas of Phonetics and Phonology, Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis and Social Interaction, Multimodality, and English Grammar and Spanish as a FL, among others. Marina has supervised MA and PhD projects on interactional pragmatics and linguistics, bilingualism, multimodality, and prosody.